Top 994 Quotes & Sayings by Swedish Authors - Page 14

And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb.

Pride is not just any summer festival. It is a celebration - but it is also a manifestation of human rights. It is serious - and joyful. It is a reminder of the progress that has been made - but also of everything that still remains to be done.

We all have a choice. We can create transformational action that will safeguard the living conditions for future generations. Or we can continue with our business as usual and fail.

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

I tried in '71 to relax. I thought I gave my farewell tour.

There are 195 crime books published in Sweden every year. You could cut that to 100 and keep the good ones.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

There's often a discussion about, 'Well, how do we know what happiness is? Is it real?' I've always argued that all of us know that there's a huge difference between how we feel when we feel happy and when we don't feel happy.

What I say in the dressing room always stays there.

A lot of American guys wear really wide legged jeans and square shoes. Then they come to Sweden and think my friends are gay because they're wearing 'really tight jeans'. It's called 'fitted!'

I believe everything you experience in life and football can make you better.

Even in my hometown of Linkoping where I grew up... the church we had was very lavish - very boasty. So it ticked most of the boxes of big, imposing Christianity. And I love being there if I'm in town... because it's just this haunting place.

I think we should focus more, rather than less, on mobilising the middle classes. They often have a bit of time and money to contribute to change.

As a child I could lie in bed and do absolutely nothing for hours but once I decided to do something, big or small, I could not stop until it had been completed.

When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened.

I honestly kind of hate shopping. My favorite places to shop are rich old lady consignment stores.

When I was sixteen years old, I was sentenced to two years in prison; the Swedish government changed it, so I could go to a boarding school as part of a social programme. I was in this boarding school with some of the richest kids in Sweden.

There are still many places I haven't seen that I'd like to travel to. I've never seen the Pyramids, and I'd love to explore the culture in North India. I think walking in the Andes would also be awesome.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

I met Magnus Lidehall about two years ago, and the beat that I originally wrote 'Younger' on was one of the first ones that he sent me. I must have been around 21 at that time, feeling a bit lazy and disappointed with myself and my life.

I listened to all the Misfits albums growing up and Red Hot Chili Peppers, too.

I like a good mattress, first of all. I have a Hestia bed, and it's the best mattress in the world. I like it pretty cold because I can't sleep when it's really hot.

Sweden is a great country. What is not so great is that we have a society that, in a way, says it's great if you don't look right, if you don't look left, if you just look straight forward.

My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.

As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

I started off copying disks on my computer when I was eight or nine.

I build a robot version of Jenna Marbles' dog, Kermit. It turned out a little bit worse than I had anticipated.

There is so many good people in Africa. And a huge talent among the football players.

Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe.

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.

You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.

Sometimes I thought that maybe it would have been better to stay in Italy, to stay at Lazio.

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

People don't want to read subtitles.

I was in Benfica for five years, so for me to leave was a tough decision because I was happy there and I developed lots as a player.

If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all the Ikea employees.

When you're writing about difficult things and darker issues, it's nice to offer some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. Some sense of hope. Sometimes, the best way to do that is by offering it in the music, so that you can dance your way out of the darkness.

David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent.

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

I'm not a secretive guy. I'm talkative.

I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.

In my family, we don't die till we're 100 years old.

I need a distance to my characters when I write.

If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.

I really do believe in clearing samples, and I believe that people should be compensated for them, but the laws are just so stupid.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.

I grew up with great relationships with my stepparents.

I lived five years in Portugal and then spent winters in Nepal or India.

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

I play a lot of sports. I played football for 12 years, I like tennis, I surf, I snowboard, and I ski. I always like to do an activity.

My private life, I prefer to have that private.

I have confidence in my beliefs, my decisions, and myself.

My first teacher... was extremely strict, mean, and deeply religious.

I see the world in black and white, and I don't like compromising.

My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy.

Club music taught me so much about myself: having patience or appreciating a different type of way of taking in life. That, to me, is like what 'Off the Wall' is. Or 'I Feel Love' or 'Rock Your Baby' with George McCrae.

My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.