Top 923 Quotes & Sayings by Danish Authors - Page 13

To get a good deal, I buy them all with a friend. The houses, the boat, everything. We each buy half. So I pay half price! They get used more.

I don't know - the whole leading man, I don't buy it.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

Some people try and tell you what the songs are about and it bores me to death.

I would be the worst biologist in the world!

I only had good years with Frank de Boer. I don't have anything bad to say about him.

The Messi of the early years was a phenomenon, but he always wanted to finish off the move. Now he goes past one, two, or three players and is happy to give an assist to a team-mate - it makes him more dangerous and more difficult to stop than ever before.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise.

Women, nowhere in the world, have the kind of important position in society in the amount that they ought to have.

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

Greenland is not for sale.

I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time.

If we don't do our job well, then there's no doubt that big, strong companies like Amazon will look into whether they can do better themselves.

For me, it is becoming increasingly clear that the price of unregulated globalisation, mass immigration and the free movement of labour is paid for by the lower classes.

Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

I wish I loved to run, because I'd love to run through Central Park or on vacation on the beach, but I absolutely hate it.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do not fly (Apteryx, Penguins) show these adaptations in a greatly reduced form.

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.

I've tried to pitch 'Borgen - the Musical,' but they just won't listen to me!

There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing.

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.

Leisure activities such as contemplation, going for a stroll or a bike ride boost our overall health, wellbeing, and creativity.

Apparently, my mother still thought I had too much energy so she signed me up for a local theatre group, marking the beginning of my career.

First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

We never thought the films would be so famous for so long. We were just happy to do things. It was more bohemian. We knew we were doing something we liked and it was not like everyone else. It was a happy world.

Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.

Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.

Denmark can be very small, provincial, and mediocre.

This is not an election where we hand out gifts. It is an election where we ask everyone to contribute more.

Relegation means everything to a club, a city, a whole community. People lose their jobs.

If I have the choice of traveling to Russia, India or New Zealand alone for a week for preliminary discussions or to spend that week with my family, I routinely choose my family.

I grew up very active, and my parents made me try every single sport there was.

I don't sing any more. I guess I'm getting old.

It's always been a thing. Like, I don't touch my belly button. That's something nobody knows about me.

Sometimes the body just needs to take a break, and you need to listen.

I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it onto a flat piece of paper.

The Copa del Rey is a two-legged match, but it is an important game like every other.

I go every year to the Huvafen Fushi in the Maldives and it's spectacular.

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

This is something you learn as soon as you walk through the doors at Old Trafford: that you're never better than your last performance. You always have to improve on your last performance.

In 2007 and 2008, the first two Danish ships were hijacked. I started to research it. I've had the idea of writing in this arena for a long time, but I could never find the angle of what kind of story.

It's important to think about the bigger picture, especially if we are given these platforms. We can make a difference.

I bike everywhere. It's a good workout, and it's so much fun.

I think Shakespeare is everybody's treasure.

I don't believe in heaven, and I don't believe in hell as a place with flames where people are burning and having eternal pain. I don't believe in that at all. I believe in a place I call 'beyond.'

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

I don't like being away from home.

If you're mentally ready, you're willing to go the extra mile.

I'm not even on Facebook. I've got enough friends I never see. You know how you have a lot of friends you never call? I don't have time for new friends, and I don't want to be friends with someone only online.

The grass is not always greener on the other side. It is about recognising what you do have and being grateful for what you do have.

When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.

To prepare adequately for the challenge of global warming, we must acknowledge both the good and the bad that it will bring. If our starting point is to prove that Armageddon is on its way, we will not consider all of the evidence, and will not identify the smartest policy choices.

People want to make sacrifices but they don't want to be sacrificed.

I think, as human beings, we need some balance in our life, right?

I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?'