Top 100 Quotes About Holland
#1. I waltzed into the hall with my escort of five screws like some rapper with his well-paid entourage. A fiendish looking, little bastard with blonde hair and a crooked nose came up to me and said, 'Okay, Holland, welcome to Shotts. Welcome to the man-eater!
Stephen Richards
#2. I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe.
Gore Vidal
#3. When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in Holland knows my name.' And it worked.
Afrojack
#4. The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other.
Michiel Huisman
#5. More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.
David Korten
#6. If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
Steven Wright
#7. He suffered," added Athos softly. "But not like you." He brought his mouth closer. "No one suffers as beautifully as you." There it was, in the corner of Holland's mouth, the crease of his eye. Anger. Pain. Defiance. Athos smiled, victorious.
V.E Schwab
#8. I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.
Karin Slaughter
#9. The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstable; Russia, impossible; Italy, absurd; Germany, rigid; Portugal, in decline. Holland, thought favorably disposed toward him, was dull. The United States of America, he decided, was a possibility.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#10. I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the American West. That was when I learned about the tradition of nature in American photography.
Frans Lanting
#11. Henry was thinking of the younger Holland sister of the way she could go from being an impetuous girl to a knowing woman in a few seconds and never lose the stars in her eyes.
Anna Godbersen
#12. I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it.
Michael Jackson
#13. In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy
#14. I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them.
Nelson Piquet
#15. I was swimming for the United States of America. I was swimming to beat Stephen Holland.
Bobby Hackett
#16. The beginning of the end for trans fats came not from any American scientist, since critics of trans fats in the US research community had effectively been marginalized. Instead, it came from Holland:
Nina Teicholz
#17. Because of the booking I will miss the Holland game - if selected.
Paul Gascoigne
#19. And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.
Herman Gorter
#20. In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#21. There's this great TV show we have called 'Later ... with Jools Holland', a live-music show on Friday nights. Anyone and everyone's been on it.
Asif Kapadia
#22. I'd love to be the new Jools Holland, but you know, for, like, cooler people.
Katy B
#23. To play Holland, you've got to play the Dutch
Ruud Gullit
#24. No," I said. "You're not a Yankee imperialist?" she prodded. "Certainly not," I told her. "I come from Ireland." "Holland," she said, frowning. "No,
Valerie Hemingway
#25. More than England to the British West Indian or even Holland to the Surinamer, France is the mother country to the Martiniquan.
V.S. Naipaul
#26. In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I've always had a passion for the outdoors, for trees, for birds and flowers.
Audrey Hepburn
#27. His heart slowed, winding down like a music box, a season at its end.
The last air left Holland's lungs.
And then, at last, the world breathed in.
V.E Schwab
#28. Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false.
Paul Crouch
#29. Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.
M. E. W. Sherwood
#30. I made a few movies in Holland for a lot of TV series. I came to Los Angeles and for the last 10 years, I made a lot of feature films - all kinds of low budget action movies for the studios.
Roel Reine
#31. I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy ... and then I did Spain and France by myself.
Michael Fassbender
#32. The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
Edward Burnett Tylor
#33. Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.
Afrojack
#34. I wanted to move away from Holland for my work because I felt that things would be better for me in England. But when I heard Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures', that pushed me towards making the move and making it real. I met them within 12 days of moving to England.
Anton Corbijn
#35. I'm from Holland and the history of "Admiral" is something you would read about when you're at school. Nobody knows about these stories and when you go to any museum in Holland, you will see these paintings of these 17th century sea beckels that the Dutch were in to, so it always intrigued me.
Roel Reine
#36. Where land was controlled by noblemen and/or the Church in other parts of Europe, in the province of Holland, circa 1500, only 5 percent of the land was owned by nobles, while peasants owned 45 percent of it.
Russell Shorto
#37. In New York, unlike Holland, there are newspaper stands on every corner. That was a big headline all over the city.
Ari Marcopoulos
#38. Growing up in Holland, I always thought my name was boring, but in the U.S., all of a sudden I have a very cool name.
Michiel Huisman
#39. While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.
Henry David Thoreau
#40. To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
John Lothrop Motley
#41. I have been DJing in clubs for years. I always dreamed to be a famous DJ in Holland. And now it's worldwide. You can't imagine. I mean, I still can't believe it myself that everything has gone so well.
Tiesto
#42. LINCKLAEN, JOHN. (Agent of the Holland Land Company.) Journals of Travels into Pennsylvania, New York and Vermont (1791-1792). Translated from French by Helen Lincklaen Fairchild. With biographical sketch and notes. New York, Putnams: 1897.
Anonymous
#43. Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made.
Armin Van Buuren
#44. I went back to Holland and I thought 'Ok, now I made so many movies in Hollywood, I know how special effects work, how to do action for not a lot of money, and I have all of these skills now.' It was something in Holland that nobody dared to touch.
Roel Reine
#45. In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football.
Dennis Bergkamp
#46. You could get a book then. There was a book in the library about Holland. There were lovely foreign names in it and pictures of strangelooking cities and ships. It made you feel so happy.
James Joyce
#47. Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.
Paul Gauguin
#48. The last year had been an education in how little having money really mattered. A rich Vagabond was a Vagabond still, and 'twas common knowledge that King Charles, during the Interregnum, had lived without money in Holland.
Neal Stephenson
#49. They do not air 'GH' in Holland, so I don't get recognized. But the Dutch are wonderfully unimpressed with celebrity, so even if the show did play over there it probably wouldn't affect things much. It's a wonderful life and I am so blessed.
Anthony Geary
#50. I am resolved, to go and plant myself in Holland or in Zeeland, and there await the issue which it shall please Him to ordain.
William The Silent
#51. Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker. You can't tell him too much, else it might spoil his spirit, you know.
Miles Davis
#52. After immortal feats-of-arms at Narvik, in Holland, at Eben Emael, at Korinth, on Crete and at Leningrad, these men held the encircled airfield at Anissowo-Gorodischtsche in bitter close combat against Soviet divisions.
Frank Kurowski
#53. What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.
Pamela Sargent
#54. 'The Voice Kids' was a tremendous success in Holland. There was a big emotional reaction from the parents of the children taking part.
John De Mol Jr.
#55. If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.
Richard Rogers
#56. Little things about the Pilgrims surprised me. For instance, the fact that the first duel in America was fought at Plymouth by two teenaged boys over a girl. The life the Pilgrims led in Holland before coming to America also surprised me.
Ann Rinaldi
#57. Everyone wants to be king," said Vortalis. "Not me," said Holland. "Well, then you're either a liar or a fool.
V.E Schwab
#58. I keep wondering, if all of it is my fault. Where does it start, Tieren? With Holland's choice, or with mine?"
The priest looked at him, eyes bright within his tired face, and shook his head. For once, the old man didn't seem to have the answer.
V.E Schwab
#59. Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.
Stone Gossard
#60. Help requires trust," said Kell. "Hardly," countered Holland. "Only mutual interest.
V.E Schwab
#61. Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.
Afrojack
#62. My idol was always Romario. He was playing in Holland at the time and I loved him. His skills, technique, I loved him he was my hero. I liked his whole game. One moment it would be like he was sleeping and then another moment he would change the game.
Rafael Van Der Vaart
#63. I don't like being on television when I'm playing live. I don't even like being on Jools Holland or any of them programs.
Noel Gallagher
#64. Holland gets by on a total of four food additives; we have over 1,400.
Fred Richmond
#65. The thing that impressed itself most on me in Holland was the thoroughness of the agriculture and the excellence of the Holstein cattle. I
Booker T. Washington
#66. do they not tell us more of the real spirit of the Italian Renaissance, of the dream of Savonarola and of the sin of Borgia, than all the brawling boors and cooking women of Dutch art can teach us of the real spirit of the history of Holland?
Oscar Wilde
#67. I have a European Fanclub that's based in Holland, and I had to have that President of the Fanclub to get me a number of recordings that I hadn't had the foresight to collect myself.
Gloria Gaynor
#68. I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland. And
Corrie Ten Boom
#69. God doesn't give up. His love is greater than our refusal to listen. - Richard Holland -
Gary Chapman
#70. 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
#71. Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#72. If Holland recovers consciousness, tell him we'll get him to a healer just as soon as we can," I told them. "You may not want to let him see his arm lying there, though. That's an awfully startling thing to see when you just come to your senses."
- Ysolde
Katie MacAlister
#73. You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.
Graham Taylor
#74. Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.
Oliver Goldsmith
#75. 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
#76. I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.
Carice Van Houten
#77. I'm kind of well-known in Holland, which is nice. But in Holland, we're down to earth; there are no paparazzi in my garden and no autograph hunters at the door. We have 'Strictly Come Dancing,' but I've not been asked.
Marianne Vos
#78. I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see.
Alan Vega
#79. My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.
Dennis Bergkamp
#80. In Holland, we have a saying: 'A knife cuts on two sides.' With the rubber duck, I'm trying to show people what they haven't been seeing in their public space. When the rubber duck is there and when it's gone, you know.
Florentijn Hofman
#81. To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.
Ruud Gullit
#83. 'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.
Pamela Sargent
#84. From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but
James Cook
#85. Don't you loathe the word "workaholic"? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!
Diana Vreeland
#86. Look at my track record: All of the big hits we created in Holland worked globally.
John De Mol Jr.
#87. Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.
Ari Marcopoulos
#88. Of Bloemendaal was said to be one of the most beautiful in Holland. I had never seen it, only the trees at
Corrie Ten Boom
#89. I got involved in 2003, 2004, with a company called Dance4Life out of Holland.
Tiesto
#90. I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.
Luis Suarez
#91. People of the United States have to really consider whether they want to be an empire. Sweden is not worried about terrorism. New Zealand is not worried about terrorism. Holland is not worried about terrorism. Why not be a modest little country without all of these enormous ambitions?
Howard Zinn
#92. Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.
Afrojack
#93. I learned English at school, or at least that's how it started. Also, in Holland - as opposed to some other European countries - we don't dub anything, so as a kid growing up, always watching English and American movies in their original language really helped.
Michiel Huisman
#94. 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
#95. Start small; get to know the landscape. We take risks but not major risks. We always started with small capital - €4m in Holland, $10m in Russia - and as we get to know the landscape of a country, we think about other businesses.
Husnu Ozyegin
#96. Authorities in New York City have foiled a plot by terrorists to blow up the Holland Tunnel. There was one awkward moment when officials informed President Bush the Holland Tunnel was safe. Bush then thanked the Dutch authorities for all their help.
Jay Leno
#97. Do you know what makes you weak?" said Holland. "You've never had to be strong. You've never had to try. You've never had to fight. And you've certainly never had to fight for your life.
V.E Schwab
#98. It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.
Dudley North
#99. Most directors that I've worked with - I've worked with before, especially in Holland - and they know that I'm somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I'm like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.
Carice Van Houten
#100. You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city.
Jonathan Richman
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