For my part, I would say that the male sperm and seeds of plants have been penetrated so far that there is nothing further to discover in this great secret, but I could err in my opinion.


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VINCENT VAN GOGH
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
The way to know life is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wris...
HARRIET VAN HORNE
One who roams the channels after dark, searching for buried treasure.
HARRIET VAN HORNE
The people under our system, like the king in a monarchy, never dies.
MARTIN VAN BUREN
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by se...
VINCENT VAN GOGH
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most hone...
MARTIN VAN BUREN
I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.
GUS VAN SANT
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these...
VINCENT VAN GOGH
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and a...
VINCENT VAN GOGH
If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the...
EDDIE VAN HALEN
I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsessio...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT
When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN
Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiven...
DICK VAN DYKE
Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and I were so different from each other. I was doing very young movi...
MAMIE VAN DOREN
I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a ...
MAMIE VAN DOREN
I have never been a Marilyn Monroe wannabe. I have always been happy in my own skin!
MAMIE VAN DOREN
I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
MAMIE VAN DOREN
My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
MAMIE VAN DOREN
I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
MAMIE VAN DOREN
I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to...
MAMIE VAN DOREN
It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
MAMIE VAN DOREN
When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it...
DICK VAN DYKE
There doesn't seem to be a religion in 'Game of Thrones' that's totally peaceful... ...
CARICE VAN HOUTEN
I grew up in Los Angeles, and I was always fascinated by the La Brea Tar Pits. Right in the middle o...
GREG VAN EEKHOUT
Boycotts are not something to be taken lightly.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT
With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between t...
MARTIN VAN BUREN
But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Four things a man must learn to doIf he would make his record true:To think without confusion clearl...
HENRY VAN DYKE
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at th...
HENRY VAN DYKE
I am standing upon the seashore. A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and...
HENRY VAN DYKE
When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially...
EDDIE VAN HALEN
On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN
Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
EDDIE VAN HALEN
If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN
I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the wo...
EDDIE VAN HALEN
And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all...
EDDIE VAN HALEN
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of cr...
EDDIE VAN HALEN
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it a...
EDDIE VAN HALEN
I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started d...
EDDIE VAN HALEN
I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from ev...
EDDIE VAN HALEN
It's always about the music, never about anything else.
EDDIE VAN HALEN
A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiri...
EDDIE VAN HALEN
Cancer is like a cockroach. It just comes back stronger. I'm tearing apart the immune system of ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN