Bram van Velde Quotes

I am powerless, helpless. Each time it’s a leap in the dark. A deliberate encounter with the unknown.

Bram van Velde

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• I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Dark

• Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Dark
  • Car
  • DNA

• To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.

  

  Babasaheb
  • People
  • Mind
  • Age

• There's some real dark days where you just feel like the story is falling apart in every one. Just keep moving forward, even when you are bluffing, even when you don't quite know what is going to happen next.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Dark

• Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Dark
  • Now
  • Physical

• One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.

  

  Harriet Van Horne
  • Dark
  • Treasure
  • Searching

• The Dark Satirist, like the Dark Knight - that could be a good name for a superhero.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Good
  • Dark
  • Name

• I am a five-foot six-inch, dark, ordinary-looking man. People didn't imagine that I would make it.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Man
  • Dark

• The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Light
  • Perfect
  • Dark

• Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Powerful
  • Dark

• Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Power
  • Giving

• When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Laughter

• The world is dark and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • World
  • Light
  • Trust

• It’s very nearly 1989 but it’s midnight in the Dark Ages just the thickness of a book away, the thickness of a skull away; just the turn of a page away.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Book
  • Dark

• You can tell By the laugh in the dark at the sound of the bell You can tell It's the nucleus burning inside of the cell…

  

  Aimee Mann
  • Dark

• The great thing about Showtime is that they really give us leeway and the range to explore the real dark side of stuff.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Great
  • Real
  • Dark

• An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

  

  James A. Michener
  • People
  • Age
  • Light

• Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • People
  • Dark

• I don't even know where to start in terms of people having such an issue about color, especially being dark. I just think on different levels it's ignorance; it's no belief, no confidence, it's insecurity, so you want to inflict it on somebody else.

  

  Alek Wek
  • People
  • Different
  • Dark

• Because these credit agencies operate in the dark, they are allowed to be terribly unfair and unaccountable.

  

  Brian Schatz
  • Dark

• Well, I probably won't get too good grades even without you: I had an argument (completely unrelated – not even pertaining to OS's) with the person here at the university that teaches OS design. I wonder when I'll learn :)

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Good
  • Wonder
  • Design

• Al-Qaeda, which means 'the base' in English, lost its base and training camps in Afghanistan, while its leaders were on the run, captured, or dead. One year after the 9/11 attacks, al-Qaeda was still on life support.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • Life
  • Support
  • Lost

• I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.

  

  Keith Hernandez
  • Game

• I am powerless, helpless. Each time it’s a leap in the dark. A deliberate encounter with the unknown.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Dark
  • Helpless
  • Encounter