Vans Quotes - Page 2

• I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative things. I lusted after costume jewelry. My husband was a very lucky man.

  Iris Apfel

  Husband, Men, Lucky

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• I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went damn that's a good painting, you know? No, he considered shooting himself, and one day he did.

  Mick Farren

  Morning, Clouds, Crow

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Well, let's take what people think is a dignified death. Christ - was that a dignified death? Do you think it's dignified to hang from wood with nails through your hands and feet bleeding, hang for three or four days slowly dying, with people jabbing spears into your side, and people jeering you? Do you think that's dignified? Not by a long shot. Had Christ died in my van with people around Him who loved Him, the way it was, it would be far more dignified. In my rusty van.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Thinking, Hands, Your Side

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• It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. If he is more than a popular story-teller it may take humanity a generation to absorb and grow accustomed to the new geography with which the scientist or artist presents us. Even then, perhaps only the more imaginative and literate may accept him. Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.

  Loren Eiseley

  Art, Men, Humanity

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• Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours, then he might have become an excellent painter-decorator, and received a big turn out at his funeral, and that would be that. But the genes wouldn't let him.

  Declan Lynch

  Civilization, Funeral, Would Be

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• If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

  Gary Cherone

  Thinking, Different, Records

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• When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the preparation and cooking; decorating is the final seasoning, the savoring.

  Albert Hadley

  Differences, Design, Cooking

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• Another fact that doesn't exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex.

  Anne Frank

  War, Men, Facts

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.74, Hamilton Books

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• If you want to get broken in good, put four girls on the road together in a van and tour up and down the country.

  Valerie June

  Girl, Country, Broken

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• He drove me home in the van, complaining, 'Women only like me for my mind'.

  Steven Morrissey

  Home, Dating, Romance

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• What first got me involved in politics was being 14, and a youth organizer comes to my house with a van full of 14 year old girls. "Hey, you want to go to the beach with us? But first we're going to go support the cannery workers' strike in Watsonville."

  Boots Riley

  Girl, Beach, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I discovered rock'n'roll. You could go round Europe in a van with your best mates, drinking beer, smoking dope and screwing chicks.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Drinking, Beer, Dope

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I just completed a tour in Europe. I played every night. This requires traveling some days for six hours in a van or a train or a car. After six weeks of that, I checked into the hotel and just fell apart.

  Lee Konitz

  Night, Europe, Car

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• In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.

  John Darnielle

  Real, People, Guy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When we woke up every morning, one of our things was, "Let's go put a new sign in the back window of the van." Those are the different signs we had up in the back of our van, so that the people behind us could have something enjoyable to look at.

  David Pajo

  Morning, People, Different

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'd say it ["I Can't Drive 55"] has probably been the most successful song I've ever been involved with, including any Van Halen songs.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Successful, Van Halen

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Dark, Men

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• That song ["Don't Tell Me"] didn't take us anywhere, and I know why now. It wasn't what Van Halen fans wanted. It showed the darkness of Van Halen, and basically the end of the band.

  Sammy Hagar

  Song, Darkness, Fans

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I really think that Van Halen has two choices if they want to continue. And maybe they don't want to continue, because they don't seem to do much.

  Sammy Hagar

  Thinking, Two, Choices

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I have many favorite artists...Van Gough as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!

  Colin Mochrie

  Artist, Favorite Artist

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• I'm the only choice to make a record. And that's the only way I would do it. We'd have to make some new music. The fans deserve it. Van Halen's got some of the best fans on the planet.

  Sammy Hagar

  Choices, Fans, Records

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I think that's why I gravitated toward slightly broader... ummm, more conceptual kinds of movies, Underworld and Van Helsing. That was as much as I could actually give. But you're actually more of an animated figure. It does go against the grain, as an actor.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Thinking, Giving, Doe

  Allure magazine, March 2008.

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• Paul Simon once said that a songwriter's supreme challenge was being complex and simple at the same time-writing songs with lasting depth that are also simple enough to be memorable. Jimmy Van Heusen was a master at this kind of song. His music was complex, with deeply rich chord changes any jazzman can embrace, but also possessed catchy, crystalline melodies of exceeding sing-ability. His songs were meant to be sung, not just listened to, and they were sung by the best, with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby at the top of that list.

  Paul Zollo

  Song, Memorable, Writing

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• Every time I finish a song... most of the time it's in my own head, like this sounds too much like a Townes Van Zandt song, or whoever. I realize there are so many melodies and chord progressions in pop and rock music that are so similar that you can kind of trace it back to other things. Most of the time it's just in your head.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Writing, Rocks

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• Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W. Pabst scholar at New York University tortured by the neurotic compulsion that there are only a finite number of erections possible in the world at any one time and that his tumescence means e.g. the detumescence of some perhaps more deserving or tortured Third World sorghum farmer.

  David Foster Wallace

  New York, Mean, Numbers

  "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

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