Kristian Birkeland Quotes

#1. Living your life is a long and doggy business ... And stories and books help. Some help you with the living itself. Some help you just take a break. The best do both at the same time.

Anne Fine

#2. The only people that should be in your life are ones that make you smile.

Christine Minasian

#3. Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I'm sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.

Tori Amos

#4. Nobody messes with a girl in combat boots, particularly when she's also a vegetarian.

Meg Cabot

#5. You get too much at last of everything: of sunsets, of cabbages, of love.

Harold Bloom

#6. For me, the most absorbing films are those that address big questions and real ideas but embody them in small examples that we can appreciate and comprehend.

Lisa Randall

#7. It seems to be a natural consequence of our points of view to assume that the whole of space is filled with electrons and flying electric ions of all kinds.

Kristian Birkeland

#8. I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

Jack Kerouac

#9. As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

Gregg Allman

#10. Pity makes suffering contagious.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Once upon a time, I had a grasp of concepts like "motivation" and "investment" and "progress." I am not even sure now that those are words.

Ryan Parmenter

#12. If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.

Preston Sturges

#13. A very few lonely pioneers make their way to high places never before visited ... they create the living conditions of mankind and the majority are living on their work.

Kristian Birkeland