Dutch Quotes

RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.

What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?

This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.

I'm sure coach Frank Rijkaard will want the Dutch to go on and score a fourth now - although obviously they'll have to score the third one first.

I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.

I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge, so I have to go on the word of the publisher that it's a good translation.

The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.

Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.

The Dutch have a can-do mentality, anything is possible. As long as you pay for it. It is very capitalist. Quite American in a way.

When you hear the music of these celebrated Dutch superstar-DJs nowadays... my God, I wouldn't even feed their music to my dog. I don't consider that to be my sort of dance music.

Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.

Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.

A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny... some of them.

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

[European audiences differ from American] they talk different. The ones in Holland speak Dutch. The ones in Switzerland speak Swiss. That's the only difference.

Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.

I was on the pom pom team, I was on the cheerleading team, I sang. I played football with the guys 'cause I didn't know how to play double dutch. Anything to get out the house.

The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.

These are things that I continue to enjoy speaking about. The woods. Boats. Greeks. I think the real heart of it, is really being in love with these Dutch paintings over the last several years.

I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.

Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.

I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.

In Indonesian, the word isn't translating as "gangster." It's "preman", which comes from the Dutch "préman", which of course the thing that's "freeman" in English.

How could the eagle-eyed politicians of The Hague, who specialized in pointing out the tiniest specks in other people’s eyes, overlook someone riding a racist coach in their own neighborhood?

Did you know that even 50 years after all other countries had abolished slavery, the Netherlands refused to?

...Sigerius realized that every academic looked like every other academic." - Bonita Avenue, p.49

Since it has quietly began to snow, new distances have awakened within me.

¨Everything is ordinary to us until we get know its history. We start to see things differently when we do get a glimpse of its past¨

How remorseless must one be find pleasure in riding a Wilhelmina golden coach in the 21st century.

You gave me a forever within the numbered days and I'm grateful.