Brussels Quotes - page 2

The right hon. and learned Member is the man who likes to say yes in Europe - Monsieur Oui, the poodle of Brussels. (John Major)
Don't criticise my country for dealing with the reality of the migrant crisis that Brussels refuses to face. View quote
Gjorge Ivanov
What is Europe doing? It takes more than six months to organize a summit alone. By that time, one million new migrants have arrived. This is why, for instance, some countries along the Balkans route like us had to act on their own. If we had trusted Brussels and had not reacted on our own initiative, we would already have been flooded with jihadists. The EU has no right to accuse Macedonia. We are merely looking after ourselves. View quote
Gjorge Ivanov
...the leaders of an independent Scotland will be only too happy to trade away that independence in return for admission to the fleshpots of Brussels for themselves and their families, goes without saying; they have the example of Westminster to copy. View quote
George MacDonald Fraser
What matters above all is sovereignty, the right to make our own laws......the right to remain independent of the unworthy, undemocratic, unprincipled, authoritarian, bureaucratic rabble of Brussels. View quote
George MacDonald Fraser
Well, I think here there is some money gathered, especially in Europe, through the web, through connection to a network. I mean, imagine that in Brussels there is only one person, one single person, which is monitoring the traffic that goes on on the internet for the jihadist groups. In Strasbourg there are two people. So I mean you can imagine how easy it is to raise money through the net. View quote
Loretta Napoleoni
I'm scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot. View quote
Adele
My perfect Sunday would be a chilled, calming day, nothing too taxing. I try to watch films at the cinema whenever I can, or I go for a walk down by the river. ... Richard and I might then try out a new restaurant we've heard about. I'm vegetarian and I love it that there are so many places in London with great veggie food. ... I've got my own little fan group who call themselves the Sprouts, because of my obsession with Brussels sprouts, and they're a fantastic group of girls that I chat to all the time. ... Otherwise – this is embarrassing to admit – Richard and I will play Call of Duty. It's a side of me that not a lot of people know about but I was a big games girl when I was a teenager and computer games are my guilty pleasure. View quote
Samantha Barks
I can not get used to the idea of staying here [in Belgium] always. One stays always a 'stranger' here and I miss the support from each other one has in his own country. I sometimes wonder what will be more my advantage, to be here [Belgium] or with us in The Hague... It always seemed to me that it doesn't look very brilliant with us [in The Hague] and I believe to be here [in Brussels] more in the heart of the movements in art, but sometimes I dislike Belgium. View quote
Willem Roelofs
I also sold some drawings [he means his watercolors] - the Dutch pieces [he painted in The Netherlands] sell rather well [in Brussels, where he lived then]. People seem to prefer colored drawings here. (translation from original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek) View quote
Willem Roelofs
.. I would like to ask your advice as a friend, namely whether you believe I should submit my painting 'Ouden en Jongen' [Old and Young ones'] to Brussels [exhibition] or not. I thought it was a nice painting, but now I read in the Handelsblad that it is so bad. What is truth about that. Please do me the favor to sent me some words sans facon [straight forward], what is your opinion about this. (Jozef Israëls)
I have no interest sitting all day in Brussels committees enacting job-killing, democracy-destroying legislation inspired by the EU. View quote
Paul Nuttall
I think it's kinda nice.' And I did. my mom isn't famous for her pies. No, she's famous for defusing a nuclear device in Brussels with only a pair of cuticle scissors and a ponytail holder. Somehow, at the moment, pies seemed cooler. View quote
Ally Carter
I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels. View quote
Candice Accola
The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy. View quote
David Korten
The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later. View quote
David Miliband
My husband is the cook at our house. I can make dessert and salad, but I stay away from meals. He makes amazing omelets, fish, and grilled vegetables like Brussels sprouts and cauliflower. View quote
Dylan Lauren
I believe that transatlantic relations are very important and that President Bush's visit to Brussels, in a few days, will have a major impact on that. View quote
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years. View quote
Michael Specter
As a wheelchair user, you can't move about freely. That's the only thing that bothers me a little. When I'm in the Euro Group in Brussels, colleagues who want to talk to me have to come to me. But I hope they know that this has nothing to do with arrogance. View quote
Wolfgang Schauble
If God gives me a long life and allows me to carry out my task, then Brussels will become a city of exceptional category. (Leopold II of Belgium)
Time past on as lightly as he always steps over flowers, Brussels carpets, marble terraces, green turfs, or whatever simile may best express a path without an impediment. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
This is something I feel very strongly and very passionately about. Together I want us to pave the road from Ankara to Brussels. View quote
David Cameron
Our laws will be made not in Brussels but in Westminster. The authority of EU law in Britain will end. View quote
Theresa May
In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm. View quote
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt