Antwerp Quotes

#1. One of the big luxuries of being in Antwerp is that I can easily walk in the city. In Paris and New York, I am more recognized.

Dries Van Noten

#2. Antwerp literally was a trash hole, but fashion changed that. The designers there were extreme, and their work was hard to understand. But now, people from all over the world come to Antwerp to shop.

Raf Simons

#3. She walked off to Hurst; and got a good priest there-- one whom she had known at Antwerp-- to write for her. But no answer came. It was like crying into the awful stillness of night.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#4. One time we played a concert in Antwerp, Belgium. At least I thought it was Antwerp, Belgium. Turns out it was a Stop 'n Shop in Wisconsin somewhere, but it was fun man.

Slash

#5. When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me a very young age.

Dries Van Noten

#6. And when the Duke of Alva ordered three hundred Citizens to be put to Death together at Antwerp, a Lady who saw the Sight was presently afterwards deliver'd of a Child without a Head. So lives the Power of Imagination even in this Rationall Age.

Peter Ackroyd

#7. Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch.

Christian De Duve

#8. I'm taking Fleur on a thestral," said Bill. "She's not that fond of brooms."
Fleur walked over to stand beside him, giving him a sloppy, slavish look that Harry hoped with all his heart would never appear on his face again.

J.K. Rowling

#9. The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

Socrates

#10. Her clear conscience mocked rumour's mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.

Ovid

#11. Part of my head will always be in the years after World War II - the five years before Korea started.

Pete Hamill

#12. I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

Sally Pearson

#13. Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking.

Chris Crutcher

#14. It's not easy to shed the idea that human life is sacred.

Audie Murphy

#15. Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.

Mindy Kaling

#16. I feel, having the choices I had, I felt I had more control over my own medium than I did over photography.

Ben Shahn

#17. We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Oscar Wilde

#18. My friends just kept joking about all the horrible physical side effects [of Prednisone ]. I can only imagine that something that works that well has got to be bad for you.

Hamilton Leithauser

#19. If we had these rockets in 1939, we should never have had this war.

Adolf Hitler

#20. F you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

Bill Shankly

#21. Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post.

Barack Obama

#22. The Lowcountry traditionally is a logical place where the big ships stopped and brought new things in from the ocean, and the islands have a mystical tradition. It is such a visual place, too, with these iconic villages with the Spanish moss and the village and historical homes and the coast.

Margaret Stohl