Top 100 Andersen Quotes
#1. I saved you," Andersen said at last, slowly but firmly, like Pat was an idiot child who had to be reminded of the basic rules of the universe. To wit: Gravity exists. Time purports to flow in a linear fashion, but it's only trying to fool us. I saved you.
Alex Gabriel
#2. Hans and Christian just stare at me, faces grim. All I can think of is how awesome it would be if my name were Andersen.
Cyn Balog
#3. Unlike most experts in her field, Erika Andersen has an approach to being strategic that's sensible and accessible. With her, you feel capable of creating the business, career and life you want. She's to strategy what Suze Orman is to personal finance!
Nancy Tellem
#4. In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales.
Francis Ford Coppola
#5. The collapse of Enron and the subsequent collapse of Arthur Andersen were tremendous tragedies. But as I stated at the time of my indictment on July 8, 2004, failure does not equate to a crime.
Kenneth Lay
#6. Now one day, maybe I can forgive John Andersen for what he done to these trees, but I ain't gonna forget it. I figure forgiving is not letting something nag at you - rotting you out.
Mildred D. Taylor
#7. Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen
Robyn Carr
#8. While not my personal favorite of the Disney princess films, 'The Little Mermaid' wins hands-down in my book for best Disney adaptation. Little girls waited for more than 150 years for Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid' to have a happy ending. Walt Disney finally gave it to her.
Alethea Kontis
#9. I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#10. If you will let it, this Blue Willow platter can represent my promise to fill your life with my trust and love and a houseful of children. - Peter Andersen
Maggie Brendan
#11. fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet
L. Frank Baum
#12. There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.
Victor Borge
#13. We all get as miserable as Erika M. Andersen sometimes, but we rarely approach her musical-ideas-per-miserable-minute ratio.
Rob Sheffield
#14. 1978 when she decided to contact Clinton. That's when events took a turn for the worse. As Christopher Andersen writes in American Evita: Juanita checked into Little Rock's Camelot
Victor Thorn
#15. I was brought up, as a lot of kids are, on 'Aesop's Fables,' 'Brothers Grimm,' 'La Fontaine,' all those sorts of things. Hans Christian Andersen is a hero of mine.
Michael Morpurgo
#16. Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale." - Hans Christian Andersen
Laura Kenyon
#17. Hans Christian Andersen said 'Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.' Maybe he was right, maybe not. Either way, just remember: enchanting as they may be, in fairytales the forests are always dark.
Greg F. Gifune
#18. I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.
Mary Russell Mitford
#19. I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#20. I liked Hans Christian Andersen because the tales were so dark and tragic.
Aimee Bender
#21. An oxymoronic combination of the tough and tender, [Of Mice and Men] will appeal to sentimental cynics, cynical sentimentalists ... Readers less easily thrown off their trolley will still prefer Hans Andersen.
[Time 1937]
Time-Life Books
#22. Everyone knew the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale about the Sandman and how he brought sweet dreams to sleepers. An early, now-defunct Reve company had even used him as their mascot. But that's all the Sandman had been - a mascot. A little grinning elf holding an hourglass.
Erin Kellison
#23. Have you ever read Hans Christian Andersen's story of The Little Mermaid, Miranda? Have you ever wanted
something so badly that you were willing to suffer the sensation of a thousand blades cutting into your feet?
Vanessa Garden
#24. A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.
Roger Moore
#25. The supernatural is ubiquitous in children's entertainment, from Grimm and Hans Andersen to Disney and 'Harry Potter.'
Richard Dawkins
#26. Responsible: (1) Liable to be held to account for discharging one's duty; (2) Able to make moral or rational decisions on one's own and therefore answerable for one's behavior; (3) Able to be trusted or depended upon; reliable.
Erika Andersen
#29. Shalvis makes me laugh, makes me cry, makes me sigh with pure pleasure.
Susan Andersen
#30. At his next visit he fancied he must have got into a narrow needlecase, full of sharp needles: "Oh," thought he, "this must be the heart of an old maid;" but such was not the fact;
Hans Christian Andersen
#31. "Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?"
"No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of."
"Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.
Hans Christian Andersen
#32. Gravitation cant be held responsible for people falling in love.
Karsten Andersen
#33. A well-bred duckling spreads his feet wide apart, just like his father and mother, in this way. Now bend your neck, and say 'quack.'" The
Hans Christian Andersen
#34. That secret entrance deep between her thighs clenched like the mouth of a drawstring purse.
Susan Andersen
#35. I'm a half-breed. You know, I'm Puerto Rican and Norwegian from descent, and I grew up, born and raised in New York City, and I stood out amongst my friends in my community. I was very blond-haired, white, and 'Lemonhead' was the name that they gave me.
Lemon Andersen
#36. No one would allow that he could not see these much-admired clothes; because, in doing so, he would have declared himself either a simpleton or unfit of his office.
Hans Christian Andersen
#38. he had made a mirror with the power of causing all that was good and beautiful when it was reflected therein, to look poor and mean; but that which was good-for-nothing and looked ugly was shown magnified and increased in ugliness. In
Hans Christian Andersen
#39. Superbe! Charmant! exclaimed the ladies; for they all used to chatter French, each one worse than her neighbor.
