Holland Quotes

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  • I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one as a [heart] donor. When we put him to sleep in his cage in preparation for the operation, he chattered and cried incessantly. We attached no significance to this, but it must have made a great impression on his companion, for when we removed the body to the operating room, the other chimp wept bitterly and was inconsolable for days. The incident made a deep impression on me. I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

    Heart   Sleep   Animal  
  • Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.

  • Holland I think is the best school to learn football. I think its a great league for that because it's not the strongest league in Europe.

    The Soccer Bible Interview, www.soccerbible.com. March 20, 2014.
  • I went back to Holland and I thought 'Ok, now I made so many movies in Hollywood, I know how special effects work, how to do action for not a lot of money, and I have all of these skills now.' It was something in Holland that nobody dared to touch.

  • There isnt a single windmill owner in Holland who doesnt have a second job, for when there is no wind.

    Jobs   Wind   Owners  
  • Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in a few seconds and never lose the stars in her eyes.

    Girl   Stars   Eye  
  • Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.

    Play   Want   Might  
  • I think that France, Germany, Spain, Holland and England will join Brazil in the semi-finals.

  • My idol was always Romario. He was playing in Holland at the time and I loved him. His skills, technique, I loved him he was my hero. I liked his whole game. One moment it would be like he was sleeping and then another moment he would change the game.

    Hero   Sleep   Idols  
    The Soccer Bible Interview, www.soccerbible.com. March 20, 2014.
  • Authorities in New York City have foiled a plot by terrorists to blow up the Holland Tunnel. There was one awkward moment when officials informed President Bush the Holland Tunnel was safe. Bush then thanked the Dutch authorities for all their help.

    New York   Blow   Tunnels  
  • Because of the booking I will miss the Holland game - if selected.

  • [The Dutch] people want [refugees to be safe] but don't come here. And don't forget, people are very angry about that, that most of the people who came to Holland were younger people, often young men who crossed before coming to Holland six of seven safe countries in order to be in Holland. If they just wanted to be safe, they would have stopped at Turkey or maybe if you find Turkey unsafe, in Greece.

    Country   Men   Order  
    Source: www1.cbn.com
  • People, houses, streets, animals, flowers-everything in Holland looks as if it were washed and ironed each night in order to glisten immaculately and newly starched the next morning.

    Morning   Flower   Animal  
  • My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.

    "EXCLUSIVE: Anton Corbijn Is in Control" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. October 05, 2007.
  • It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were never such an intense and iridescent green; sunlight glinted on flower-studded meadows as the Germans encircled the Maginot Line and overran not only France but Belgium and Holland. Birdsong filled the air in the lull between bursts of gunfire and accompanied the fleeing refugees who blocked the roads. It was as though the weather was preparing a glorious requiem for the death of Europe.

    Summer   Flower   Air  
    "A Song for Summer".
  • I have been DJing in clubs for years. I always dreamed to be a famous DJ in Holland. And now it's worldwide. You can't imagine. I mean, I still can't believe it myself that everything has gone so well.

    Believe   Mean   Years  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.
  • You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

  • [European audiences differ from American] they talk different. The ones in Holland speak Dutch. The ones in Switzerland speak Swiss. That's the only difference.

    Source: lynnhappens.com
  • I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.

  • In Holland, pensions were cut. The public health services for elderly people were cut. Enormous asocial tough measures. And at the same time people saw while the government has these enormous austerity measures, that the government spent billions of euros on asylum seekers who really weren't asylum seekers but migrants looking for a better life.

    Source: www1.cbn.com
  • I love the impatience of New York... You ever had somebody not ask you for directions, but demand them? You're just innocently walking down the street, you hear a horn, all of a sudden some guy's like, 'HOLLAND TUNNEL!!!' ...You know, like you were supposed to fax this guy directions. Suddenly, you're wasting HIS time.

  • I got involved in 2003, 2004, with a company called Dance4Life out of Holland.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.

    Sports   Easter   Sex  
    Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”
  • The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to see how long they could keep someone alive while being roasted. It is not needful to go into further details, but there were also religious books of instruction in this art, and guides for the detection of heresy by pain.

    Religious   Art   Pain  
    Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.208, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

    Fog   Yellow   Soul  
  • My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.

    Mean   Goal   Different  
  • After the German occupation of Holland in May 1940, the last two dark years of the war I spent hiding indoors from the Nazis, eating tulip bulbs to fill the stomach and reading Kramers' book "Quantum Theorie des Elektrons und der Strahlung" by the light of a storm lamp.

    War   Reading   Book  
  • I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.

    Guitar   Piano   Age  
  • To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

    Soccer   Play   Dutch  
  • I made a few movies in Holland for a lot of TV series. I came to Los Angeles and for the last 10 years, I made a lot of feature films - all kinds of low budget action movies for the studios.

    Years   Lasts   Tvs  
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