Quotes About Reykjavik

#1. Contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century.

Nick Hornby

#2. Don't you worry about that, Mr. Adamsson. Why don't you head back to Reykjavik and spend some of that extortionate fee you charged me for a couple of hours' usage of your frankly third-rate restaurant and perhaps find a friendless tree stump to listen to your woes?

Eoin Colfer

#3. Helga Sigrid was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, and still had an accent right out of Wagner. She was almost as tall as he was, and as Nordic as it was possible to get without disappearing altogether whenever the sun came out.

Carsten Stroud

#4. In Reykjavik, Iceland, where I was born, you are in the middle of nature surrounded by mountains and ocean. But you are still in a capital in Europe. So I have never understood why I have to choose between nature or urban.

Bjork

#5. When I made '101 Reykjavik,' people talked about 'Almodovar on ice.' When I made 'The Sea,' people referenced Bergman.

Baltasar Kormakur

#6. I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became night.

Siri Hustvedt

#7. I've realized the most effective way to write, for me, is knowing what to throw away.

Youth Lagoon

#8. She smelled of lemon and sunshine and a thousand Summer days filled with laughter.

Elizabeth Camden

#9. I used to be double-jointed in my hips, so I could put my toe in my mouth. That can't be classed as a talent really, rather a mild deformity.

Sara Cox

#10. Never put your business in the hands of one person or a select few. People leave. People die. People forget.

Liz Weber

#11. On My Trip to Europe I know you think you're going to get all kinds of laid. It's not a magic place, it's the same as here. Don't be stupid.

Justin Halpern

#12. Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

Orison Swett Marden

#13. If you want the answer - ask the question.

Lorii Myers

#14. I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.

Jean Vanier

#15. If love was a disease, I'd been cured.

Melissa Kantor

#16. Thought enables us to see Fate coming.

Mason Cooley