Florentijn Hofman Quotes

I used to get a lot of rubber ducks on my birthdays as presents because, you know, I make rubber ducks. But then I get the ugliest ones with a neck, ugly colors, and devil ears. I don't like those.

Florentijn Hofman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: April 16, 1977

Topics

UglyColorsDevilYouKnowNeck

We live in a crazily youth-orientated world nowadays. It's a trickle-down thing. We see pictures of lithe, attractive celebrity couples such as Brad and Angelina or the Beckhams cavorting around, covered in tattoos, stomachs as flat as the singing in early 'X Factor' rounds.

John Niven

LiveSingingWorldEarlyPictures

My calendar was empty. Touring the way we did and having a schedule like we did institutionalizes you in a way where you don't know anything else. I think I went through the darkest depression I've ever felt in my life.

Andy Hurley

LifeDepressionThinkMy LifeYou

I always like to play. I cannot sit down and see what's going to happen, because it's boring.

Miguel Cabrera

DownPlayBoringAlwaysSeeHappen

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.

Mike McCurry

ChangeMeChurchPoliticalLost

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

Louis L'Amour

LifeDeterminationGreatBookBegins

When it comes to my salvation, all I need is Jesus; after my salvation, everything is Jesus plus the church... When people preach that all you need is Jesus, they cut you and I off from one of the greatest sources of healing, which is the body of Christ. Don't go it alone - you won't make it.

Josh McDowell

AloneHealingPeopleChurchBodyGo

New Orleans is a place where people are deliberately undereducated so that they can be a labour class - the economy there is tourism, and one of the only outlets that black males have traditionally been allowed is to play jazz music, y'know?

Christian Scott

MusicPeopleBlackPlacePlayJazz

On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

Anthony Shadid

MyselfWarWorldEnjoyCareerNever

The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

Percy Ross

WaitingWorldWishesYourGrant

I work hard, but in spurts.

Tim Ferriss

WorkWork HardHard

To me, personally, my development to become a head coach will be much better working for Coach Saban than necessarily going somewhere else because you learn every day that you're in there.

Kirby Smart

DayMeBetterLearnYouEvery Day

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

Henri Frederic Amiel

LifeArtBe TrueMoralAuthorityUs

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