Van Quotes

It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.

In death metal, a lot of guys are Eddie Van Halen disciples, but they take his style to really expressionistic places. It's a real pleasure for me to hear people pushing their craft.

It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players.

We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters.

I’d learned that my mother was a badass in disguise. She was Van Helsing in an apron and heels, and—at least for the time being—I couldn’t think of a single thing cooler than that.

At some point I decided I didn't want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Halen and I didn't really like Van Halen.

I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.

I'm the only choice to make a record. And that's the only way I would do it. We'd have to make some new music. The fans deserve it. Van Halen's got some of the best fans on the planet.

I really think that Van Halen has two choices if they want to continue. And maybe they don't want to continue, because they don't seem to do much.

If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.

I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.

I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..

And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

The only way to fight the darkness around us is to light a fire within us.

Most of the people of this world are asleep in their minds.

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.

How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges

The truth is helpless when up against perception

Midnight's the only time where you can be both in the past, present, and future.

If each hair on our head is accounted for

When you look at Van Gogh, Jesus, Buddha, Mother Teresa from a "fiscal" perspective, they were homeless. When you look at them from a humanityperspective, they were priceless.

Van Gogh couldn't have painted the stars in your eyes.

Lucy's polls were sometimes kind of violent.

Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it asan enemy.

A chord that becomes a melodious delusion, In polar discrepancy from blue to yellow painted, In yellow I existed, with digoxin’s deadly illusion, Like Van Gogh’s stars in a bright night untainted.

The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

To play a wrong note is insignificant

Rachel had been worried she couldn't remember what Sam looked like

Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to.

You are a side effect, " Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.

I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success.

I've found out so much about electricity that I've reached the point where I understand nothing and can explain no

There are so many different kinds of ghosts.

You can not go back. That's why it's hard to choose. You have to make the right choice. As long, as you don't choose, everything remains possible.

The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks.Moreover, it speaks of everything.

I thought about the guy in the truck, the focus in his expression, and I felt like I already knew enough of the story to tell it to somebody else maybe better than either of its major players could.

Patience, Abigail. Patience."Abigail snorted. "Patience, right. I am known for having a great handle on the Fruits of the Spirit.""Interesting. I don't recall manipulation being a Biblical virtue.

curling leaves and twining branches outside my bay window look like a Van Gogh in the starlight - there is a river out there somewhere

Mae West had it right—try anything once, do it again if you like it.

You smell wonderful, ” he told her. “So aroused.” “That's the bug spray, ” she said.

All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.

Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’slike to be dying, and (b) not have died.

As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.

Mortal minds are always unsettled by eternal things

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.[Carnap’s famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]