The first half was a lot better than the second half.
BRIAN VAN DEUSEN Daniel had his best week of the year.
BRIAN VAN DEUSEN I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything ...
VAN MORRISON You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not becau...
VAN MORRISON When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the dist...
VAN MORRISON It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all...
VAN MORRISON Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
VAN MORRISON You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
VAN MORRISON If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit...
VAN MORRISON I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
VAN MORRISON I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I ...
VAN MORRISON What you see is what you get.
VAN MORRISON The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
VAN MORRISON There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&...
VAN MORRISON A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'...
VAN MORRISON Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
VAN MORRISON I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
VAN MORRISON In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
VAN MORRISON Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
VAN MORRISON I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling ...
VAN MORRISON The future is keeping you out of the present time.
VAN MORRISON You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
VAN CLIBURN An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something...
VAN CLIBURN These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ...
VAN MORRISON If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VAN GOGH Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
VAN MORRISON Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it ...
VAN MORRISON Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur...
VAN HARTMANN There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
VAN MORRISON When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassid...
VAN MORRISON I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club...
VAN MORRISON hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul & spir...
VAN MORRISON From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on t...
VAN MORRISON Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the p...
VAN HARTMANN In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
VAN PANOPOULOS I think that's the best Tina played all year,
VAN CHANCELLOR I hadn't slept a wink in a week. I've never been in a game that meant any more to me than this game.
VAN CHANCELLOR He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.
VAN COLEMAN [In] I Forgot That Love Existed, ... If my heart could do the thinking/ And my head begin to feel/ T...
VAN MORRISON I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. Tha...
VAN MORRISON His sound was stunning -- it was the blues, it was R&B, it was gospel, it was swing -- it was all th...
VAN MORRISON [10.] Cleaning Windows ... Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast.
VAN MORRISON I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I ...
VAN MORRISON Then let's go to the funeral home. My son was beaten so badly it was unbelievable. We had to close t...
VAN HORN News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show … to damage people, to slander people. That is n...
ANITA VAN I think what the family is doing is terrible. I don't think it's their right to do these things like...
ANITA VAN This just goes to show you that what you want is a lot of people looking for stuff. You want them to...
VAN TURNER Science marches slowly, and my biggest fear all along has been that another specimen of the same ani...
VAN TURNER Give Nicole Powell credit for making a great shot,
VAN CHANCELLOR I've been tailgating here for about 15 years, and I like tailgating here better than at Auburn,
VAN HORN News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show … to damage people, to slander people. That is ...
ANITA VAN Early on in MTV's life cycle, the novelty of the video wore off.
VAN TOFFLER We had preordered and also had cheese quiche with potato crust. It was absolutely wonderful,
VAN HORN It's tough to be a really good team when you're losing guys out of your state, ... I think that's so...
VAN ALSTYNE That's how my career has been, ... It's been a battle with ups and downs.
VAN ALSTYNE It was a crime of opportunity. One of the females entered the office, there was money that had been ...
VAN ALSTYNE a small town with a big heart.
VAN ALSTYNE Great Days of Service.
VAN ALSTYNE My doctor was discouraged because the drugs that I had been taking had so many side effects, ... And...
VAN ALSTYNE There is nothing (educators) can do inside this classroom that is going to solve this problem unless...
VAN ALLEN The meet this past weekend really marked a point where we set new standards for our team at Hopkins.
VAN ALLEN We have never had this much depth on the women's sprint side. We have very healthy inter-team compet...
VAN ALLEN I couldn't be more proud of the way we're competing right now.
VAN ALLEN Having that consistency in the coaching staff has really been helping all of our athletes improve.
VAN ALLEN We are looking forward to doing a little better. We have to recharge our batteries.
VAN SWEET I guess that the homework has not been done very well.
VAN NIEUWENHUIZEN She didn't concede, and I think that was probably appropriate.
VAN COLEMAN Blake is going to be our starting third baseman. He's on a mission. I told him third base could be h...
VAN HORN It's sort of the 19th century equivalent of a blow horn, ... It was used primarily as a form of comm...
BOBBY VAN You know, every time you visit a facility, you see things that are really great, ... We don't want t...
