Lennart Quotes

#1. Opposite Lennart and Maud lives Alf. He drives a taxi and always wears a leather jacket under a layer of irascibility.

Fredrik Backman

#2. Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

Lennart Meri

#3. That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.

Lennart Meri

#4. He talked about the future with such certainty, he might have been talking about the past.

Michael Dobbs

#5. Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

Lennart Meri

#6. Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

Lennart Meri

#7. With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.

Lennart Meri

#8. For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here.

Lennart Nilsson

#9. The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we have planned for more than two years, so I hope that we are going to start in the beginning of next year.

Lennart Nilsson

#10. We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive.

Lennart Nilsson

#11. Most naughtiness arises because the children are bored and lack a relationship with the teacher.

Rudolf Steiner

#12. Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#13. The gift of independence once granted cannot be lightly taken away again.

Robert Graves

#14. History is more interesting than politics.

Lennart Meri

#15. I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.

Lennart Meri

#16. It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique.

Lennart Nilsson

#17. After this? Heaven's going to be a major disappointment.

Emma Chase

#18. Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

Lennart Meri

#19. I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.

Lennart Nilsson

#20. There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter.

Lennart Nilsson

#21. I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image.

Claire Danes

#22. 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.

Lennart Nilsson

#23. And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers.

Lennart Nilsson

#24. We are organized by territories, whereas terrorists are organized into networks. States are very slow and terrorists are extremely fast. Intelligence sharing needs to expand beyond the regional and become global and not country-focused. We need to acquire speed and agility.

Ashraf Ghani

#25. I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

Lennart Nilsson

#26. I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.

Lennart Nilsson

#27. I eyed her and shrugged my shoulders, wondering how on earth she thought this meal was good, but her wafer-thin body gave her away; not once in her life had she eaten good-tasting food.

Gwyn Hyman Rubio

#28. You say you're a writer but you're depressed. Not an excuse; write from there. Write some depressing sh*t. Believe me. You will have plenty of readers who can relate. Remember writers write.

Stanley Christopher

#29. I panicked.
I farted.
I shrieked in humiliation.

Elle Casey

#30. If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Lennart Meri

#31. You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.

Lennart Nilsson

#32. If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.

Federica Montseny

#33. That sounds like bulshytt!

Neal Stephenson

#34. I've never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

Lennart Meri

#35. Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

Lennart Meri

#36. Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

Lennart Meri

#37. I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.

Lennart Meri

#38. In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

Lennart Meri

#39. That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target.

Lennart Nilsson

#40. 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.

Lennart Nilsson