Quotes and Sayings about Amsterdam

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

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We need to stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands.

Geert Wilders - Februar 2008

Netherlands

There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures... and the Dutch.

Nigel Powers in Austin Powers - Goldmember

Funny Quotes Netherlands

Dutch food is terrible, I think. What sort of person starts the day with egg and cheese?

John Cooper Clarke

Netherlands

Nice try. You see, the Netherlands is this make-believe place where Peter Pan and Tinkerbell come from.

Joey Tribbiani in Friends - Season 3 Episode 9

Peter Pan Netherlands

Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern;
put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage;
put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing;
put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.

Josh Billings

USA England & Great Britain Ireland Netherlands

Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to the Netherlands - and that's practically the same thing.

Netherlands

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy!

Anne Frank

Happiness

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Anne Frank

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Anne Frank

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

Change Motivation Minutes

Because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank - Tagebucheintrag

Courage

The hell with the rules! If it sounds right, then it is.

Eddie Van Halen

Rules

Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Schlitz Malt talls. My brother would go out at 7pm to party and get laid, and when he'd come back at 3am, I would still be sitting in the same place, playing guitar. I did that for years - I still do that.

Eddie Van Halen

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

Eddie Van Halen

There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started.

Eddie Van Halen

I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.

Eddie Van Halen

To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.

Johan Cruyff

Quotes about Football/Soccer

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

Johan Cruyff

Advantages & Disadvantages

I don't want to be a thief of my own wallet.

Johan Cruyff

The most important part are the fans, that people going home are happy. It's their time off, and you should give them something to enjoy.

Johan Cruyff

Coincidence is logical.

Johan Cruyff

Congratulation on signing the best coach in the world.

Louis van Gaal - 1991, on becoming Coach at Ajax

Funny Football Quotes Ajax Amsterdam

Am I the one who's so smart, or are you so stupid?

Louis van Gaal

I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice.

Louis van Gaal

Running is for animals. You need a brain and a ball for football.

Louis van Gaal

Quotes about Football/Soccer

The Bavarian attitude to life suits me perfectly. Why? Bayerns motto is Mia san mia, We are who we are and I am who I am: confident, arrogant, dominant, honest, hard-working and innovative.

Louis van Gaal (as coach at Bayern Munich)

Bayern Munich

If you're alone and you need a friend
Someone to make you forget your problems
Just come along, baby, take my hand
I'll be your lover tonight

Vengaboys - Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!!

If your love's gone away just like mine you feel like crying
Sing along maybe once maybe twice, let's try it together
Some sweet day no one knows he'll return and you'll be happy
Shout it sweet in a song, listen to your heart it is singin'

Vengaboys - Shalala Lala, Album: The Platinum Album

There's a boy in my mind and he knows I'm thinkin' of him
All my way to the day and the night the stars shine above me
He's been gone for some time but I know I truly love him
And I'm singing a song, hoping he'll be back when he hears it

Vengaboys - Shalala Lala, Album: The Platinum Album

Whoah! We're going to Ibiza
Whoah! Back to the island
Whoah! We're gonna have a party
Whoah! In the Mediterranean Sea

Vengaboys - We're Going to Ibiza, Album: The Party Album

Ibiza

The Vengabus is coming
And everybody's jumping
New York to San Fransisco
An intercity disco
The wheels of steel are turning
And traffic lights are burning
So if you like to party
Get on and move your body

Vengaboys - We Like to Party

Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.

Terry Pratchett - Carpe Jugulum

Witches & Wizards

But what's the point of breathing if somebody already tells you the difference between an apple and a bicycle? If I bite a bicycle and ride an apple, then I'll know the difference.

Axel Blackmar in Arizona Dream

Bicycles Apples

Harvey Dent: "When their enemies were at the gates, the Romans would suspend democracy and appoint one man to protect the city. It wasn't considered an honor, it was considered a public service."
Rachel Dawes: "Harvey, the last man who they appointed the Republic was named Caesar and he never gave up his power."
Harvey Dent: "Okay, fine. you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain..."

Harvey Dent in Batman - The Dark Knight

Julius Caesar Rome

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Vienna - which is kinda the same.

Vienna

Every time I describe a city, I'm saying something about Venice. The images from memory, once fixed in words, are erased. Maybe I'm afraid of losing Venice at once, if I'm talking about it. speaking in other cities, I have already lost it, little by little.

Invisible City

Venice

So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

Madeline Wheeler in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 3

Paris

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 1 Episode 11

Sex New York City

We stole the Statue of Liberty! The small one, from Las Vegas. I won't even mention the Eiffel Tower - also Vegas.

Gru in Despicable Me

Las Vegas

One of the main differences between Munich and Berlin is that when thousands of people get drunk in silly clothes and start vomitting, we don't call it "Oktoberfest", we call it "Tuesday".

Felix Lobrecht

Berlin Munich Oktoberfest

It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

Charles Dickens

London

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