Jo Nesbo Quotes

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.

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• Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Water
  • Drink
  • Stay

• I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Nice

• To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

  

  Irving Wallace
  • Easy
  • Self
  • Conformity

• God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • God
  • Power

• Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • You
  • Kind
  • Seeing

• When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince instead of the other way around.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Growing

• I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Girl
  • Language
  • Gun

• I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Night
  • City
  • Lights

• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Today
  • Regret

• I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Career
  • Feel
  • Young

• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Dream
  • Society
  • First

• Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Father
  • Hand
  • Sometimes

• I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Fall
  • Made
  • Jump

• If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • People
  • Great
  • Pretty

• There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Poverty
  • Social
  • Disaster

• When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Find
  • Fish

• I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • People
  • Up
  • Single

• I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Long
  • School

• They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Road
  • Chance
  • Ran

• More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.

  

  John Milton
  • Voice
  • Safe
  • Mortal

• I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

  

  Dan Bejar
  • Music
  • Like
  • Putting

• I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• Growth is a stupid goal. So, by the way, is no-growth.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Growth
  • Stupid

• 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
  • Time
  • Business
  • Pretty