Knut Hamsun Quotes
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
Quotes to Explore
-
The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
-
It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
-
I'm an old trial lawyer.
-
Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
-
I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
-
I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.
-
I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
-
Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?
-
I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
-
I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.
-
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.
-
If you get conquered by ego, then you are losing the fight.
-
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
-
My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
-
'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
-
I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works. Judd Apatow is fantastic at it. But as an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written.
-
A general problem with much of Western theology... is that the God portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy, much less a universe.
-
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.
-
Translation is not original creation - that is what one must remember. In translation, some loss is inevitable.
-
If we strive to strengthen our body now; to overcome our faults; to cultivate new virtues; the Sun of our next life will rise under much more auspicious conditions than those under which we now live, and thus we may truly rule our stars and master our fate.
-
I swallowed down all the words, until they knotted up in my throat, and now I'm choking on I love you's and please don't go's.
-
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
