Bram van Velde Quotes

To be true, you have to take the plunge, to touch bottom. But most people want to be in control. They fear the worst. You can’t control anything. What you have to do is let yourself be taken over.. .All the paintings I have made, I was compelled to make. You must never force yourself.

Bram van Velde

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• Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Think
  • Death
  • Better

• If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.

  

  Yann Martel
  • You
  • Rules
  • Fiction

• It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • People
  • Creative
  • Cooking

• A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Guys
  • Date

• Good material is good material.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Material

• But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Will
  • Happen
  • Technological

• Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • High
  • Courage
  • Voice

• Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Proud
  • Always
  • Something

• I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • People
  • Life
  • Like

• Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Live
  • Children
  • Integrity

• I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Envy

• Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Sick
  • Lazy

• When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.

  

  Joe Murray
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.

  

  Chance The Rapper
  • People
  • Control

• I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.

  

  Bjork
  • Hand
  • Hunting

• I work much better in sunshine. It's drizzle and grayness that I don't like.

  

  Lucy Davis
  • Work
  • Sunshine

• I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me.

  

  Columba Bush

• Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

  

  Joseph Kosinski
  • Opinions
  • Feared
  • Exceptions

• And this was your Cradle? Why, surely, my Jenny,Such cozy dimensions go clearly to showYou were an exceedingly small pickaninny,Some nineteen or twenty short summers ago.

  

  Frederick Locker-Lampson
  • Why
  • Small

• A novel and its writer are inseparable: you are your books. A play's not like that at all. 'Abandonment's not mine - it's everyone's. I wanted it to be a co-operative thing because I was tired of that anal control that I have over novels.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Control
  • Play
  • Tired

• My biggest fear is fear itself. I never want to be afraid of doing something I want.

  

  Anushka Sharma
  • Fear

• To be true, you have to take the plunge, to touch bottom. But most people want to be in control. They fear the worst. You can’t control anything. What you have to do is let yourself be taken over.. .All the paintings I have made, I was compelled to make. You must never force yourself.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Force