
BBC World interview (2003)
Sunday Times interview (1980)
BBC World interview (2003)
“There was only one way to get through the rest of the evening and it wasn't sober.”
Source: Kiss and Make Up
Nobel lecture (2005)
Context: There are three main features to this changing landscape: the emergence of an extensive black market in nuclear material and equipment; the proliferation of nuclear weapons and sensitive nuclear technology; and the stagnation in nuclear disarmament.
Today, with globalization bringing us ever closer together, if we choose to ignore the insecurities of some, they will soon become the insecurities of all.
The Man Who Sold the World
Song lyrics, The Man Who Sold the World (1970)
“Is life a boon?
If so it must befall
That death when e're he call
Must call too soon.”
The Yeomen of the Guard (1888)
“Why reel I thus, confused and blind?
What madness mars my sober mind?”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book XII, p. 436
translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek
version in Dutch (citaat van Jozef Israëls, in het Nederlands): ..maar, ik moet ze [een schets van moeder met kind aan de borst] heel gauw terug hebben, want ik hecht eraan.. .Zoo'n schets is een deel van mijn leven; die blijft altijd. Die gebruik ik tien, twintig maal.. .'t Is een basis, waar ik op bouw.
Quoted by N.H. Wolf, in 'Bij onze Nederlandsche kunstenaars. IV. - Jozef Israëls, Grootmeester der Nederlandsche Schilders', in Wereldkroniek, 8 Feb. 1902
Wolf wanted to lent the sketch to have a good photo taken of it for his article about Israëls
Quotes of Jozef Israels, after 1900
Source: Why Men Marry Bitches: A Woman's Guide to Winning Her Man's Heart