Bram van Velde Quotes

An artist’s life is all very fine and moving. But only in retrospect. In books.

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• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• A new untruth is better than an old truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Better
  • Truth Is

• Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Up
  • Never
  • Grow

• Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Work
  • Myself

• 'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.

  

  Edmund White
  • Truth
  • Fun
  • Politics

• I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you would see that I'm still brooding about statements, songs and issues from the third grade. The years between 1980 and today went by very, very quickly.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Today

• The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is such an extraordinary statement - it was designed by people skeptical of government, local or national, but in particular national.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • People
  • Government
  • Lies

• Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
  • Passion
  • Mountain

• If you don't vote, you don't count.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • You
  • Vote
  • Count

• We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Entertain

• I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Sports
  • Say

• I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Mind
  • Honesty
  • Prove

• There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Work
  • Art
  • Think

• I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That's part of my image, so it's cool.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Boy
  • Image
  • Tattoos

• I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Good
  • Sports
  • Masculinity

• We believe in the dignity of man as an individual, whatever his race, colour or creed, and his right to better, fuller, and richer life.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Man

• You can only go into science because you're interested in it.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Science
  • You
  • Go

• A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Man
  • Reading
  • Wife

• I've been bisexual for as long as I can remember. I remember being made fun of in junior high for that. It was something that was shameful, and it really shouldn't be.

  

  Crystal Bowersox
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Fun

• It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Me
  • Always
  • Literature

• I'm a little bit of a gypsy myself. I've always had jobs where I'm moving around and I'm not sure what's going to happen tomorrow or the next day.

  

  Niall Matter
  • Moving
  • Gypsy

• Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Health
  • Space
  • Water

• What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it - the fact that He knows me.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Lasts
  • Analysis

• An artist’s life is all very fine and moving. But only in retrospect. In books.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Moving
  • Books
  • Retrospect