Top 22 Smilla Quotes
#1. There's a look of mischief in his eyes. 'Smilla. Why is it that such an elegant and petite girl like you has such a rough voice.'
I'm sorry,' I say, 'if I give you the impression that it is only my mouth that's rough. I do my best to be rough all over.
Peter Hoeg
#2. Some thoughts have glue on them.----Smilla
Peter Hoeg
#4. One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.
A.B. Simpson
#5. I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.
Peter Hoeg
#6. Chapter 8: Alteration Speed. You will be introduced to the "safeguard," known as alteration speed. Through mastery of body mechanics, you will develop the ability to stop and adjust instantly in the midst of movement - just in case you initiate a wrong move!
J. Barnes
#7. When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready.
C.S. Lewis
#8. I don't think you can be a physician and not see yourself reflected in your patient's illness. How would I deal with the kind of news I'd given Mr. Walters?
Abraham Verghese
#9. Sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.
Rebecca West
#11. It's the kind of day that might make you wonder about the meaning of life, and discover that there is none.
Peter Hoeg
#12. I've always considered myself a workaholic ... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.
Josh Homme
#13. All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.
Seneca The Younger
#14. It is just as important to trust God as it is to obey Him. When we disobey God we defy His authority and despise His holiness. But when we fail to trust God we doubt His sovereignty and question His goodness.
Jerry Bridges
#15. I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you.
Nora Roberts
#17. I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
Groucho Marx
#18. When people talk about how fast children forget, how fast they forgive, how sensitive they are, I let it go in one ear and out the other. Children can remember and forget and totally freeze to death the people they don't like.
Peter Hoeg Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow
#20. It's not that I am "above" feeling hatred. It's that I make the choice whether to yield to it or not. Hatred keeps a person with you, and the last thing I want with me in my thoughts is someone who doesn't deserve to be there.
Donna Lynn Hope
#21. There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.
Henry Ward Beecher
#22. Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?
Terry McMillan
