Browsing Topic Best Amsterdam Quotes

I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I’m wearing a dagger!

We are men on a budget. I mean, why go all the way to Amsterdam when you can just go to Harry Hines?

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.

New Amsterdam Records, a new label run by composers, has begun documenting this hybrid music, with invigorating discs by the band itsnotyouitsme and the composers Corey Dargel and William Brittelle.

When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in Florida, in New York, in Amsterdam and L.A., when your wife is dying and your son abandons you, you don’t feel very good.

I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.

In a city like London, the fact that cultures live together and cross-fertilize is a beautiful and natural thing. The many cultures in Amsterdam contribute to the city’s high level of craziness – something which every interesting city should offer. But sometimes immigrants can live in parallel worlds which can exclude others and not be very attractive.

Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.

The approach to that movie wasn’t, ‘Lets make this movie about Amsterdam and maple syrup.’ The concept was, ‘Lets go to Amsterdam. Amsterdam is fun.’ So we flew to Amsterdam with our cameras and we saw what happened and then we got back and we sat down and we said, ‘What’s the movie here.’ That’s when we realized that the movie was ‘The Maple Syrup Saga’.

And our wise Father in heaven knows when we’re going to need things too. Don’t run out ahead of Him.

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.

Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support this confrontation of the Netherlands’ violently passive aggressive racist traditions, by an American Southern, aggressive aggressive. She’s a top notch thinker and lover of questions.

In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy’s bronzed arms.

‘Cause I’m just – I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book is over, and I just don’t want my particular life, and also the sky is depressing me, and there is this old swing set out here that my dad made for me when I was a kid.’ ‘I must see this old swing set of tears immediately,’ he said. ‘I’ll be over in twenty minutes.’

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

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.

Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

I was told David Letterman and Kaufman had heart attacks on the same day: David Letterman’s heart attack was at a hospital in NYC. Kaufman’s heart attack was at the red light district in Amsterdam, Holland. I think Kaufman had more fun. You’re a great artist. I just love the way you painted my portrait.

In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church’s east corner is crowded.

Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa.

So how’s it going? Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU? Yeah, I said. Sucks, he said. I’m a lot better now, I said. I’m going to Amsterdam tomorrow with Gus. I know. I’m pretty well up-to-date on your life, because Gus never. Talks. About. Anything. Else.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

…And in freedom, most people find sin.

And call me a pig, but isn’t it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they’re still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they’re hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.

People always get used to beauty, though. I haven’t gotten used to you just yet, he answered, smiling. I felt myself blushing. Thank you for coming to Amsterdam, he said. Thank you for letting me hijack your wish, I said. Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa

Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There’s likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block – West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues – than in all of Amsterdam’s or Hamburg’s galleries.

From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage’s plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.

Although I miss my family and friends when I’m away from Amsterdam, I’ve never had that feeling of missing a city like I have with New Orleans. Especially for the music.

I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That’s because they haven’t been exposed enough.

I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It’s fresh and so open. It’s definitely one of my favorite places.

I’m really big on family. I’ll love catching up with my cousins. Everyone’s in their twenties, so they’re all on their grind at the moment, but when we get the time, I’ll fly everybody to Amsterdam or Ibiza, and we can just hang for a week, chill, do nothing.