Jean Van Hamme quote: "Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!"

I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in tr...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more con...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

The action films I will make in the future will be more believable and character-based. I am now on ...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

I'm a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my p...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to kno...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

Perhaps I shouldn't repeat this conversation.
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

I have to reinvent the brand name, because I'm a brand name. Arnold (Schwarzenegger) knew how to do ...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age.
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

I love karate, it's like a bible to me. But deep inside I'm so I mean, I'm so sensitive.
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

I've got a talent to act. No matter what any newspapers say about me I'm one of the most sensitive h...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hittin...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

This is Lilly Heaven saying good night, and to all a very good night. Good night everybody. Here's w...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN ITALLIE

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me...
JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME

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

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

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He return...
JEAN COCTEAU

The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and...
JEAN PAUL

The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.
JEAN INGELOW

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
JEAN GIRAUDOUX

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
JEAN INGELOW

My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with...
WYCLEF JEAN

Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't...
WYCLEF JEAN

In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and...
JEAN SEBERG

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t...
JEAN PAUL

Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture....
JEAN CHATZKY

One way to make sure you don't lose assets in the future is to streamline your accounts. Conside...
JEAN CHATZKY

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head...
JEAN GIRAUDOUX

If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of ...
JEAN CHATZKY

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
JEAN PAUL

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poki...
JEAN HARRIS

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
JEAN PAUL

Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices s...
JEAN CHATZKY

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of th...
JEAN ROSTAND

A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy because the p...
JEAN KERR

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
JEAN PAUL

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in...
WYCLEF JEAN

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
JEAN TOOMER

Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
WYCLEF JEAN

The look of a king is itself a deed.
JEAN PAUL

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
JEAN COCTEAU

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You m...
JEAN KERR

I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei...
JEAN ROSTAND

Unlike other loans, a reverse mortgage doesn't have to be repaid until the borrower moves out of...
JEAN CHATZKY

A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit ...
JEAN LUSH

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
JEAN ROSTAND

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than...
JEAN ROSTAND

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, wit...
JEAN ROSTAND

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
JEAN ROSTAND

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to cre...
JEAN ROSTAND

The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons.
JEAN RENOIR

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
JEAN ROSTAND

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

She said, "As long as we're with each other--"
"We know we're in exactly the right place," he f...
JEAN FERRIS

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
JEAN ROSTAND

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, an...
JEAN ROSTAND

She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimm...
JEAN RHYS

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
JEAN ROSTAND

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
JEAN ROSTAND

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
JEAN ROSTAND

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the...
JEAN KERR

Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understa...
JEAN ROSTAND

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains...
JEAN ROSTAND

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
JEAN ROSTAND

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains t...
JEAN ROSTAND

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND

God, that checkroom of our dreams.
JEAN ROSTAND

I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. ...
JEAN FERRIS

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d...
JEAN PIAGET

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of ...
JEAN PIAGET

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pe...
JEAN KERR

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
JEAN PAUL

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
JEAN ROSTAND

The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after dange...
JEAN PAUL

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit...
JEAN VANIER

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.
JEAN COCTEAU

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.
JEAN RHYS

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
JEAN GENET

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole arra...
JEAN ROSTAND

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a...
JEAN GENET

Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's v...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
JEAN RACINE

Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!

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Jean Van Hamme

Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!

Jean Van Hamme

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