Centraal Quotes

#1. Historic Amsterdam, that old part you first see when you turn up at Centraal Station, may have its monuments, but it's also the most tawdry and overcrowded part of the city.

David Hewson

#2. New research suggests that we may hold an unconscious bias against creative ideas much like we do in cases of racism or phobias.

Anonymous

#3. And let's remember that science isn't a game of chess, although chess may be played scientifically. The other thing to remember is that if we are to organize the masses we must first organize ourselves.

Ralph Ellison

#4. Animals interest me more than anything else.

Douglas Brinkley

#5. I pass over the spectacle of Poirot on a camel. He started by groans and lamentations and ended by shrieks, gesticulations and invocations to the Virgin Mary and every Saint in the calendar. In the end, he descended ignominiously and finished the journey on a diminutive donkey.

Agatha Christie

#6. I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and to argue that this "exceptional figure" serves a conservative function in modern culture that bears closer interrogation than it has commonly received.

Richard Marshall

#8. An ocean does not know how big she is just like you don't know how loving and amazing you are.

Debasish Mridha