Top 378 Quotes & Sayings by Icelander Authors - Page 6

Brass has a very distinctive sound. It's delicate but powerful, but it's also melancholic and plaintive.

If all purchases are spontaneous and simply driven by what is seen and loved, there is a high risk of ending up with 10 cocktail dresses and no outfits for work.

When I was working at Gilt, a lot of people at the time - this is back in 2009; Gilt launched in 2007 - were making their first fashion purchases online and at a discount.

I would like to remember all and be able to forgive everything - in due course!

You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.

If you don't eat, you don't grow.

I've never been very good at creating absolute music, which has no non-musical dimension to it. I think that is why filmmakers gravitated toward my work.

To begin with, I basically ate everything. Pizza, pasta - anything to make myself bigger. I am now very conscious of what I put into my body.

I'm Icelandic, from this small country where there was very limited access to fashion when I was growing up, and so, for me, it's really important to have a product that's relevant for this global customer.

Like every other player, I want to play.

I'm the kind of a guy that if I go into something, I go all in.

I think my music is a way of communicating very directly with people and with people's emotions. I try to make music that doesn't need layers of complexity or obfuscation to speak to people.

Because in both TV and film every story under the sun is being told, and so music shouldn't be restricted to have to follow, like, the John Williams template or something. I love John Williams, but that sound doesn't suit every story.

I'd never been to Rhode Island before, I loved it there. Watching the leaves change color in the fall was just gorgeous. I loved it.

Daft Punk's 'One More Time' remains one of my favorite 'getting ready to go out tonight' songs.

I am nearly the worst role model for a healthy person. To me, a healthy person is someone in balance. Sometimes you eat hamburgers, sometimes salad; sometimes you move, sometimes you don't. I eat more healthily than unhealthily, but I do sometimes eat unhealthy food.

I think you are always influenced by your surroundings and where you grow up. Your environment is always one of the things that shape you, and the music scene in Iceland was a very important factor in shaping me.

I am eating around 10,000 calories a day, which is a lot. I'm obviously a professional and I am the World's Strongest Man. This is something that a normal human being would never do. You would never eat that amount of food, because you would get tired, it's too many calories for you to intake.

For some reason people are very polite to me, but some ask me for autographs and photos.

I don't want to make light of the importance of my musical upbringing, as you cannot avoid being influenced by the area you grow up, but I will say that Reykjavik's geography is very different from, say, New York, Paris, or Copenhagen. There's big skies. The buildings are low. The landscape is spread out.

Brass bands are part of my upbringing. Brass band records were among the first records I listened to.

There are some stunning visual moments in 'Arrival' that are out of this world, but it's all on the earth, and it's about an academic, a woman that is dealing with a personal tragedy, but there's a circular view of time that makes things more complicated.

There were no tourists. Beer was illegal. There was only government television and no television on Thursdays or in the summer.

We are a small nation that nobody expects anything of.

I am the future of strength as I am King of the Stones!

I very much enjoy working with talented filmmakers who have a good sense for music, who have a strong feel for music and for what music can do in a film.

The winters are too long, and there's only one airline, so it's difficult to escape when you feel frustrated or claustrophobic. The audience for our films isn't very large, so it's difficult to support an industry. But, Iceland is beautiful. Sometimes it's hard to imagine living anywhere else.

I love greens, like spinach, avocado, broccoli.

I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

Tottenham have always played fantastic football. I remember watching them many years ago when I was younger, and they'd concede three but they'd score four.

We have to save ourselves from ourselves. We have to minimize the effect our own politicians can have on our society. We have to get some rules from the outside.

Joining the family business was always Plan B or Plan C.

I always say I enjoyed my time at Spurs and I improved as a player so I don't look back and think 'what if?'

It's very common in Iceland, this music-making and artistic expression by non-professionals. The brass band tradition is not as big, but there are choirs everywhere. So that's something that is familiar to me.

I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.

The fashion sector is very hot in New York, especially the fashion tech sector, and a lot of women have been the leaders in the industry.

I tend to get hired because the filmmakers like what I do, so there's usually not that much conflict about the direction.

As an actor, you have to be able to put yourself into the character since your job is literally making the character and the situation he is in believable.

I want the government to resign and an emergency government to be proclaimed, preferably made up of women. They can't do worse than men.

I think I have a sound or a certain feel in certain harmonies in the way I construct melodies.

It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.

I love 'Treasure.' It's one of my favourite albums.

A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity.

I think melancholy is kind of a misunderstood emotion. I don't think it's necessarily an unpleasant or bad emotion.

Everything is expensive in Iceland, especially food, and especially healthy food.

I started out writing music for theatre and contemporary dance, so there has always been a dramatic and narrative element in my music.

No one has ever threatened me in real life but on Facebook and Twitter it's all the time. You just get Internet warriors.

I view music mostly as communication, so when I record, I'm communicating to the listener in the future.

There's nothing better than proving people wrong.

That's one of the hardest parts of putting together an album - finding that concept, that unifying idea. Especially as I write mostly in instrumental music, the idea of having a central concept that unifies the music is very important to me.

Game of Thrones' was my first big role and to be a part of that is definitely life-changing. It doesn't matter who you are, it will change your life forever.

I consider myself to be a citizen of the world.

Having trained as a dancer growing up, I love any dance related events.

Public speaking is something I fear more than death itself.

I believe that things can be expressed very powerfully through simplicity.

My first album, 'Englaborn,' was based on music originally written for the theatre. My solo albums, like 'IBM 1401, a User's Manual' and 'Fordlandia,' have also had narratives attached to them.

With a huge storm, you need a lot of volume, but it can't become one loud noise. Dolby Atmos helped a lot because it gave us the separation of those elements.

I think as you have a more diverse group of people working in the industry, you automatically have more diverse storytelling. That's definitely to be celebrated for sure.

Having grown up in Iceland and Los Angeles, gone to school in Europe and America, and lived and worked in London and New York, my insatiable appetite for travel has informed many of my life decisions.

It is always a pleasure to see what NYC, London, Paris and Milan have to offer.