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  • Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

    Tree   Amsterdam   Rings  
    John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.92, Penguin
  • People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he answered, smiling. I felt myself blushing. “Thank you for coming to Amsterdam,” he said. “Thank you for letting me hijack your wish,” I said. “Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa

    People   Wish   Dresses  
  • 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.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I was born in Belgium and moved to Amsterdam when I was 17. I am not a Calvinist Dutchman but a Catholic Belgian. I think that makes a big difference.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • 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.

    Love   Age   Acting  
  • 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.

    Wise   Running   Father  
  • Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called "Vlam

  • We're going on a, um, windmill tour later this week." If I'd wanted to shut them all up, I'd definitely succeeded. They all looked stunned. Adrian spoke first. "I'm going to assume that means he's flying you to Amsterdam on his private jet. If so, I'd like to come along. But not for the windmills.

    Mean   Flying   Amsterdam  
    Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.76, Penguin
  • In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.

    Land   Cities   Water  
  • And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.

    Pigs   Doors   Dinner  
    "Chill factors". www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.
  • I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling.

    Mom   School   Paris  
  • There are so many international musical connections here, in Amsterdam. And some of them are amazingly successful.

    Source: thequietus.com
  • My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat.

  • Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

    Cities   Venice   Mind  
    James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.331, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

    Air   Amsterdam   Scripts  
  • I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger!

    Tattoo   Mistake   Blue  
  • I'm really big on family. I'll love catching up with my cousins. Everyone's in their twenties, so they're all on their grind at the moment, but when we get the time, I'll fly everybody to Amsterdam or Ibiza, and we can just hang for a week, chill, do nothing.

    Cousin   Ibiza   Twenties  
    Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
  • 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.

    London   Amsterdam   Way  
    "BYT Interviews: Billy Gibbons". Interview with Jonny Grave, brightestyoungthings.com. January 18, 2016.
  • When the Internet arrived in Ireland... it was like having Amsterdam's Red Light District in your own living room.

    Light   Red   Amsterdam  
  • Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could be lent. The bank then got interest. The borrower then had a deposit that he could spend. But the original deposit still stood to the credit of the original depositor. That too could be spent. Money, spendable money, had been created. Let no one rub his or her eyes. It's still being done-every day. The creation of money by a bank is as simple as this, so simple, I've often said, that the mind is slightly repelled.

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

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

    Stars   Crazy   Yellow  
    "To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue" edited by Ellen Land-Weber, Part I, Holland, Ch. 1, (p. 48), 2000.
  • Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

    "Chill factors" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.
  • 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.

    Book   Dutch   Amsterdam  
  • Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.

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

    "Confessions of a Genius Art Forger". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Sven Robel, www.spiegel.de. March 9, 2012.
  • But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.

    Water   Church   East  
    Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.8, Pan Macmillan
  • 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.

    Writing   Long   People  
  • 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!

    Stephan Lackner, Max Beckmann (1983). “Max Beckmann”, Crown Pub
  • ...And in freedom, most people find sin.

    John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.93, Penguin
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