Cees Nooteboom Quotes

As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.

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• I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Would
  • Fragrance
  • Fanatic

• I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Myself

• It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Time
  • Stop

• I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • Real
  • Blues
  • Captain

• I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • House

• I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Character
  • Perfect
  • Just

• I'd like to be curvier.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like

• I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Kids
  • Years
  • Photography

• I worked for half a cent a word. I'm not a fast writer to begin with, so for the first few years I had do other things.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Years
  • First
  • Fast

• The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Good
  • Education
  • Purpose

• I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Up
  • Sports
  • Body

• For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Look
  • Wait
  • Diet

• As an offensive player, you always want to produce and score goals, especially when that's your job on the team.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Job
  • Team
  • Player

• My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Reading

• It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Career
  • Build

• Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • People
  • Today
  • New York

• I want people to realize that they can dream big.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • People
  • Want
  • Dream

• There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

  

  Daniel Bernoulli
  • Knowledge
  • Philosophy

• I have lesbian impulses, so I understand how a man looks at a woman. … When I was growing up, it wasn't possible for me to do anything about my attraction to women. Lesbianism didn't exist in that time, as far as I knew.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• What does it matter if, by following my heart, I also fulfill someone else's plan?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Heart

• I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Being

• If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.

  

  Cees Nooteboom
  • Life
  • World
  • Fashion