Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Franklin

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

Inge de Bruijn

I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.

Marco Basten

The passing away of the grand old man of the training camp, the father of Dutch football, is an enormous loss for the football world.

Wanda Jackson

Well, I didn't learn them I had to do them phonetically. But I've recorded in Dutch and Japanese, too.

Gail Carriger

Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed.

KC Boutiette

I was waving to all my Dutch fans, because that's all that's out there.

Darby Stanchfield

I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up.

Lars Lagerback

I think we had a very good game, playing on this level equal with the Dutch team. It was a really good match and it could have gone either way.

Bill Walsh

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise.

Benjamin Franklin

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

Brittany Snow

It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

Kumail Nanjiani

Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Charles Spurgeon

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

Mark Ronson

I know it sounds really lame and hater-ish, but I think 2009 was maybe the worst year for music ever.

Bill Clinton

You know, it's just one small step from legacy to lame duck.

Ambrose Bierce

The money-getter who pleads his love of work has a lame defense, for love of work at money-getting is a lower taste than love of money.

Carol Shields

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

David Shields

My medium is prose, not the novel.

David Mitchell

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

David Mitchell

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

David Quammen

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

Ellen Potter

I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters.

John Irving

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

Jane Smiley

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.