Hans Christian Andersen
#40. Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
Hans Christian Andersen
#42. With faith come trials of faith, bringing increased faith.
Neil L. Andersen
#43. One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.
Hans Christian Andersen
#46. To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.
Hans Christian Andersen
#47. His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.
Hans Christian Andersen
#48. Once a decade, once every eight years, Donald Trump finds some pretext to say I suck and that I'm bad.
Kurt Andersen
#49. As surely as the Lord has inspired more missionaries to serve, He is also awakening the minds and opening the hearts of more good and honest people to receive His missionaries.
Neil L. Andersen
#50. When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are elevated in response to an image of a more promising future. Every person who aspires must first sell themselves hope, the promise of a better life.
Uell Stanley Andersen
#51. life has several options
from here
a new place
new idea
new love
or an endless nightmare
Colin Andersen
#53. Wouldn't you like to be my lord Duke of Exeter? Come on, Dom. Say something."
"You have lost your mind."
"Say something less insulting.
Laura Andersen
#54. I don't know what the point of that would be. We can't just declare war on people because we don't understand what they do." "That, my friend, is pinko commie bullshit. Exactly the type of thing I would expect to come out of your mouth.
Andersen Prunty
#56. In teaching, I like being able to present clips from movies on VHS or DVD and then talk about them. That's what this movie is.
Thom Andersen
#59. Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.
Hans Christian Andersen
#62. As we act in faith, we often find that the blessings from the Lord are different than we expected but much better than we imagined.
Neil L. Andersen
#63. Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.
Kurt Andersen
#64. And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a roof gutter and got wet through; yes, one does not know her again when one meets her in the dust box.
Hans Christian Andersen
#68. They reached the Tabernacle. It looked like it had been converted from a one room schoolhouse. "It used to be a one room schoolhouse," Mindy said. The
Andersen Prunty
#69. The invitation to repent is rarely a voice of chastisement but rather a loving appeal to turn around and to "re-turn" toward God.
Neil L. Andersen
#71. Sometimes it just doesn't seem to matter that I know what I should be doing. I still do what I am gonna do.
Susan Andersen
#72. What is it about men, anyway? You can't live with 'em and the law frowns on neutering them. It's not exactly a win-win situation.
Susan Andersen
#73. Challenges will come to you, but as you trust in God, they will strengthen your faith.
Neil L. Andersen
#74. Child, looking through bubbles into the future; now those bright bubbles were all behind him. Once more he had
Hans Christian Andersen
#77. I want to be undone by you. I want to be the one to come to pieces in your arms, to forget there is anything in this world but the two of us.
Laura Andersen
#79. Given the proper suggestion, the Subconscious Mind will manifest success from failure, health from disease, prosperity from poverty, friendship and love from loneliness and isolation. For nothing is impossible to the Subconscious Mind and it operates entirely by suggestion.
Uell Stanley Andersen
#80. You have to admire the human spirit - we'll continue building things just so someone else can watch them fall.
Andersen Prunty
#81. If a child is not listening, don't despair. Time and truth are on your side. At the right moment, your words will return as if from heaven itself. Your testimony will never leave your children.
Neil L. Andersen
#82. push it myself." On the next day the weather was delightful, and the sun shone brightly on the green burdock
Hans Christian Andersen
#83. Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.
Hans Christian Andersen
#84. Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.
Uell Stanley Andersen
#85. Each time I think that the song is ended ... something higher and better begins for me.
Hans Christian Andersen
#86. The wisdom of the world, while in many cases very valuable, is most valuable when it humbly bows to the wisdom of God.
Neil L. Andersen
#87. You are His disciple; you are His friend. By His grace He will do for you what you cannot do for yourself.
Neil L. Andersen
#88. Repentance is a blessing to all of us. We each need to feel the Savior's arms of mercy through the forgiveness of our sins.
Neil L. Andersen
#89. You have become my thinking's single thought, My heart's first love: it had no love before. I love you as no love on earth is wrought, I love you now and love you evermore.
Hans Christian Andersen
#90. Nothing is impossible to the mind. All it's guidance and power are available to you. When you fully realize that thought causes all, you will know there are never any limits that you yourself do not impose.
Uell Stanley Andersen
#92. Every author has some peculiarity in his descriptions or in his style of writing. Those who do not like him, magnify it, shrug up their shoulders, and exclaim there he is again!
Hans Christian Andersen
#94. He stared at her. "How do chicks do that?" "We have uteruses- they give us magic color sense.
Susan Andersen
#95. [My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?
Lemon Andersen
#96. We see God's miracles in His wondrous work and in our own personal lives.
Neil L. Andersen
#97. For me, the main point is that reality is rich. We can respond to it more immediately and directly, in ways where there's less displacement between representation and reality.
Thom Andersen
#99. When Frey asked students to draw the creation, the other kids drew animals and Adam and Eve. Caroline covered her paper in black crayon, then held it up to reveal she had punched out holes for the stars and the moon. 'And then there was light', she said ...
Christopher Andersen
#100. How do popular attitudes get formed? Do the movies just reflect it or inform it? Where does this particular idea come from? I don't know if I can say anything too illuminating.
Thom Andersen
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