Top 710 Quotes & Sayings by Norwegian Authors - Page 2

Keep the masses fed and entertain them to keep them in line.

We are a small country. That means there will be lots of similarities in policies. The priorities are about the same issues - you have to create more jobs; you have to invest in people so they are qualified for the jobs the new economy will bring.

Our film society back home is so different from here. Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language. It's just figuring things out and understanding the codes and how the system of Hollywood compares to that of Norway. We don't even have agents. There's no studio system, no managers.

As a filmmaker, I don't want to limit myself to one kind of movie.

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.

Norway has a great history of women's football, but it's harder now. We've stopped talking about development, and other countries have overtaken us.

I just like playing songs with happy vibes and good feelings.

Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.

I'm such a romantic at heart.

You can't go to college and develop into an Olympics champion. It takes too much time, too much training.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture. We had everything from the BBC on our TV, so British drama seems very close to home.

I'm very confident in my own ability as a manager.

My goal is one individual gold. I know how hard it is: you have to have a good day; there can also be some problems with the weather.

The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.

I like anything that is melodic, and I'm a very big fan of movie soundtracks, so my favorite artists/producers would be Steve Jablonsky, Hans Zimmer, K-391, Ahrix, KSHMR, and many, many more.

Globalization is very destructive to our species.

By voting, we add our voice to the chorus that forms opinions and the basis for actions.

As a girl, I abandoned a promising singing career due to violent harassment by Islamists.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.

Teamwork is the best kind of work, really.

For me, it's important to relax and concentrate on what I want to do.

The music industry has become so unpredictable. And I think people know that if someone has a Number One song, it doesn't necessarily mean that you'll have several ones after.

Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can.

But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.

Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

The devil is compromise.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that outermost verge, beside herself for anxiety and sleeplessness, - then love will teach you that life comes first.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.

I'm from Norway, and when kids were reading comics, I was reading Icelandic and Norwegian sagas about the Vikings. The glorification of violence, their mentality, and their way of living - that was part of my own education growing up.

In Norway, everyone knows everyone, and everyone is very supportive of each other. If there is anyone new, or a new song is coming out, everyone will probably know about it.

I'm a sci-fi fan, but a lot of the sci-fi you're getting is the same. It's very stereotypical.

It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.

Music inspires contemplation, dreams, and the imagination.

On the floor by my bed, there are heaps of books I want to read, books I have to read, and books I believe I need to read.

Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

Philosophically I am, or at least have been, a follower of Sartre. I am very interested in the choices we make, or don't make, in life-defining matters. That moment of 'angst' and its consequences can be such a cruel thing.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance.

People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.

Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology.

The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I can't do it in any other way. But then they are dependent on the sentences, my intuition, and, as I have experienced many times, the subconscious.

My brother was an avid Stoke City fan and a good footballer. We shared a room, growing up, and the walls were covered with 1970s Stoke players, like Peter Shilton, Gordon Banks, and Jimmy Greenhoff.

Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men.

I really just like to sit alone at the piano. I need my me time.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

I listen to lots of artists. But I remember discovering John Mayer, whose music made me want to write my own. And so I did.

If you want honesty and love, you have to be honest and loving and loveable.

Football is the biggest sport in Norway for girls and has been for years, but at the same time, girls don't have the same opportunities as the boys.

What is good for society is also good for business.

I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

Avicii's melodies were so simple and cool, and they were actually similar to the melodies I played on piano. I thought if I could teach myself how to produce and get those melodies out of my head and into the computer, maybe I could make some cool music, too.

For a small country like Norway, it's important for our ability to trade and to invest across borders that we have fair trade and that we have multilateral trade systems, also.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.

As long as we are one of the most expensive countries to produce in, we should focus on cutting costs that directly and indirectly weigh on business.