Top 38 Belgian Quotes
#1. I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.
Guido Palau
#2. Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?
Francis Alys
#3. I'm very Belgian, and I will die Belgian. I just have my house in the north of France because I began my career in Paris, even though I don't live there anymore.
Cecile De France
#4. In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.
Robert Stack
#5. My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually. I'm bilingual, so I had experience with French.
Celine Buckens
#6. The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.
Emma Donoghue
#7. There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job.
Nicholas Royle
#8. I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.
Ann Demeulemeester
#9. A novel is a hearty meal, but poems are the Belgian chocolates of the bookshelf. You can pick one and linger over it. Savour the aroma, the taste, the melting texture, the sweet craving it leaves behind! Or you can scoff down as many as you can eat. It's up to you.
Vicky Arthurs
#10. English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.
Jay Rayner
#11. he was bitten in the groin by a Belgian shepherd trainee named Kong, and he required three operations, culminating in a scrotal graft from a Brahma steer.
Carl Hiaasen
#12. It's no coincidence that the man who contributed the most to the study of human anatomy, the Belgian Andreas Vesalius, was an avid proponent of do-it-yourself, get-your-fussy-Renaissance-shirt-dirty anatomical dissection.
Mary Roach
#13. I'm much more into bad, trashy Belgian techno. I like that much more than rock bands. The whole idea of a rock band is so archaic.
Luke Haines
#14. Saint Guy of Anderlecht was the tenth-century Belgian saint of animals, stables, workhorses, and bachelors.
Edmund White
#15. Cheyenne. Created from the finest Belgian lace over ivory sateen, it fit Anna like
Maggie Brendan
#16. Like Belgian chocolate - absolutely sinful and completely irresistible'.
Joss Stirling
#17. I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies. But its not by chance directors choose me for physical parts. I like to do that. I like to tell a story also with the body. It's important, because you can tell a lot of things.
Cecile De France
#18. I read in a book that they cut off the workers' hands if they hadn't collected enough rubber by the end of the day. The Belgian foremen would bring baskets full of brown hands back to the boss, piled up like a mess of fish. Could this be true of civilized white Christians? In
Barbara Kingsolver
#19. Three hundred pages of cotton-soft parchment, bound up with a green ribbon. Her writing gushed in watery ripples over the pages, penmanship that called to mind the maddest intricate Belgian lace. Wrought on a pin's head but stretching for miles if unraveled.
Lyndsay Faye
#20. Like the name of a cartoon Belgian detective said in a Scottish accent, it's 10:10.'11 It
Alan Partridge
#21. When you walk into a chocolate store, suddenly the most difficult decision you will ever have to make in your life, is which chocolates to pick! It is pure torture! Especially when you are in Belgium surrounded by Belgian chocolates!
C. JoyBell C.
#22. I try to eat healthy, but being Belgian, I'm also addicted to chocolate.
Pattie Maes
#23. I've always liked Belgian waffles, but I must say, I didn't think I would one day be having Belgian waffles in Belgium! I just sort of POOF found myself there and there I was with a gigantic Belgian waffle in my hands, standing on a sidewalk in Belgium!
C. JoyBell C.
#25. In the Belgian backwaters, south of Bruges, there lives a reclusive English composer, named Vyvyan Ayrs. You won't have heard of him because you're a musical oaf, but he's one of the greats.
David Mitchell
#26. Fellow has the wrong clothes and all that. French chap-or Belgian. Queer fellow, but he's got the goods all right.
Agatha Christie
#27. 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
#28. Every week, I heave open a supermarket skip and find therein a more exotic shopping list of items than I could possibly have invented - Belgian chocolates, ripe bananas, almond croissants, stone-ground raisin bread - often so much it would have fed a hundred people.
Tristram Stuart
#29. Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.
Kelly Miller
#30. A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care.
Shane Leslie
#31. There's no such a thing as American, Belgian, or Nigerian blood. There's only one kind: human blood.
Ben Tolosa
#32. I know you're Belgian, that's where those waffles come from
Alan Sugar
#33. I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.
Zaha Hadid
#34. From Roger Bacon, the 13th century Franciscan who pioneered the scientific method, to George Lemaitre, the 20th century Belgian priest who first developed a mathematical foundation for the 'Big Bang,' people of faith have played a key role in advancing scientific understanding.
Kenneth R. Miller
#35. Happiness is German engineering, Italian cooking, and Belgian chocolate.
Patricia Briggs
#36. In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.
Erich Fromm
#37. Passion such as hers is all consent, asking little in return. I had merely to enter a room where she was to see her face take on that peaceful expression of one who is resting in bed. If I touched her, I had the impression that all the blood in her veins was turning to honey.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#38. To understand a woman, a man had to peel away layer after layer of words, much as one must peel away an onion to get at the desired part.
Tamar Myers
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