Icelanders Quotes

#1. Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves better.

Halldor Laxness

#2. ."The Swiss are uptight and happy. The Thais are laid-back and happy. Icelanders find joy in their binge drinking, Moldovans only misery. Maybe an Indian mind can digest these contradictions, but mine can't.

Eric Weiner

#3. I have always worked hard, and seeing so many Icelanders make tremendous efforts to cope with difficult tasks and decisions inspires me.

Johanna Siguroardottir

#4. It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

Halldor Laxness

#5. In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#6. Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

Elliott Abrams

#7. There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

Bjork

#8. We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes.

Kari Stefansson

#9. The thought of a spa treatment is lovely, but I'd be lying there having a massage and worrying about how much I had to do. I'm not very good at relaxing!

Louise Nurding

#10. She was holding desperately on to the words that had saved her life.

Markus Zusak

#11. If they aren't real enough to surprise me, then they aren't real enough to go on the page.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#12. Looking back on their past decisions about whether to purchase experiences, 83 percent of people sided with Mark Twain, reporting that their biggest single regret was one of inaction, of passing up the chance to buy an experience when the opportunity came along.

Elizabeth Dunn

#13. Uncle Monty tell

Lemony Snicket

#14. Why is this interesting? Why are we watching?

Kate Tempest

#15. I like to drive nice cars; since I live in New York, and I don't drive there, it's a novelty to be on the road and drive and listen to my music.

Hannibal Buress

#16. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean

Walt Whitman

#17. We are obsessed with sex, because those organisms who have this obsession leave behind many more copies of organisms with this obsession.

Hugh Howey

#18. I was hoping you'd come out and get me." I put my hands on my hips and cocked my head, pondering that revelation. "Well," I said, feeling truthful. "I'm always going to come and get you.

Karina Halle

#19. I heard the sighing of the reedsAt noontide and at evening,And some old dream I had forgottenI seemed to be remembering.

Arthur Symons

#20. Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

Jason Robert Brown

#21. The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

Eliot Spitzer

#22. Spotted Park Bench
I am a park bench.
Ordinary words cannot
express my thoughts on birds.

J. Patrick Lewis

#23. Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Franklin D. Roosevelt