Top 100 Norwegian Quotes
#1. If you hurt her any more than you already have, the wound could be too deep to fix.
Haruki Murakami
#3. The Sushi Warehouse in Roissy 2E offered an exceptional range of Norwegian mineral waters.
Michel Houellebecq
#4. Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.
Liv Ullmann
#5. A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind.
Gustav Stresemann
#6. My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.
David Johansen
#7. 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
#8. I think what I came through is great, but my son can take it to another level, not having to fight racism. His mother's a Norwegian and I'm mixed up four or five times, so he can face the world.
James Brown
#9. The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation,
Jens Stoltenberg
#10. My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.
Jonas Gahr Store
#11. I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.
Lester B. Pearson
#12. She and I had needed each other more than either of us knew.
Haruki Murakami
#13. As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.
Haruki Murakami
#14. I have a number of places on my wish list, including Antarctica, the Norwegian fjords, and the Amazon. I have a passion for wilderness, and Siberia is on my list - however, that may be a bridge too far.
Robert Powell
#15. I think there was a brief period where Norwegian bands were evolving and that was an interesting time where it seemed like a band like Darkthrone was stuck in the midst of a lot of change and seemed a bit redundant.
Mat McNerney
#16. In Norway, we have a community of people who prefer to use a version of Norwegian that looks very much like lutefisk: Dug up remains from the garbage heap of history and dressed up to look like a tradition.
Erik Naggum
#17. One thing became crystal clear to me when I couldn't see you anymore. I realized that the only way I had been able to survive until then was having you in my life. When I lost you, the pain and loneliness really got to me.
Haruki Murakami
#18. Not everybody is looking for a boyfriend with a sports car.
Haruki Murakami
#19. It was as hard to be a Norwegian in 1881 as it was to be an American in 1770. Perhaps even harder, as Norway was far from a young nation.
Chris Nicolaisen
#20. I got an email from the Crown Prince of Norway asking me to talk at a summit for young Norwegian entrepreneurs. I ran to my wife and was like, 'Hey! I got an email from the Prince of Norway!'
Nick Woodman
#21. I miss her every now and then, but finally, she didn't move me. I don't know, sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it.
Haruki Murakami
#22. If you're warm enough when you set out, you're wearing too many clothes.
Michelle Paver
#23. The United States of America is more than just an ally,' Brandhaug began with an imperceptible smile. He said it with the same intonation that you use to explain to a non-Norwegian that Norway has a king and that the capital is Oslo.
Jo Nesbo
#25. You want to know why you felt that way about me even though you didn't love me.
Haruki Murakami
#26. I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.
Siri Hustvedt
#27. guided towards the writings of a 1930s Danish-Norwegian author, Aksel Sandemose, for a better understanding of how best to 'integrate' into the workplace in Denmark.
Helen Russell
#28. How's Norbert doin'?"
Norbert?" Charlie laughed. "The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now."
Wha - Norbert's a girl?
J.K. Rowling
#29. And then, with a European director and Norwegian actors speaking in Norwegian, it was going to be very interesting. So, whatever initial trepidation or fear I may have had was alleviated by those factors. I just said, "This is something to get on board with."
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
#30. All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.
Roald Dahl
#31. Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
Roald Dahl
#32. Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. So the biggest Norwegian newspaper looked upon that as an arrest.
Jon Johansen
#33. You know, your family's exactly like I imagined them. Exactly like you." "What's that supposed to mean?" "You're like the blackbirds. The blondbirds." "Very funny." "They're very nice. You always talk like they're Norwegian hillbillies or something.
Jean Thompson
#34. It was that kind of kiss. But as with all kisses, it was not without a certain element of danger
Haruki Murakami
#35. Norwegian theologian O. Hallesby is "to loosen to some degree the ties which bind us to the world or material surroundings as a whole in order that we may concentrate all our spiritual powers upon the unseen and eternal things."The
William Thrasher
#36. ONE WORD
One word
- one stone
in a cold river.
One more stone
I'll need many stones
if I'm going to get over.
Olav H. Hauge
#37. Where I went in my travels, it's impossible for me to recall. I remember the sights and sounds and smells clearly enough, but the names of the towns are gone, as well as any sense of the order in which I traveled from place to place.
Haruki Murakami
#38. My Norwegian family says, 'You're the most grounded American we've ever met.'
Celeste Holm
#39. There is absolutely nothing to be gained from sleeping with one strange woman after another. It just tires you out and makes you disgusted with yourself.
Haruki Murakami
#40. The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norwegian Wood" curses you with loneliness. The "Two spirits dancing so strange" in "#9dream" bless you with harmony. But people prefer loneliness to harmony.
David Mitchell
#42. Everybody feels like that to some extent," I said. "They're trying to express themselves and it bothers them when they can't get it right.
Haruki Murakami
#43. Maybe so, but I'm not just looking up at the sky and waiting for the fruit to drop. In my own way, I'm working hard. I'm working ten times harder than you are.
Haruki Murakami
#45. I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, and they probably couldn't understand me, either.
Haruki Murakami
#46. I think of you now mare than ever. It's raining today.
Haruki Murakami
#47. Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.
Haruki Murakami
#48. I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.
Brie Larson
#49. Tommy Wirkola is Norwegian but has a Finnish surname - he comes from the one of the northernmost countries in the whole of Europe. It was easy working with him. The people in the north are all fairly similar.
Pihla Viitala
#50. We had taken him for a Norwegian ship's captain and had come to his table to hear some more about seafaring, not about philosophy, from which, indeed, we had fled north from Central Europe.
