Top 100 Quotes About Amsterdam
#1. Although I miss my family and friends when I'm away from Amsterdam, I've never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.
Michiel Huisman
#2. When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don't feel very good.
Al Goldstein
#3. Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.
John Green
#4. I swear on Peter Stuyvesant's peg leg that the country that became the U.S. bears a closer family resemblance to the devil-may-care merchants of New Amsterdam than it does to Boston's communitarian English majors.
Sarah Vowell
#5. Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.
John Green
#6. Most people are flying to Heathrow because it's a hub, so they can fly on to other places, often long-distance flights. If they can't go on those long-distance flights from Heathrow, they will go to Paris, they will go to Amsterdam, they will go to Frankfurt, because those are viable alternatives.
Geoff Hoon
#7. During a recent trip to Amsterdam, she sent me a picture of her smoking marijuana for the first time just because I asked her to.
Amy Poehler
#8. Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
Abraham Pais
#10. ANKER (A'NKER) n.s.[ancker, Dut.] A liquid measure chiefly used at Amsterdam. It is the fourth part of the awm, and contains two stekans: each stekan consists of sixteen mengles; the mengle being equal
Samuel Johnson
#11. I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!
Max Beckmann
#12. The surface of Amsterdam thrives on these mutual acts of surveillance, the neighborly smothering of a person's spirit.
Jessie Burton
#13. The Delta agent saw my itinerary and said, 'You're flying to Jakarta via Atlanta, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur? You must have really pissed off your travel agent.
Tucker Elliot
#14. For two long years the Franks evaded detection by the Nazis. They were less than a month away from Amsterdam's liberation by the Allies when the end came. On August 4, 1944, a secret informant, whose name has never become known, gave away the family's hiding place to the Gestapo.
Bill O'Reilly
#15. 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
#16. I remember the moment when it hit me. I was walking down Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side, and it felt like I was literally walking out of a jail cell that I had been in. At that moment, I realized I could shave if I wanted. It was up to me and no one else.
Matisyahu
#17. I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.
Anton Corbijn
#18. I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.
Linda Cardellini
#19. My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from
prosecution and c) a baseball bat.
Terry Pratchett
#20. I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.
Ringo Starr
#21. Stand outside De Eland, on the Berenstraat Bridge over the Prinsengracht, and you see what real Amsterdam life is like.
David Hewson
#22. We are men on a budget. I mean, why go all the way to Amsterdam when you can just go to Harry Hines?
Anthony Langston
#23. I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.
Sylvia Kristel
#24. In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'.
Viswanathan Anand
#25. New Amsterdam Records, a new label run by composers, has begun documenting this hybrid music, with invigorating discs by the band itsnotyouitsme and the composers Corey Dargel and William Brittelle.
Allan Kozinn
#26. I'm just a girl from Amsterdam. It's a small city. Everybody knows Amsterdam, but it's still a small city. To come from there, to work with Will. i. am ... it's like, 'What happened?! What did I do right?'
Eva Simons
#27. I'm a lot better now," I said. "I'm going to Amsterdam tomorrow with Gus." "I know. I'm pretty well up-to-date on your life, because Gus never. Talks. About. Anything. Else." I
John Green
#28. In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.
Ezra Koenig
#29. My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop
Redman
#30. I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
Jack O'Connell
#31. I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling.
Maud Welzen
#32. There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world.
Alice Morse Earle
#33. Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.
Jerry Saltz
#34. Rubella, Talipes, Amsterdam dwarfism, Austism, Asthma, Eczema, Epilepsy - the Sacred Disease. Moth madness, Papa calls it. Said Daniel. The Epilepsy, Papa used to say I was his little papillon de nuit - because of how I fluttered and got the shakes. Butterfly of the night. It suited him.
Emma Henderson
#35. Most visitors to Amsterdam will wander into the red-light district out of sheer curiosity. The narrow streets are mostly safe day and night - just don't try to take pictures of the women working in the windows.
David Hewson
#36. Amsterdam: Where the pendulum swings from God to a guilder.
Jessie Burton
#37. I used to teach improv courses in Amsterdam where we would do team-building exercises, and they can go south very quickly.
Ike Barinholtz
#38. I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
Action Bronson
#39. I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
Jackie Collins
#40. The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.
Anne Frank
#41. But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.
Dick Van Dyke
#42. 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.
Adele
#43. Rembrandt was an innovator not only in painting but also in commerce. He helped establish a full-fledged art market in seventeenth-century Amsterdam. "Rembrandt's obsession with the intricacies of the market system permeated his life and his work,
John McMillan
#44. I have always lived in Amsterdam. During the war, we inhabited the Rivieren neighborhood where many Jews lived at the time. Our downstairs neighbors were Jews, and there were also Jews a few houses from us. We saw how they were rounded up and taken away. That made a very great impression on me.
Els Borst
#45. I finished my New Amsterdam Black & Tan. I wanted another one, but I was used to that. I always wanted another one.
Robert B. Parker
#46. And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.
Julie Burchill
#47. I love cities. New York, Montreal, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, L.A ... but, I do choose to live in Vancouver. It's home.
Stewart Butterfield
#48. Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.
Julie Burchill
#49. I lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam for a year. It was intense, and it's possible that I even had a few blackouts.
Wolfgang Beltracchi
#50. Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.
Norman Granz
#51. Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.
James Weldon Johnson
#52. Our City has a rich history, even though many tourists are only wanting to see the Red Light District. Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most peopke find sin. - taxi driver
John Green
#53. Together they sank onto the mattress, lying face-to-face. The bed was too narrow for two, but Alan would've been entwined as close as possible with her even if they were lying in his parents' huge tester bed, the one his Dutch grandfather, a wealthy merchant, had brought over from Amsterdam.
