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.
One of the benefits for me of starting late in this business is I realised that if acting was the only thing I could do, I would struggle, so I always wrote as well.
Only God can look at somebody's heart.
There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.
There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
The only time I ever spend alone is when I am working or when my husband is away filming. I put the kids to bed and have an hour and a half in the evening for myself.
Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
The society based on production is only productive, not creative.
The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.
These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.
Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
It used to be only yoga, but now I do Pilates as well; I feel like I need the balance.
A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.
The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.
Comedy is only as stupid as you are smart.
Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.
Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.
My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
I been getting good crowds. It only took 50 years.
I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
We're chipping away at our capacity for wonder. When hologram TVs eventually go on sale, they'll cost £20,000 and be bought only by those strange, heroic, friendless men who live in flats piled high with giant 80s mobiles and DVD players weighing eight stone.
When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
There is a continuous stream of opinions on governance issues expressed daily, not only in our Parliament and in the print media, but also on talk-radio and social media.
We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.