BOBBY VAN We want to go out into different areas of the county, where it's more accessible for citizens, to gi...
BOBBY VAN I understand they've come up with some more numbers on fuel costs, but I would still like to look fo...
BOBBY VAN It would be better to issue COs than to want for the federal government to order us to build somethi...
BOBBY VAN It was approved by the president's council and the white paper was accepted.
VAN HUYSSTEEN I see the maturity of Michelle Snow, getting better and better each day.
VAN CHANCELLOR The best times we’ve had on earth are usually with those we love.
VAN HARDEN I found parts all the way from cranial elements to the tail. I found individual vertebrae and fused ...
VAN TURNER Absolutely a good idea, but I'd recommend using a grout stain instead.
VAN PURCELL I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity
VAN MORRISON I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors, ... They approached this from the po...
VAN BAKER The accessory market, I don't see them going into that in a widespread basis with lots and lots of p...
VAN BAKER The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
VAN MORRISON Jump!
VAN HALEN and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. an...
VAN MORRISON I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors. They approached this from the point ...
VAN BAKER has broken down the dam so that we can be brave, too.
VAN CLEVE First and foremost, Xbox 360 is a game machine, and so is anybody going to go out and buy an Xbox 36...
VAN BAKER Since we announced this campaign, there has been an incredible outpouring of support from the music ...
VAN TOFFLER Since we announced this campaign, there has been an incredible outpouring of support from the music ...
VAN TOFFLER A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappea...
VAN MORRISON They would often pull on his beard and say he must be the real Santa Claus,
VAN ORDEN He never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity
VAN JONES It's always the goal to come out and win. The field is definitely improving. I mean, all across the ...
LINDSAY VAN I just tried to focus on what I really needed to do. I haven't been feeling too well lately, but it ...
LINDSAY VAN Drew had a big day. He did a good job playing first base for us and made some things happen at the p...
VAN ARNOLD The media market it fragmenting like crazy right now,
VAN BAKER We do have great depth, and great depth is good,
VAN CHANCELLOR has truly recognized and received my deep love and lifetime devotion.
VAN CLIBURN He's a good, solid big-man recruit. He's long; he runs the floor really well, excellent shooting tou...
VAN COLEMAN Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, 'You will never get the girl at the end'. So I worked on ...
VAN HEFLIN Hunters need to remember that there are many other folks spending time outdoors during early Septemb...
VAN HORN Their inside game allowed them to get things done. We had too many scoring opportunities that we did...
VAN HOLT The Board can only do so much and we now have a better understanding of how this matter came to be, ...
VAN HUYSSTEEN I can't help but feel we are being used as a pawn in the political game, and I'm not going to take i...
VAN JOHNSON Darwin’s folly was barking up the wrong tree.
BRIAN Charles Darwin, and the evulation of a lie,
BRIAN A Nationalist is a defeated Republican.
BRIAN Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.
DRIES VAN NOTEN Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate.
DRIES VAN NOTEN I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.
TOWNES VAN ZANDT One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes an...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN I rewrite my books many times before submitting them, and after my editor takes a look I wind up rew...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was gr...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend ...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that t...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly wh...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through l...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authori...
VAN WYCK BROOKS The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me...
VAN WYCK BROOKS If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad j...
VAN WYCK BROOKS It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led ...
VAN WYCK BROOKS Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
VAN WYCK BROOKS Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wh...
VAN WYCK BROOKS The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
VAN WYCK BROOKS The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
VAN WYCK BROOKS Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
VAN WYCK BROOKS Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
VINCENT VAN GOGH Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I ...
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 Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like i...
EDDIE VAN HALEN The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN There are really three parts to the creative process. First there is inspiration, then there is the ...
EDDIE VAN HALEN We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
EDDIE VAN HALEN A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.
HENRY VAN DYKE Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.
HENRY VAN DYKE It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best ...
HENRY VAN DYKE To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall reall...
HENRY VAN DYKE There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad ab...
HENRY VAN DYKE Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are...
HENRY VAN DYKE In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int...
HENRY VAN DYKE Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.
HENRY VAN DYKE What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.
HENRY VAN DYKE