Scheveningen Quotes

#1. was stopped on the street by a Dutch policeman, who ordered her to slowly speak the words Scheveningen and schapenscheerder. The Dutch police were trying to weed out Germans posing as Dutch, who most likely would not be able to pronounce those Dutch words.

Kathryn J. Atwood

#2. In a way, Strandbeests have turned into migration animals, and the step counter gives them an idea of where they are. While counting their steps, they know more or less where they are between Kijkduin and Scheveningen.

Theo Jansen

#3. Mrs. Vandor said, with her eyes closed, I wouldn't make that kind of thing a habit. One wishes to be useful, but not indispensably so.

Amy Bloom

#4. I have often said in answer to inquiries as to how I got away with kidding some of our public men, that it was because I liked all of them personally, and that if there was no malice in your heart there could be none in your "Gags", and I have always said I never met a man I dident like.

Will Rogers

#5. Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)

Anton Chekhov

#6. Unless you Believe in yourself, everybody see you as an ordinary stone, not Diamond.

Mohith Agadi

#7. Love, when it is pure, has a revitalizing effect upon others, and in the presence of a truly loving person others grow and expand into a healthier state of being. Without deep reverence for the beloved, such a refreshing stream cannot flow from the heart of the lover.

Vatsyayana

#8. But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness.

Virginia Woolf

#9. If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it's an error not an end.

Lysa TerKeurst

#10. When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.

Jack Gleeson

#11. I will never forget that the passing down of memories is the strongest link in the gossamer bridge that binds up as people. I plan to devote my live to doing just that. And if you've taught me anything, it's that what we hold in our hearts is truly the fierest component of our humanity.

David Baldacci

#12. An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for astrict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#13. Why you have so much books?" Mr. Nacifi asks me. I glance at my overflowing bookcases. "I love reading." His eyes narrow like I just said that I love terrorists.

John McLean

#14. Think for tomorrow but act for today.

Mahatma Gandhi