Thomas Bernhard
#51. Isn't it perfectly possible that Nils and his wife are too depressed to have kids? The prospect of having kids depresses the shit out of me, and I'm neither suicidal nor Norwegian!
John Irving
#52. I'm Norwegian and our ghosts don't care about nookie, just raiding, blood feuds, and herring recipes.
Ani Gonzalez
#53. Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another pat of me into that world.
Haruki Murakami
#54. I clarified that I myself was Colombian.
"What is 'being Colombian'?"
"I'm not sure," I replied. "It's an act of faith."
"Like being Norwegian," she said, nodding.
I can recall nothing further of what was said that night.
Jorge Luis Borges
#55. Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.
Stellan Skarsgard
#56. Thinking of all I had lost in the course of my life: times gone for ever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again.
Haruki Murakami
#57. They're old enough to know how the world really works, so why are they so stupid? It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you can clean up the shit.
Haruki Murakami
#58. The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.
Bill Bryson
#59. My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.
Grete Waitz
#60. Reiko moved on to the Beatles, playing "Norwegian Wood," "Yesterday," "Michelle," and "Something." She sang and played "Here Comes the Sun," then played "The Fool on the Hill." I laid seven matches in a row.
Haruki Murakami
#61. in 2001, one Norwegian enthusiast even implemented Internet Protocol with a set of carrier pigeons. (Observers reported a disappointing 56 percent packet loss rate: rephrased in English, five out of the nine pigeons appeared to have wandered off, or have been eaten.)
Tung-Hui Hu
#62. If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for a Norwegian writer.
Per Petterson
#63. The great Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose once said, liberally translated, the only things worth writing about are love and murder.
Henning Mankell
#64. Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.
Christopher Heyerdahl
#65. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.
John Milton
#66. As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
Fritz Sauckel
#67. Don't tell the Scandinavians I said this, but "Swedish," "Norwegian," and "Danish" are all really one "language,
John McWhorter
#69. People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.
David Soul
#70. When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together.
Haruki Murakami
#71. Like my hairstyle?" she asked.
"It's great."
"How great?"
"Great enough to knock down all the trees in all the forests of the world.
Haruki Murakami
#72. The best way to tell whether the Norwegian is a Norwegian is to say:
"Are you Swedish?"
Regardless whether you say this in English, French, Italian, Japanese, Urdu or Swahili, he will answer:
"Swedish? Me? I'm a Norwegian!"
Then you will be able to tell.
Odd Borretzen
#73. I don't give a damn about power and money per se. Really, I don't. I may be a selfish bastard, but I'm incredibly cool about shit like that. I could be a Zen saint. The one thing I do have, though, is curiosity. I want to see what I can do out there in the big, tough world.
Haruki Murakami
#74. I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
Karin Fossum
#75. But your problems are not going to continue for the rest of your life
Haruki Murakami
#76. Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
Jose Manuel Barroso
#77. No matter what we said, people would believe what they wanted to believe. The more we struggled, the more vulnerable we'd be.
Haruki Murakami
#79. I love you," I said to her. "From the bottom of my heart. I don't ever want to let you go again. But there's nothing I can do. I can't make a move."
"Because of her?"
I nodded.
Haruki Murakami
#80. What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.
Haruki Murakami
#81. Even a rat will choose the least painful route if you shock him enough
Haruki Murakami
#82. Minneapolis was small, somnolent, and full of Swedish and Norwegian farmers as charming as cornstalks.
Erik Larson
#83. I think I can work with different crews; I've worked with Bulgarian, Norwegian, Japanese, and Chinese crews. For me, the most important thing is the storytelling, and I'm really comfortable working with all kinds of languages.
Isabel Coixet
#84. I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me.
John Lennon
#85. I suppose it's all a matter of attitude. You could let a lot of things bother you if you wanted to - the rules, the idiots who think they're hot shit, ...
Haruki Murakami
#86. Norbert?" Charlie laughed. "The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now."
"Wha
Norbert's a girl?"
"Oh yeah," said Charlie.
"How can you tell?" asked Hermoine.
"They're a lot more vicious," said Charlie.
J.K. Rowling
#87. I guess I don't really understand you yet,' I said. 'I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have time, I will come to understand you
better than anyone else in the world ever can.
Haruki Murakami
#88. There was much about him that was fine and beautiful, but he could never find the confidence he needed.
Haruki Murakami
#89. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.
Haruki Murakami
#90. Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.
Jo Nesbo
#91. A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.
Knut Hamsun
#92. Norwegian racism is always a kind of racism that is not prepared to accept it being qualified as such. Because we're the good guys, and racism is what bad people do.
Michael Booth
#93. I loved Midori. And I had probably known as much for a while. I had just been avoiding the conclusion for a very long time.
Haruki Murakami
#94. That one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities
Haruki Murakami
#95. I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.
Alexander Hanson
#96. What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're wondering if people jump to their feet and shout stuff like 'It'll rain tomorrow if a polar bear eats the stars tonight!
Haruki Murakami
#97. Here I was, seeing you almost every week, and talking with you, and knowing that the only one in your heart was Kizuki. It hurt. It really hurt. And I think that's why I slept with girls I didn't know.
Haruki Murakami
#98. My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.
Roald Dahl
#99. What had happened to the body I held in my arms that night last spring?
Haruki Murakami
#100. In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying "the script" this and "the script" that, when they've never read the script any more than they've read the latest report on Norwegian herring landings.
William Monahan
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