Norwegians Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Unions, Conformity, States

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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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• It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police officer had reasonable suspicion, he would ask and verify your citizenship. I mean, that's the way that it is. That's what the federal law says. And that's what the law in Arizona says.

  Jan Brewer

  Mean, Law, Police

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

  Liv Ullmann

  Spirit, Birth, Ibsen

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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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• Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Growing Up, Kids, Directors

  "'King of Devil's Island': Stellan Skarsgård mentors" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.

  Alexander Hanson

  Mother, Secret, Want

  "THE LEADING MEN: Alexander Hanson and Colman Domingo". Interview with Tom Nondorf, www.playbill.com. January 6, 2010.

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• For instance, against the tremendous resistance of Hitler and Kaltenbrunner, and at first Himmler too, I managed to save nine thousand Norwegians and Danes, whom I had released from concentration camps.

  Walter Schellenberg

  Nine, Resistance, Firsts

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• It turns out that conservationism can be fun, with the news that the Norwegian red king crab - which weighs in at an impressive full kilo of juicy crabby goodness per shell - must be eaten as much as possible, because it's scoffing all the other fish in Norway. In fact, it would be remiss of all of us if we didn't eat as many of these buggers as we possible can every week because they now provide a genuine ecological threat to fellow marine life. So, c'mon vegetarians. Let's see how much you really care about the environment.

  Ian O'Doherty

  Funny, Kings, Marine

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• What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become! Here the Swede would find again his clear, romantic lakes, the plains of Scane rich in corn, and the valleys of Norrland; here the Norwegian would find his rapid rivers ... The climate, the situation, the character of the scenery agrees with our people better than that of any other American States.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Character, Lakes, Rivers

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• The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

  Bill Bryson

  Giving, Worry, Television

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Father, Men

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• I think I can work with different crews; I've worked with Bulgarian, Norwegian, Japanese, and Chinese crews. For me, the most important thing is the storytelling, and I'm really comfortable working with all kinds of languages.

  Isabel Coixet

  Thinking, Chinese, Important

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I have worked in a very close and cordial way with Norwegian representatives at many international meetings, and the pleasure I felt at those associations was equaled only by the profit I always secured from them.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Association, Way, Pleasure

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• Being attacked by the press is not something I see as a problem, but rather a confirmation that I am on the right track. It is even better when they ignore me completely, like the Norwegian press does; that means they are really afraid.

  Varg Vikernes

  Mean, Track, Doe

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them ... gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians -- upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall.

  Winston Churchill

  Stars, Night, Race

  Arm Yourselves and Be Ye Men of Valour, BBC Radio Broadcast 19 May 1940

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• Fifteen hundred years is ample time in which to lose mutual comprehension. Iceland was colonized by the Norwegians at the end of the ninth century AD. Today's Icelanders, with considerable effort, can understand people from the Scandinavian peninsula, but the Scandinavians hardly understand the Icelanders. A thousand years is the minimum time span for a language to change so much that it becomes incomprehensible.

  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

  Years, Iceland, People

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