The sun flag of the great Comrade Kim Il Sung and Comrade Kim Jong Il will forever flutter in the van of our revolutionary ranks that display only victory and honor and will always encourage and drive us toward a new victory.
Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you but my friends never leave me.
It is difficult to adapt to Van Gaal. I had a couple of rows with him.
I’ve always been really fascinated by Vincent van Gogh.
There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn’t want to go down that route.
What else do you say to Medlocke, Rossington and Van Zant? We’re talking Southern rock royalty. We’re talking Lynyrd Skynyrd. The only thing out of my mouth was when and where!
There’s no tradition today except initials, ‘CSI,’ ‘NCIS,’ all the rest. Even with reruns today, people don’t know there was a ‘Dick Van Dyke Show,’ or ‘Andy Griffith,’ or ‘Cheers.’
When you’re in a band, you spend most of your time in a van. Like, there were four of us, we toured all the time, and you’re stuck looking at three other people for a month straight. And all of those times, we all just liked making fun of people, doing impressions of people, coming up with songs.
I spent a lot of time lifting my drums into a van, playing to ten people night after night. I can’t complain about anything now. That stuff was heavy.
I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.
I was such a big Kiss and Van Halen fan, Yngwie Malmsteen, Racer X… all that stuff. I loved everybody.
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
I think one of my favorite directors is P.T. Anderson – living directors, I should say. And Spike Jonze is one of my favorites, Gus Van Sant.
Being a purple van man means I have my own perspective on things.
I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.
When I started we were travelling in vans, at that time we couldn’t afford B&Bs, so after the gig the band would all climb in the back of the van with our fish and chips and then wake up in the morning – six sweaty musicians, all the gear around us, and you’d think ‘oh god.’
You live such a weird life while you’re out on the tour. You’re in a van or an airplane more than you are anything else.
I’ve had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.
Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don’t. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
Some people are drawn to a van Gogh or a Rembrandt. Some are attracted to exotic guns. Coins. Stamps. I am attracted to cars.
The best and most important step of my career was when I moved here – and Louis van Gaal brought me from Madrid to Bayern. It was the best move of my career, and it’s thanks to him.
It’s not only Van Dijk who can stop Ronaldo. But Ronaldo is good enough to create against really good defenders.
And at five o’clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.
We would rent this old van and drive anywhere we could get in 10-to-12 hours. We scraped by with little money, but there’s a lot to be said for those days. We were naive, but there was no pressure and a lot of freedom.
I don’t think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren’t poor. Everything was very normal.
I’d love to work with Julia Roberts and Johnny Depp or Dick Van Dyke. I love ‘Mary Poppins’ – when I was little I was obsessed with it.
Who can deny that it was a pleasure to watch Rob Van Dam interact with the audience and tear the house down for 30 minutes a night.
I would say Karan Patel’s vanity van is my favourite hangout spot.
As a private person I think I am now totally different from Ruud van Nistelrooy the footballer.
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.
When I was younger my idols were Marco van Basten and Ruud Gullit.
Did Robert De Niro actually look like Al Capone in ‘The Untouchables?’ Or did Van Kilmer look like Jim Morrison in ‘The Doors?’ No. It’s the core, the essence of the personality that matters.
People can see you on TV sloshing paint around with big four-inch brushes, and I learned to talk to camera in a friendly voice, not talking down to people, just explaining what I was doing. People like Picasso, Van Gogh, and Rembrandt did not have a weekly TV programme where people could see them painting.
I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn’t move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I’d never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the ‘Buffy’ and ‘Angel’ writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
The thing I remember most about Tottenham is when Van der Vaart played for them in the Champions League. In Holland, people follow Tottenham Hotspur.
Stevie Van Zandt could not walk on to a set and act. I don’t know how actors do that! It’s the scariest thing in the world.
In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang ’em, I gave myself goosebumps.
You’re going to feel every bit of Stan Van Gundy’s frustration if his team had a tough quarter.
When I was busking, when I was paying for petrol with silver coins or when I was sneaking into hostels so I could park my van up and sleep in it, I had the best time of my life.
