Van Quotes

The bank, Mr. Van Buren, is trying to kill me, but I will kill it. (Andrew Jackson)
You have Van Gogh's ear for music. View quote
Billy Wilder
I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh. View quote
Dick Bruna
The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen. View quote
Alex Van Halen
You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype. View quote
Gary Cherone
I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party. View quote
Matthew Sweet
The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last year, the murderer and his supporters were also part of the Muslim community. View quote
Otto Schily
So yes, I do want to try and keep things going if I can. I have a few things brewing... And if it doesn't happen, I did buy an ice cream van a while ago. So I always have that to fall back on. View quote
Rupert Grint
As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer. View quote
Ruud van Nistelrooy
Sitting on a cornflake, Waiting for the van to come... View quote
John Lennon
I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin. (Oscar Niemeyer)
The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access TV station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself. View quote
Louis C.K.
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a colour, a surface. [quote of Van Doesburg, c. 1925]. View quote
Theo van Doesburg
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. View quote
Kate Beckinsale
It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation. View quote
Antonin Artaud
I think it's a good idea to tie Peter Mandelson to a van. Such an act would be cruel and barbaric and inhuman. But it would at least cheer everyone up a bit. View quote
Jeremy Clarkson
I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside, or . . . View quote
Cassandra Clare
Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not. View quote
Nigel Farage
The artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. If you don't believe me, ask Van Gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life. View quote
Steven Pressfield
I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter. View quote
Jim Carrey
The 'Cercle et Carré' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter Torrès-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship, his obstinacy matching my patience, this unholy team of fire and water was bound to produce something. Towards the end of the year, after consulting sundry artists, including Arp, Mondrian, and Van Doesburg, we drew up the program for a new group and launched a magazine which was be called 'Cercle et Carré. (Michel Seuphor)
Those who delight in bad movies and enjoy producing their own unfilmed versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 may gain a measure of semi-masochistic enjoyment out of Van Helsing. There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good." View quote
James Berardinelli
I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh. View quote
Billy Childish
I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried to make Ruby perfect for me, but maybe it's not perfect for you. The perfect language for Guido van Rossum is probably Python. View quote
Yukihiro Matsumoto
I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown. View quote
Dennis Miller