The Golden Compass Iorek Byrnison Quotes

#1. Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

D.H. Lawrence

#2. The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.

Barry Ritholtz

#3. I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team.

Alisher Usmanov

#4. The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith.

Galileo Galilei

#5. I have ridden with death, and walked beside it. Some say I have sought it. The search would not have been difficult, but I look for the death of my enemies first. That is much harder to find.

N.D. Wilson

#6. She wanted him to be the sunshine to her clouds. She couldn't handle the idea that he had weather patterns of his own, and that he contained within himself the makings of a downpour and possibly even a monsoon.

Lucinda Rosenfeld

#7. You must come again when you have less time.

Walter Sickert

#8. The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly.

Lily King

#9. Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.

Camilla Lackberg

#10. The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way.

Howard Gardner

#11. Teaching English is an intrinsically radical act. Is it possible to teach English so that people stop killing each other?

Mary Rose O'Reilley

#12. I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is much more interesting, but it's much more difficult.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#13. When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

Bill Griffith