Dutch Quotes · Page 7

The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.

— Nora Ephron

What do you want?" "You," he said, his voice lowering an octave. "I want you, Dutch, body and soul. I want you…

— Darynda Jones

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

— Eddie Vedder

[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

— Mark Twain

“When Alice was younger, her father had fashioned a rough mask from evergreen needles and lake grass glued to a rotten shell…

— Tracy Guzeman

I think it's probably the Dutch who are to blame for starting the whole 'art business', because before they came along, art…

— Antony Gormley

I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a…

— Darby Stanchfield

The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“...the curious Dutch classification gedogen, which means 'technically illegal but officially tolerated.”

— Russell Shorto

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

— Rem Koolhaas

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…

— Joshua Oppenheimer

Let's recall Bosnia in 1995. As we know well, the European peacekeeping contingent, represented by the Dutch troops, did not want to…

— Vladimir Putin

Sometimes the table was graced with immense apple-pies, or saucers full of preserved peaches and pears; but it was always sure to…

— Washington Irving

“Een avontuur was niet voor lafaards, maar voor dapperlingen!”

— Leen Lefebre

As Dutch, British and French explorers literally put this Great Southern Land on the map it would be ridiculous to say that…

— Douglas Pearce

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In…

— Anonymous

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

— Eddy de Clercq

And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or…

— Stephen Briggs

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

— Pete Townshend

My father is from Brooklyn, but we spoke Dutch at home.

— Sergino Dest

Rutger Hauer is a very famous Dutch actor who did quite a lot internationally. Another Dutch actress who is working a lot…

— Michiel Huisman

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

— Angus Loughran

The Dutch are a very practical people.

— Famke Janssen

“He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the…

— Alexander McCall Smith

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

— George Thorogood