Rolvaag Quotes

#1. No, your worst sin does not consist in what you did to your husband that day; rather it lies in your discontent with God's special creatures, with your fellow men. For this reason you can experience no real happiness....That is a grievous sin, Beret Holm!

O.E. Rolvaag

#2. Many and incredible are the tales the grandfathers tell from those days when the wilderness was yet untamed, and when they, unwittingly, founded the Kingdom.

O.E. Rolvaag

#3. Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars

Holless Wilbur Allen

#4. I'm a girl's girl. I'm a woman's woman. I'm a cool girl.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#5. A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.

Paul McCartney

#6. Let me be frank even though I'm Vincent and prefer to be called V.

Brian Celio

#7. People had never dwelt here, people would never come; never could they find home in this vast, wind-swept void.

O.E. Rolvaag

#8. Death was in every fibre of these creatures. It was hidden in their languages and at the root of their civilizations. You could hear it in the sounds they made and see it in the way they moved. It darkened their pleasures and lightened their despair.

Andre Alexis

#9. Here was the endless prairie, so rich in its blessings of fertility, but also full of great loneliness--a form of freedom which curiously affected the minds of strangers, especially those to whom the Lord had given a sad heart.

O.E. Rolvaag

#10. I became an actress way into my 30s because I thought that I had to find my own way, and that's why I worked so much in modelling, until I realised that the differences between acting and modelling weren't that great. I always say that modelling is a little bit like being a silent actress.

Isabella Rossellini

#11. Truth is like a waterslide-only fun when it's slippery and wet.

Bob Dylan

#12. You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

Bill Nye

#13. That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics.

Glen Mazzara

#14. Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.

Karl Marx

#15. The explanation was plain; this desolation out here called forth all that was evil in human nature.

O.E. Rolvaag

#16. A feeling of unfathomable loneliness settled upon her.

O.E. Rolvaag

#17. There is no leveller like Christianity - but it levels by lifting to a lofty table-land, accessible only to humility. He only who is humble can rise, and rising lift.

George MacDonald

#18. I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it.

Will Smith

#19. There is no reason for beauty. It just is.

Erin Kellison

#20. But more to be dreaded than this tribulation was the strange spell of sadness which the unbroken solitude cast upon the minds of stone.

O.E. Rolvaag

#21. Modesty needs to come from the heart.

David K. Bernard

#22. 'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.

Richard Dawkins

#23. When the quarrel had finally worn itself out they had found themselves at opposite ends of the earth, though lying side by side in the same bed.

O.E. Rolvaag