Top 33 Maj Quotes
#1. To lose everything is not the worst can happen."
"It's starting again, from nothing, with nothing," Otah said.
"Is exactly this," Maj agreed, then a moment later. "Starting again, and doing better.
Daniel Abraham
#3. The Bible says there is a time for peace and a time for war. Now is the time for war. I cannot wait to say it is now a time for peace." - MAJ James Brisson, Chaplain, 1-160th SOAR, 19 October 2001, Afghanistan
Oliver North
#4. My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.
Larry Hagman
#5. Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.
Jo Nesbo
#6. People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
Maj Sjowall
#7. In a relationship, the sum of your parts should equal more than just you by yourself. He needs to bring something new and different to the table to up the ante.
Chelsea Handler
#8. There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
Maj Sjowall
#9. There are lots of good cops around. Dumb guys who are good cops. Inflexible, limited, tough, self-satisfied types who are all good cops. It would be better if there were a few more good guys who were cops." His
Maj Sjowall
#10. The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
Voltaire
#11. No human being, particularly a young, attractive woman, is so alone that there is no one to miss her when she disappears.
Maj Sjowall
#12. Yes, think what a lot of nonsense one can figure out with plenty of time. Brooding is the mother of ineffectiveness.
Maj Sjowall
#13. Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
Maj Sjowall
#14. But a dream is nothing more than reality shorn of cynicism.
Joseph Girzone
#15. A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible 'lifestyles' turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
George Will
#16. following the man's uneventful and highly regimented
Maj Sjowall
#17. Nadia shook her head, marveling at the capacity people had for ignoring what they had in common, and fighting bitterly over whatever small differences existed between them. She
Kim Stanley Robinson
#18. When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
Maj Sjowall
#19. After five years of marriage their idea of a really pleasant evening was to be at home, alone, help each other make a good dinner and then sit for a long time and eat and drink and talk.
Maj Sjowall
#20. Throughout the film the reporter kept up a ceaseless commentary in that eager, exalted tone that only American news reporters seem to achieve. It was as if he had - with enormous pleasure - just witnessed the end of the world.
Maj Sjowall
#22. The highway authorities clearly did not think it worth their while wasting road salt on this useless bit of roadway.
Maj Sjowall
#23. We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
Maj Sjowall
#24. Eleanor hadn't written him a letter, it was a postcard.
Just three words long. pg. 325
Rainbow Rowell
#25. Working at night helps people focus in on this crazy little bubble you've created, wherever you are filming. It doesn't matter where the location is, the world doesn't exist outside this bubble. And everyone is trapped inside.
Ray Stevenson
#26. Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen.
Dwight Henry
#29. January 7 arrived and looked like January 7. The streets were full of gray, frozen people without money.
Maj Sjowall
#30. The corpulent, impotent Petrus casts pubescent girls in skin flicks so low-budget sex, from film to film, takes place "on the same old couch, which occasionally changed covers.
Maj Sjowall
#31. Of course I acted in school plays but mostly as angels or mushrooms.
Maj Sjowall
#32. that you have three of the most important virtues a policeman can have," he thought. "You are stubborn and logical, and completely calm.
Maj Sjowall
#33. I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.
Maj Sjowall
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
