Norwegians Quotes

• I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love, Hungry, Feds

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  If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Dec 08, 2014

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• Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Pieces, Paper

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• Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspirational, Life, Sorry

  "Norwegian Wood". Boook by Haruki Murakami, 1987.

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• I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?

  Haruki Murakami

  Want, Next, Remember

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 07, 2012

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• Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Hurt, Loss

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• What happens when people open their hearts?"... "They get better.

  Haruki Murakami

  Broken Heart, Healing, People

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• No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

  Haruki Murakami

  Death, Kindness, Losing A Loved One

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 04, 2012

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• Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 02, 2015

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• My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.

  Grete Waitz

  Philosophy, Expression, Use

  Grete Waitz, Gloria Averbuch (2015). “Run Your First Marathon: Everything You Need to Know to Reach the Finish Line”, p.48, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Directors are always changing things at the last minute. Actors will do a scene, and the director will say, ‘Okay, that was perfect, but this time, Bob, instead of saying “What’s for dinner?” you say, “Wait a minute! Benzene is actually a hydrocarbon!” And say it with a Norwegian accent. Also, we think maybe your character should have no arms.

  Dave Barry

  Character, Thinking, Should Have

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• As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Inspirational, Funny, Boys

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• We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

  Peter Agre

  Christmas, Dad, Dinner

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• It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and all that. But the Vikings cried like women in public or privately. They soaked their beards with tears and were not one bit ashamed about it. Yet, they were as quick to draw their swords as they were to shed tears. So, what's all this crap about men having to hold in their sorrow and grief and disappointment?

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Disappointment, Grief, Sorrow

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• I'm 100% Norwegian. Three generations removed and all continuous inbreeding of Norwegian of Minnesota and Iowa, so I traveled to Norway before.

  Eric Christian Olsen

  Iowa, Inbreeding, Three

  "Eric Christian Olsen On Set Interview THE THING". Interview, collider.com. October 8, 2010.

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• Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

  Christopher Heyerdahl

  Thinking, Agents, Publicity

  "Q&A – Christopher Heyerdahl (The Swede)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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• People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

  David Soul

  Education, Song, Jobs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.

  Liv Ullmann

  Spirit, Birth, Ibsen

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• One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the fairies. Norwegian-Americans the nisser, Greek-Americans the vrykólakas, but only in relation to events remembered in the Old Country. When I once asked why such demons are not seen in America, my informants giggled confusedly and said, 'They're scared to pass the ocean, it's too far,' pointing out that Christ and the apostles never came to American.

  Richard Mercer Dorson

  Country, Crazy, Ocean

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• Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin. I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture

  Jennifer Crusie

  Daughter, Mother, Home

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.68, Macmillan

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• My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

  Roald Dahl

  Father, Hands, Elbows

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• All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

  Roald Dahl

  Children, Swim, Young

  Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.63, Penguin

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• My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'

  Jo Nesbo

  Father, Names, Grandparent

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• How’s Norbert doin’?” Norbert?” Charlie laughed. “The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now.” Wha—Norbert’s a girl?

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Charlie, Laughed

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• At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.

  Jo Nesbo

  Soccer, Player, League

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