Top 16 Flemish Quotes
#1. The Academy of the Sword (1630) by the Flemish master Gerard Thibault d
Cary Elwes
#2. He had come abroad to enjoy the Flemish painters and all others; but what fair-tressed saint of Van Eyck or Memling was so interesting a figure as Madame de Mauves?
Henry James
#4. measured his own length in the Flemish mud and skidded forward, all elbows and knees; then he jerked erect again, breathless, desperate and angered, at the heart of a sudden
Peter Tonkin
#6. However," he continued, "this canvas is preferable to the paintings of that varlet Rubens, with his mountains of Flemish flesh sprinkled with vermilion, his waves of red hair and his medley of colors.
Honore De Balzac
#7. I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.
Ann Demeulemeester
#8. What are you called?" "Georgette. How are you called?" "Jacob." "That's a Flemish name." "American too." "You're not Flamand?" "No, American." "Good, I detest Flamands.
Ernest Hemingway,
#9. She described people, scenes, and objects she had never seen with the detail and precision of a Flemish master. Her words evoked textures and echoes, the color of voices, the rhythm of footsteps.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#10. Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
Anne Lamott
#11. I'm afraid of the dark,and suspicious of the light.
Woody Allen
#12. When I was a kid, afraid of the Boogieman, I would hide motionlessly under my bed covers for hours on end. Not much has changed since then.
Torre DeRoche
#13. I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.
Marianne Williamson
#14. Lucy's idea of sympathy compared unfavorably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo.
Robert Galbraith
#15. The most fundamental exercise is self-observation, which is the catalyst for inner change, it will give self-knowledge and a clear mind and perception. Without it, the attempt to reach enlightenment and awaken consciousness is destined to fail.
Belsebuub
#16. When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
George Bernard Shaw
