Dien Quotes & Sayings

Concern for the environment is a central tent of Islam, yet in contemporary debates over environmental issues there has been virtually no reference made to Islamic teaching — Mawil Izzi Dien

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote. — Casper Van Dien

I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball. — Casper Van Dien

I do really crazy things all the time, but I can't think of anything offhand. — Casper Van Dien

I eat five to seven meals a day and a couple of protein shakes. — Casper Van Dien

Growing up, my favorite TV show was Star Trek. — Casper Van Dien

I play a huge variety of roles. — Casper Van Dien

We make a lot of mistakes for women, and we'll always do it again. — Casper Van Dien

I like movies that challenge people to recognize different things. — Casper Van Dien

And I certainly intend to direct someday. — Casper Van Dien

Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to. — Casper Van Dien

I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain. — Casper Van Dien

Tim Burton ... as an actor you wait and wish and hope and pray you'll work with him. — Casper Van Dien

I don't drink. I don't do drugs. — Casper Van Dien

You're not like other Wasps."
"Aren't I?" Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. "No doubt you've killed my kinsmen by the score."
"A few," Salma allowed.
"Well, next time you shed my kinden's blood, think on this: we are but men, no less nor more than other men, and we strive and feel joy and fail as men have always done. We live in the darkness that is the birthright of us all, that of hurt and ignorance, only sometimes ... sometimes there comes the sun." He let the bowl fall from his fingers to the floor, watching it spin and settle, unbroken. — Adrian Tchaikovsky

I do most of my own stunts because the stunt guys show me how. — Casper Van Dien

I guess there was some Casper guy, like, 10 generations ago who I'm named after. I'm the 11th. My son is Casper the XII. — Casper Van Dien

I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day. — Casper Van Dien

I'd like to continue to act and also produce. — Casper Van Dien

The one in the movie is not real, but my Casper tattoo is real, and it is my only one. — Casper Van Dien

Green is my favorite. And it's my favorite because it's the color of my wife's eyes, grass, trees, life, and money, and mother earth! — Casper Van Dien

And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing. — Casper Van Dien

In Collegium it had been the fashion, while he had been resident there, to paint death as a grey-skinned, balding Beetle man in plain robes, perhaps with a doctor's bag but more often an artificer's toolstrip and apron, like the man who came in, at the close of the day, to put out the lamps and still the workings of the machines.
Among his own people, death was a swift insect, gleaming black, its wings a blur - too fast to be outrun and too agile to be avoided, the unplumbed void in which he swam was but the depth of a single facet of its darkly jewelled eyes. — Adrian Tchaikovsky

Unlike the huge majority of the current generation in the West, the men on both sides at Dien Bien Phu did not live at a time or in places where they enjoyed the luxury of disregarding [that war is what human beings do]; and we, who are lifelong civilians, have not earned the right to sit in judgement over them. — Martin Windrow

Vietminh aggression." In the following months, Eisenhower began sending money and munitions to the French. In January of 1954, Eisenhower sent twenty five B-26 medium bombers to the French base at Dien Ben Phu along with spare parts and 200 mechanics to support them. By the end of March 1954, French forces continued to suffer huge losses at Dien Ben Phu and their Northern outposts. In spite of the influx of US military aid, they lost all their airfields and they had to parachute reinforcements and new supplies. The Vietminh continued major victories as they encircled Dien Ben Phu and its outlying outposts. The war was going very — Sean Mikell

In Tarzan I only had to worry about the bees. — Casper Van Dien

I've always loved writing. — Casper Van Dien

I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately. — Casper Van Dien

Oh, I wouldn't want to go on a date with a female celebrity. I'd rather go on a date with a real woman. — Casper Van Dien

I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet. — Casper Van Dien

I eat really healthy, and if I'm tired, I take a nap. — Casper Van Dien

I like the way that different people recognise me for the roles I done. — Casper Van Dien

It would be Spiderman. I'd love to be Peter Parker. — Casper Van Dien

If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World. — John Pilger