Top 710 Quotes & Sayings by Norwegian Authors - Page 10

In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

I wanted to study painting and become a painter, but I had a huge flip-over in my life when I was about 18 or 19. I was part of a criminal environment; I got arrested and convicted, and I had to start thinking in a new way.

Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.

I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble.

I love Robyn. 'Dancing on My Own' is one of my favourite songs.

I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work.

I have always had the sea as my playground.

We ignore the similarities between the religious extremism and ethno-nationalism at our peril.

As someone who grew up between two cultures, I have been fascinated with the question of why men and women with similar backgrounds to mine were drawn towards radical messages of hate and violence.

The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.

We must fight for liberal ideas like openness, but also about having a media that we believe in and that can sort between real news and facts and not-so-factual things.

When you're quite sure about yourself and the values and where you want to go, it's easy to make difficult choices.

I come from a little town of 7,000 people, and everyone in my family played football.

I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book.

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

I was the youngest child. I got to be myself and ask stupid questions because I was the youngest. It is so important to listen to the questions children have and reward them for the wondrous questions they ask.

I've been in tankers for 50 years, and I like it. For me, it's still fun.

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

I'm from a small town called Alesund in Norway.

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.

I actually admire the Indian artiste 'Lost Stories.' He made a remix of my song 'Faded.' That is really good and cool because it actually represented Indian music. I just loved the song; it so unique.

I never think any song really feels like a 'hit' - a song either feels good or bad, in my opinion.

All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.

I am not religious in any way, but I have a pagan ideology and pagan values.

I would say that, basically, global warming is a non-problem.

It's down to the players, but when you're at Man United, there isn't a lot of greener grass on the other side. You are at the best place.

We can't just live as rentiers off the oil fund.

Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.

We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.

I'm a family-based person, even though we didn't exactly have a very happy family. I was never in any doubt that this was a centre of writing.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

I don't want to make just tropical house. I want to make everything, just like, whatever I feel like making.

I don't know if it's a sadistic side or whatever, but you take characters and put them in really awful situations and make them go through that. And it's very satisfying as a director to explore that, to tell those stories and to explore those themes, because it is so human.

Everyone thinks I'm looking for attacking football all the time. But the foundation is how you defend - keep a clean sheet, and you have a decent chance to win a game of football.

The hardest thing to have is success, because it seems to tell people what you are. But it doesn't.

A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.

It's been rumored for almost a year that Tormund was going out and stuff like that. But that's 'Game of Thrones.' The people you think are going to die don't die. Then people will die in a moment when you did not expect them to die.

We got sick of interviews and performances - for a long time, it came back to doing 'Take on Me.' It became a circus number instead of music.

I remember, when I was young, I had idols who inspired me to go for my dreams, and I just want to give the same back.

Sometimes you need to make difficult choices.

To me, it's mind-boggling to think that homosexuality was forbidden up until 1967.

I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language.

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism.

If we value human rights, they should be at the core of the project against violent extremism, and women a key part of our imagined future.

You can't feed a cat with cream and food in the kitchen and expect him to go catch mice.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

I feel like if it's a good song on a guitar, it's a good song no matter what.

Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition.

The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'

I want to enjoy not getting recognised while it lasts. But the mask is a symbol of unity. Anyone can be a Walker.

I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.

Jihadis want to watch the world burn, to bring everything crashing down, to destroy the establishment and rebuild it after their own pitiless vision. This misguided utopianism is what makes them such effective bogeymen.