By this time it was past six, and the enemy's van and ours were at too great a distance to engage, I perceived some of their ships stretching to the northward; and I imagined they were going to form a new line.
The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.
My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing.
As a small child, me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van. To have ice creams on demand would have been a dream come true.
I've wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydream. Like owning the 'A-Team' van or something.
The two favorite episodes of 'Lost' that Adam and I wrote were 'Dave,' which was where Hurley has an imaginary friend, and 'Trisha Tanaka is Dead,' where Hurley finds a van and starts it.
I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.
One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all night and escorted me in and out of buildings when I wanted to wash.
And then Dick called and said, I'm going to do a special called Dick Van Dyke and the other woman, that would be you, because every time I try to check into a hotel with my wife, they look at me as though I'm cheating on Laura.
Alex: It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now to give it the perfect ending was a bit of the old Ludwig van.
Wikus Van De Merwe: Could you go a bit slower with the clicks there, it sounded like you said *three years*...
[Wikus walks into a room filled with Alien weaponry] Wikus Van De Merwe: This is Christmas. This is Christmas, my friends! This is the biggest find that I've ever seen.
Wikus Van De Merwe: [talking to a prawn in District 9] We drinking a little bit here, eh? [the prawn vomits at Wikus's feet]
Van Helsing: We have learned much. Dracula fears us. He fears time. For if he does not, why does he hurry so.
Van Houten: She thinks I have a drinking problem. Lidewij: I also think the Earth is round.
Kevin Doyle: [to Eddie about meeting Van Loon] Now be warned - he's mercurial - one minute your best friend, the next you're a leper.
Charles Van Doren: I've been swarmed by stockbrokers lately; I feel like a girl with a bad reputation.
Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: Most girls would give their eyes for the chance to see Monte! Maxim de Winter: Wouldn't that RATHER defeat the purpose?
Mrs. Edythe Van Hopper: [after hearing about the first Mrs. De Winter's engagement with Maxim] Tennis lessons my foot!
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Good-bye, Ichabod Crane. I curse the day you came to Sleepy Hollow.
Katrina Anne Van Tassel: I think you have no heart. And I had a mind once to give you mine.