Bonnie Dee
#54. Jan-Peter offered to teach me the language of Amsterdam's red light district ... But after his first phrase
'Using the back door will cost you double'
I withdrew my request.
Cristina Garcia
#55. And things are about to get pretty crazy in this alleyway. Even for Amsterdam.
Gayle Forman
#56. I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.
Anton Corbijn
#57. The Italians are very unmusical. If I go to a Protestant church in London or Amsterdam or listen to a black choir, I hear four-part harmony. Italians could never do that. In Italy, we all have to sing the melody because we cannot harmonise.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#58. But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.
Jessie Burton
#59. Early the next morning, they were on a tram out to the far edge of Amsterdam. Ginny liked the tram. It was like an overgrown toy train that had gotten loose on the streets. She looked out and saw the Netherlands wobbling by - its ancient houses and constant canals and people in practical shoes.
Maureen Johnson
#60. Liesel and Papa made their way through the book, this man was traveling to Amsterdam on business and the snow was shivering outside. The girl loved that- the shivering snow. "That's exactly what it does when it comes down," she told Hans Hubermann.
Markus Zusak
#61. Sometimes it just means flying from Bogota to New York via Amsterdam to have a day with your kids. When we spend time with them, I think we do our utmost best to be really with them - on vacations or during weekends or even at breakfast in the morning.
Willem-Alexander, Prince Of Orange
#62. In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.
Janet Echelman
#63. His father was an attorney in Paris. He met Sebastien's mother on a train to Amsterdam. There were no other seats. They were forced together and found they preferred it.
Simon Van Booy
#64. I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one of my favorite places.
Stefon Harris
#65. And now I will tell of the revels that went on for three nights and two days in the brothel on West Seventy-sixth Street between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues.
E.L. Doctorow
#66. When the Internet arrived in Ireland ... it was like having Amsterdam's Red Light District in your own living room.
Tom Dunne
#67. In '83, we went over to Amsterdam. I just remember people saying, 'Baseball's just starting over here. They're learning how to play the game of baseball.'
Mark McGwire
#68. My father was born in Amsterdam in a highly religious family. He was in Amsterdam, and he went into hiding right near where Anne Frank was. He was a theoretical physicist and the last Jew to get a Ph.D. in Amsterdam.
Josh Pais
#69. He looked out the window at the people walking on Amsterdam Avenue. None of them seemed concerned that the day might be one of his last in America. Some of them were laughing. That
Imbolo Mbue
#70. Without someone to talk to, every sight I saw - whether it was the Trevi Fountain or a canal in Amsterdam - felt simply like a name on a list that I needed to check off.
Jojo Moyes
#72. I'm really big on family. I'll love catching up with my cousins. Everyone's in their twenties, so they're all on their grind at the moment, but when we get the time, I'll fly everybody to Amsterdam or Ibiza, and we can just hang for a week, chill, do nothing.
Tinie Tempah
#73. Don't people know that it's the hardest work in the world? Joseph Conrad said that he had loaded hundredweights of coal all day long on a ship in Amsterdam in the wintertime, and that is was nothing to the energy demanded for a day's work writing.
Mary Lee Settle
#74. There are horizons through the brickwork, you wait and see.
Jessie Burton
#75. Thank you for letting me hijack your wish', I said.
'Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa, he said.
John Green
#76. I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there.
Steven Amsterdam
#77. Neighbours watching neighbours, twisting ropes to bind us all.
Jessie Burton
#78. Take care, take care. This city thrives! It's money gives you wings to soar. But it is a yoke on your shoulders and you would do well to take note of the bruise around your neck.
Jessie Burton
#79. I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.
Steven Amsterdam
#80. You're always such a disappointment, Augustus. Couldn't you have at least gotten orange tomatoes?
Hazel Grace Lancaster
#81. These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours and kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full of water, still floating.
John Green
#82. This city is like no other city in the world. It is brilliant but it is bloated, and I've never called it home
Jessie Burton
#83. Nursing demands vigilance about people. The sights and smells that a patient offers, their movements and their offhand comments all contribute crucial information to understanding what they need. Training and experience heighten one's ability to see what needs to be seen.
Steven Amsterdam
#84. And that's how we got arrested at the Stinkerlaas parade'.
Keren David
#85. ...the curious Dutch classification gedogen, which means 'technically illegal but officially tolerated.
Russell Shorto
#86. All we can do if we're lucky is stich up the mistakes other people make.
Jessie Burton
#89. After every shirt she looks at me and smiles, letting go of air she no longer needs. She laughs after the sweater, knowing I'm gonna tell her it's too hot for it, knowing she'll say it's for the plane and ask what if the room gets cold?
Darnell Lamont Walker
#90. Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.
Steven Amsterdam
#91. The ink was secret nectar, for Marin isn't married.
Jessie Burton
#92. I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.
Steven Amsterdam
#93. The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.
Steven Amsterdam
#95. If he really wanted to be happy in the world, Horst? To have any kind of joyful or happy life? He should pay twenty grand to go back to his rapid detox place and then come here and smoke Buddha Haze and stand in a museum all day long.
Donna Tartt
#96. The rules of this house are written in water. I must either sink or swim.
Jessie Burton
#97. The night darkens, the stars unfriendly, the cold a knife upon her neck - but Nella waits, until she can no longer difference between Johannes and the darkness that carries him away.
Jessie Burton
#98. Because, Petronella - it's something in his soul. It's something in his soul and you can't get it out.
Jessie Burton
#100. Believe it or don't believe it, Madame. But my feet are tired too. Bloody tired. Like a dead man's.
Jessie Burton
