Top 994 Quotes & Sayings by Swedish Authors - Page 13

I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator.

I had one good racket, a Wilson Javelin. It was my favorite racket, and I made the mistake of putting it next to the heater. It just got so hot that it melted.

Every now and then, as a composer and producer, it's important to write music for yourself.

When you make a change, it hurts a bit.

There are days when I walk through the center of Stockholm when I get this sudden feeling of happiness - a sense of belonging and at the same time gratitude that I'm so privileged that I can live my life in my city.

I don't care about pride.

In my career the push has always been to take another step, to try something new.

I used to think I was stupid and slow.

I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

We can't just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

I was a groupie for a year and followed a band. I dated the drummer of the band.

I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of otherwise - then something happens inside my alien head. Other people have to decide whether or not I'm a good writer, but I do have the ability to write in different styles.

We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

'True Blood' was the most amazing adventure of my life; I met some of my best friends.

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.

I needed to get to know myself, discover where my limits were, not constantly push myself too much.

Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.

I miss Swedish meatballs, but you can get them pretty much anywhere.

I'd never really shot action scenes before, but I realized early on that is very much like shooting choreography and dance.

On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilized nations will recoil with horror and disband their troops.

Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.

I grew up with a strong Spanish influence. I tried to learn flamenco when I was younger. But it's like my teacher said: 'It takes a lifetime to learn flamenco.'

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.

I play a lot of golf and I'm in a little ice hockey league at home in Idaho.

A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique.

I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord.

Filming is repetition and many takes.

Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe.

One of the best ways of reducing both CO2 emissions and poverty in the South would be to strengthen the existing, decentralised demographic pattern by keeping villages and small towns alive. This would allow communities to maintain social cohesion and a closer contact with the land.

I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

Sweden's development is based on the equal rights of men and women. We know that investments in gender equality and sexual and reproductive rights pay off.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

The career I had at Celtic, the amount of goals and assists and the relationship with the fans and the club, I can't regret that. That's something I'm going to cherish as long as I live.

I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.

But watching characters that are awkward, overcoming their own obstacles and finding some of the hardest criminals in the world is interesting. We like watching losers win because we're all basically losers.

I was the perfect person to have a burnout because I was not listening to my body at all.

I struggle with myself every day - I am a lonesome person. I talk to my family - and I connect to some people deeply along the way - but I am a restless soul. Singing is the most immediate relief.

I don't think politics and sport should be mixed up.

I was born into an upper-middle class family in a village in the South of Sweden in April 1899. It was a large family with seven children, a large house, and a home which was very hospitable and open to friends and relatives.

It is obviously no secret that I earn a lot of money. But it is also no secret that I give most of it away. I don't live a luxurious life. I drive a small second-hand Fiat. I don't have to worry about money, which is itself a privilege. But I never had any anxiety that I would lose my identity.

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.

I just want to entertain; that is my main objective and what comes before everything else.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

When you go further and further into starvation you chose yourself, your mind becomes totally obsessed with not eating. It's like a religion where everything is sinful, and there is a heaven at the end where you are thin and don't need energy anymore.

People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

My teacher, Professor Smil Sommarin, was a fine pedagogue, a very generous person, and a great admirer of Kurt Wicksell.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.

Man was so created by the Lord as to be able while living in the body to speak with spirits and angels, as in fact was done in the most ancient times; for, being a spirit clothed with a body, he is one with them.

The telecom industry reaches into every corner of our economies, societies, and private lives, and it is one of the greatest drivers of economic growth and human equality the world has ever seen.

It's been so inspiring to have complete creative control and to just have fun creating and collaborating with people I admire greatly.

There are thousands of ways to take action. For example, plant trees, pick up litter, join an organisation or movement that makes a difference and especially try to influence adults and put pressure on people in power.

I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov.