Top 710 Quotes & Sayings by Norwegian Authors - Page 9

Extremism is a complicated issue, but without addressing how it appeals to men and boys, we may be missing an important motivation and a way to address the problems in our towns and cities.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

What makes the world such a wonderful place is the diversity. I have always strived to fill my home, my office and my hotels with the most diverse crowds possible.

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

I get a lot of demos sent my way, and I listen to them, and sometimes they just have something very special.

Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!

I always used to play with the boys and loved it. You never asked yourself the question if there should be a difference between a boy or a girl.

'My Struggle' came from a place of questioning and feelings of inauthenticity and frustration, and almost all of that is gone.

I grew up in a tiny village on top of a mountain and have been skiing and singing all my life!

I don't like closed systems.

It is so important to allow children to bloom and to be driven by their curiosity.

Afghanistan has safe zones... so it's possible to send grown-ups back to that country. We can't empty Afghanistan.

Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

Climate changes are caused by solar radiation and other natural phenomena, so I don't worry one bit about that. Nothing we do can change anything in the climate.

The thermodynamic properties of electrolyte solutions can be determined from the measurements of the voltage between electrodes reversible to both ions.

I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all the books I had read, a kind of bubble, in which I lived.

I came into the world at the right time.

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

Most couples manage to cooperate on child raising - for us, our brain project is our third child, so nothing different, really.

Making people fear the expression of their own power is a very effective way of disempowering them. It is not just those who feel the frustration of being silenced: it also encompasses every person who has no idea of their own power to realise their visions because they have not seen this in action in their communities.

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.

I want to come back in 2017 if things work well.

Sometimes you make a record that is what you want to hear. I've made a couple of those, idealized creations of what I wanted to hear. Then there are records that are what you feel.

We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone.

Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.

I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it.

Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.

Having a writer in the family is a curse - for the family. I do feel more or less guilty when I'm writing.

I hate plots.

I wouldn't be where I am without my fans, and I am very thankful for them.

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

There are just two things you can do to win a Nobel prize - have a good idea and pursue it effectively.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

All interesting heroes have an Achilles' heel.

My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.

The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

We wanted the freedom to be playful, to experiment and do what we felt like doing, but we were heavily affected by the success that the first record gave us.

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

That's the biggest struggle in Norway. Most of the money doesn't go to tennis.

If Hamas wants to be part of the real world, it has to end up accepting Israel's right to exist.

Global warming has become a new religion. We frequently hear about the number of scientists who support it. But the number is not important: only whether they are correct is important. We don't really know what the actual effect on the global temperature is. There are better ways to spend the money.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

I'm very picky; I'm never happy with anything. It's so hard to give the record away and accept that you're done.

We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

I actually do sing sometimes.

I'm not an entertainer; I'm an engager. I never sell myself, in a sense.

We knew that they would probably go after someone.

In terms of fitness and battling through cancer, exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.

Music, performance, and a woman is very rarely accepted within Muslim communities.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality.

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.