Belgium Quote by Nicholas Royle Download Open image “Belgium is a country with a split personality.” — Nicholas Royle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Belgium Country Patriotism Personality Split personality Splits
Maybe from the outside, Belgium looks complicated to understand, but from the inside, actually, every country is complicated. — Vincent Kompany Copy Share Image
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in my neighborhood, there was nobody that supported Belgium. It was impossible and unthinkable because there was nothing they… — Vincent Kompany Copy Share Image
Belgium thinks that however great the peril which a country might have to undergo under the system which we seek to establish here, that… — Henri La Fontaine Copy Share Image
We are proud of our ridiculousness. That's what made our Surrealism. Proud and ashamed of everything at the same time. I think that's my… — Stromae Copy Share Image
Belgium is half French-speaking and half Flemish, and I was born on the French side. So we spoke it a lot - like, in… — Stella Maxwell Copy Share Image
I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture. — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
I was raised in Brussels as a Belgian but, at the same time, feeling that I wasn't necessarily from here. — Stromae Copy Share Image
I think we don't need some people in Brussels trying to run countries that are some distance apart, who don't speak the same language,… — Bernie Ecclestone Copy Share Image
The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I have no patience with up-themselves authors who complain about having to trail round a few bookshops signing stock. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic. — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
“The uncanny is not a literary genre. But nor is it a non-literary genre. It overflows the very institution of literature. It inhabits, haunts,… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes,… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
The Belgians tend to downplay the cultural divide issue, and the far-right issue, but there's a staggering degree of casual racism in Belgium, much… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
What the short story needs above all is for one of the big publishers to get an equivalent series up and running and to… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
Who was it recently invented some machine that will enable her to sign a book from 5,000 miles away? Margaret Atwood. Get off your… — Nicholas Royle Copy Share Image
How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They… — W. Averell Harriman Copy Share Image
I was born in Belgium and moved to Amsterdam when I was 17. I am not a Calvinist Dutchman but a Catholic Belgian. I… — Eddy de Clercq Copy Share Image
“I've always liked Belgian waffles, but I must say, I didn't think I would one day be having Belgian waffles in Belgium! I just… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave… — Frank B. Kellogg Copy Share Image
“I also liked they Belgian brewers are notoriously rebellious and mock Americans’ obsession with categorizing beers by style; I saw them as arrogant expressionists… — Lucy Burningham Copy Share Image
I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda metastasize. It… — Tom Ridge Copy Share Image
One time we played a concert in Antwerp, Belgium. At least I thought it was Antwerp, Belgium. Turns out it was a Stop 'n… — Slash Copy Share Image
Eight minutes past the hour here in Belgium - and presumably eight minutes past the hour everywhere in the world. — Murray Walker Copy Share Image
WhatsApp provides phone-number-based messaging, and people asked, 'Isn't that what SMS is?' Yes, but SMS is expensive, antiquated, and what WhatsApp did was modernize… — Brian Acton Copy Share Image
“The negro workers are still unaware of the force that can give them union organization; happy industrialists.” — King Albert I of Belgium Copy Share Image
