Denmark Quotes - Page 4

• Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

  Moving, Needs, Need A Change

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Passing Away, Switzerland, Novelists

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• Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me have me hastily attaching a feedbag.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Pigs, Towers

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• Today there's a change of guards in Denmark.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

  Today

  "Denmark elects its first female prime minister" by Jan M. Olsen and Karl Ritter, www.sfgate.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark, where my father's from. I've traveled a lot, and having that sort of background probably increased the chance that I was going to remain curious as an adult about people who are different.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Baby, New York, Father

  "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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• I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some players who played in Holland and they were a bit like the Dutch.

  Simon Kuper

  Player, Support, Cups

  "Dutch Orange men get the blues" by Simon Hooper, www.cnn.com. May 10, 2002.

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• Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Mermaid, Rotten, Cold

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

  Isak Dinesen

  Coffee, Soul, Body

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.245, Vintage

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• I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

  Goodbye, Government, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Be Kind, Said, Immortal

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• I am confident that those who believe in belief are wrong. That is, we no more need to preserve the myth of God in order to preserve a just and stable society than we needed to cling to the Gold Standard to keep our currency sound. It was a useful crutch, but we've outgrown it. Denmark, according to a recent study, is the sanest, healthiest, happiest, most crime-free nation in the world, and by and large the Danes simply ignore the God issue. We should certainly hope that those who believe in belief are wrong, because belief is waning fast, and the props are beginning to buckle.

  Daniel Dennett

  Faith, Believe, Order

  "The folly of pretence" by Daniel Dennett, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2009.

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• I think something must happen to you when you get into eight grade. Like the Doug Swieteck's Brother Gene switches on and you become a jerk.
  Which may have been Hamlet, Prince of Denmark's problem, who, besides having a name that makes him sound like a breakfast special at Sunnyside Morning Restaurant--something between a ham slice and a three-egg omelet--didn't have the smarts to figure out that when someone takes the trouble to come back from beyond the grave to tell you that he's been murdered, it's probably behooveful to pay attention--which is the adjectival form.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Morning, Brother, Smart

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• I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

  George R. R. Martin

  Looks, Flags, Ships

  "Fantasy Author George R.R. Martin: Blood of Bayonne". Interview with Joanna Buffum and Dylan Runco, njmonthly.com. March 15, 2013.

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• On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Daughter, Kings, Queens

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• The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.

  James Surowiecki

  Country, Ceilings, United States

  "Smash the Ceiling". www.newyorker.com. August 1, 2011.

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• I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• I hope that all critical Muslims read the ruling in full, because it states very clearly what freedom of expression in Denmark is about.

  Carsten Juste

  Expression, States, Ruling

  "Papers Won't Be Charged for Publishing Muslim Cartoons". www.foxnews.com. March 15, 2006.

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• You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?" "I can tell." "Then you can't say you've read the whole play." "I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." "Who knows?" she said. "Maybe you can't.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Happy Life, Thinking, Play

  Gary D. Schmidt (2007). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap recipes?

  Michael Pollan

  America, Environmental, Sugar Cookies

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• I think it would be unfortunate if people in Saudi Arabia or some parts of the world influenced what we speak about in Denmark. [But] it's a fact of globalization, and we must consider it.

  Flemming Rose

  Thinking, People, Arabia

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• You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Years, Names, Scandinavians

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• I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.

  Annaleigh Ashford

  Musical, Theatre, Denver

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• I mean, in the foreword to Impro in Denmark is by Søren Iversen, who I taught long ago, he was a Danish director, after he left. He said he'd read about [Eugeny] Vakhtangov. I'm a fan of his. When he heard that Vakhtangov had lots of tricks, he thought this was very bad. But when he came to be my student, he realised it was very good to have a lot of tricks. You saw some this morning.

  Keith Johnstone

  Morning, Mean, Long Ago

  Source: actorsandperformers.com

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• Bernie Sanders did not wake up last night with this great idea that we should guarantee health care to all people as a right. Actually, it exists in every other major country on earth. You don't know that, because the media has forgotten to tell you that. But it does exist. In Denmark, because of union negotiations, the minimum wage is about $20 an hour. In Germany, you go to college tuition-free. In Finland, they actually pay you to go to college. Now, you don't know that in America because CBS forgot to tell you. But that is the reality.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Night, Reality

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! 
  (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)

  Alan Hansen

  Scotland, Half, England

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