Top 710 Quotes & Sayings by Norwegian Authors - Page 11

I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging.

I just really enjoy humming.

I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.

I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.

One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

When you are a country that is economically well-off - we are not leaving people to live on the street without help - then you have to be strict on immigration because you become the most attractive country to go to.

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.

When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you don't have a plot, really, what shall you rely on? Just language. And sometimes I am so afraid of writing the wrong thing, I just sit and wait for the right thing to come.

Hellhammer is the best drummer ever, and Euronymous is a musical genius.

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

I read a lot of Icelandic sagas when I was young. I've always been interested in the Viking culture.

I chose 'Time' by Hans Zimmer because it's very melodic, and the way it progresses throughout the track is very unique. I am personally a very big fan of piano melodies, and to me, 'Time' is just perfect.

When I scored on my debut, it was a brilliant feeling.

'Incontrovertible' is not a scientific word. Nothing is incontrovertible in science.

If each of us is to feel that he or she is valued, this calls for more than public funding.

I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.

One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying.

I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

I have gone to the forest.

I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.

I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I am traveling most of the time. I write in airports, trains, hotel rooms... I can write anywhere.

One of my favourite players is, of course, Marcus Rashford.

Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me.

I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace.

I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing.

Our society constantly promotes role models for masculinity, from superheroes to politicians, where the concept of being a 'man' is based in their ability to be tough, dominant - and even violent when required.

My own beliefs are that the road to a scientific discovery is seldom direct and that it does not necessarily require great expertise. In fact, I am convinced that often a newcomer to a field has a great advantage because he is ignorant and does not know all the complicated reasons why a particular experiment should not be attempted.

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak.

I want to see a capitalism that manages resources in a new, much more long-term manner.

We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.

It's always good to get a wake-up call and a reminder that you can't just go there and collect medals.

A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.

If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit by bit with the right equipment.

For a lot of fans from the early days, they probably had issues they were A-ha fans, because it probably wasn't 'cool.'

Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.

We work just as hard as any footballer, period. We go through the same experiences and heartaches. We make the same sacrifices. We leave our families behind to chase our dreams, too.

In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.

Sometimes, you can't seem to find any song on the radio that you like.

It's fun to have someone to talk to and get input from when you write. I usually get stuck when I'm just in my room writing by myself.

Change is good, but in the middle of it, it can be very sad.

Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.

I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.

I'm proud of my career as a player.

However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science.

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work.

I'm so happy people have enjoyed listening to my tracks.

The worst injury I ever had was a stress fracture from running.

There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.

The one way of getting better is by practising - both on and off the pitch.

It's said that Norwegians are born with skis for our legs. That's why we always win the Olympics.

I'm 16 now, I was 15 when it happened... and the encryption code wasn't in fact written by me, but written by the German member. There seems to be a bit of confusion about that part.

I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.

I've come more to terms with the fact that I sound like myself. No matter what I do, I sound like myself.