Amsterdam Quotes - Page 2

• Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb syndrome?" Julia nodded. "There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see?

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Pain, Self, Waiting

  37 Copy quote

• 'Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book is over, and I just don't want my particular life, and also the sky is depressing me, and there is this old swing set out here that my dad made for me when I was a kid.' 'I must see this old swing set of tears immediately,' he said. 'I'll be over in twenty minutes.'

  John Green

  Depressing, Dad, Book

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green and Rodrigo Corral, January 10, 2012.

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.

  Nan Goldin

  Cute, Real, Too Much

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam for a year. It was intense, and it's possible that I even had a few blackouts.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Years, Intense, Blackouts

  "Confessions of a Genius Art Forger". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Sven Robel, www.spiegel.de. March 9, 2012.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the Internet arrived in Ireland... it was like having Amsterdam's Red Light District in your own living room.

  Tom Dunne

  Light, Red, Rooms

  5 Copy quote

• When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.

  Al Goldstein

  New York, Taken, Son

  38 Copy quote

• Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you your ticket?" I sniffed a few times, considering this. "Why, just before we get on the train." "Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need-just in time.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Wise, Running, Father

  154 Copy quote

• Don't people know that it's the hardest work in the world? Joseph Conrad said that he had loaded hundredweights of coal all day long on a ship in Amsterdam in the wintertime, and that is was nothing to the energy demanded for a day's work writing.

  Mary Lee Settle

  Writing, Long, People

  13 Copy quote

• And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Wise, Running, Father

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.44, Chosen Books

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.

  Michiel Huisman

  New Orleans, Cities, Missing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.

  Anton Corbijn

  Boys, Village, Towns

  "Q & A: Anton Corbijn". Interview by The Scene, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

  Jackie Collins

  Book, Dutch, Facts

  10 Copy quote

• Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa.

  John Green

  Dresses

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.749, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The approach to that movie wasn't, 'Lets make this movie about Amsterdam and maple syrup.' The concept was, 'Lets go to Amsterdam. Amsterdam is fun.' So we flew to Amsterdam with our cameras and we saw what happened and then we got back and we sat down and we said, 'What's the movie here.' That's when we realized that the movie was 'The Maple Syrup Saga'.

  Casey Neistat

  Letting Go, Fun, Down And

  Source: www.tvequals.com

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support this confrontation of the Netherlands' violently passive aggressive racist traditions, by an American Southern, aggressive aggressive. She's a top notch thinker and lover of questions.

  dream hampton

  Support, Southern, Pockets

  10 Copy quote

• Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.

  Abraham Pais

  Stars, Crazy, Yellow

  "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.

  Ringo Starr

  Three, Lines, Bass

  Source: alltheseletters.com

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!

  Max Beckmann

  Giving, Lasts, Exhilaration

  Stephan Lackner, Max Beckmann (1983). “Max Beckmann”, Crown Pub

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Love, Age, Acting

  8 Copy quote

• I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

  Linda Cardellini

  Switzerland

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, tv.avclub.com. January 18, 2008.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.

  Kenneth Frampton

  Block, Opening Up, Space

  6 Copy quote

• Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2.) an enormous old tobacco storeroom is again filled in my imagination with figures from the old days and from the new, like an ocean moved by storm and sun and always present in my thoughts. Then shapes become beings and seem comprehensible to me in the great void and uncertainty of the space which I call god.

  Max Beckmann

  War, Ocean, Space

  "On my painting". Max Beckmann's Speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art', London, July 21, 1938.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a compassionate heart. She inhabits her characters, young or old, men or women, honestly, but without judgment, until they rise off the page and stand before us breathing and alive. New York, the Atacama desert, Amsterdam or Cuzco in Peru, the settings in Venus in the Afternoon are just as varied as the lives which they contain. A wonderful collection, one that will stay in your mind long after you have bid it goodbye.

  Miroslav Penkov

  Goodbye, New York, Moving

  5 Copy quote

• I'd like to have every gentleman and lady in this room commit themselves to get our government to legalize drugs. So they have to get it through a doctor, not just some gangsters who sell it under the table. Let's legalize drugs like they did in Amsterdam. No one's hiding or sneaking around corners to get it. They go to a doctor to get it.

  Tony Bennett

  Sneaking Around, Doctors, Government

  "Why Tony Bennett's Emotional Speech for Drug Legalization Was Not 'Inappropriate,' But Spot On" by Neill Franklin and Katharine Celentano, www.alternet.org. February 16, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Brian Eno and Robert Fripp's foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments. There was a lot curious activities emerging in London, Amsterdam, and Berlin back then developing some fiercely fuzzy of synth-like effects way outside the norm which really blew the lid off things.

  Billy Gibbons

  London, Way, Berlin

  "BYT Interviews: Billy Gibbons". Interview with Jonny Grave, brightestyoungthings.com. January 18, 2016.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source