Top 710 Quotes & Sayings by Norwegian Authors - Page 8

The burden of proof is now on the Palestinians... They must fight terrorism and dismantle its infrastructures in order to make possible progress on the roadmap.

I was born in a blizzard, a special out-of-season blizzard, the worst blizzard Oslo ever suffered. Family, home, circumstances, the country I lived in and the weather I was born in all conspired to make a skater of me.

I like people. I like to speak to people, engage with people.

There are two places where I can completely relax: in nature and by the piano.

Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.

There were days when you're tired or overtrained but that's when you have to be pushed if you want to go far. That's how I drove away from my competitors.

I've got a great team around me with my family, manager and label, and we've all worked hard together to make things happen.

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

I am a private person and that has always been my personality.

Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

I'm very involved in the production of my songs. I know what I like and what I don't like.

Young people can create beautiful things.

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

I always felt Harrison Ford looked like he's about to shoot himself when he's carrying his own gun. He always looked afraid; he's not just this tough guy, you know?

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

I don't particularly enjoy standing alone and recording my own voice or my own stuff. It's sometimes fun to do for demos and stuff, but I really enjoy the social act of recording records, because writing it is so lonely. And it has to be.

When you're outside, and everything is highland, it's like nature has its own sound, and that's one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

I've been so fortunate to have the opportunity to work with some incredibly talented vocalists, guitarists and producers, and I can't wait to share more originals in the future.

You can love someone and not like them.

I'm just trying to stretch the public space wider and make it more open so that a wider variety of people and faces and stories and perspectives and also expertise can come through. So everything that I do rests on that, trying to support on other voices.

This paradigm of the war on terror, connecting all kinds of armed resistance around the globe in one huge ideological framework, as a new ideology at a stage in history when most of the major ideologies are gone, does not reflect the facts on the ground.

Some critics said, 'Hey, why are you writing historical novels?' I say they're not historical, they're contemporary, because people walking around who lived through this, even a little bit, they carry it inside. The contemporary isn't just what you can see now.

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.

I always come back to the piano. It's like home.

The universe is a great mystery.

I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.

If each woman stands up and uses her voice, imagine how many voices would be together and how strong a mass that would be.

I'm such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

I never liked the term 'fans.'

This is our job to play tennis, and be here to focus. And when you're an athlete, we say it's normal that your job is 24/7.

My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.

You gain respect in your opponents' minds when you win a lot of matches.

Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention.

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I want to be happy with myself.

My favorite thing to do is to get something good out of something bad.

People will buy a good electrical car instead of buying a fossil-fuel one, and you get a much better standard of car.

We've never been very good at servicing fans. I'm here to concentrate on music, not to be a pen pal to people who write to me.

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.

I think the growing disregard for the environment, culture, and heritage is a natural consequence of capitalism.

God's supreme word to us is life; our highest worship of Him is love for the living.

My beard is owned by HBO.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

To me, personally, an ideal society would be a world where only I and those I care for exist.

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don't really know what the final result will be before you have it.

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

In general, it should be in our interest to get organizations out of military activity and into politics.

I hope I can be a filmmaker where every movie will be different, and not make one type of movie. I'm always looking for a character that interests me.

Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic.

You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we're also starting to be really brave.

Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

To live like we are supposed to, we need to listen to our blood, so to speak. Our paganism is in our blood, and to be able to create a positive and meaningful civilization in the future, on the ruins of the 'Sodom and Gomorrah' we live in today, we need to live in accordance with our blood.

I had no interest in music. But now, music means everything to me. I have no words to explain how beautiful music is. It is where you can create everything, like beautiful songs to sad songs to almost anything.

Human beings change. Sometimes we change because of our circumstances and experiences.

I didn't grow up listening to him - my parents listened more to Neil Young and Joni Mitchell - but I lived in a flatshare for two years, and my flatmate loved Leonard Cohen. He would always play him when he got home from the studio or something.