Jostein Gaarder Quotes

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

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• I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• Let there be a door to thy mouth, that it may be shut when need arises, and let it be carefully barred, that none may rouse thy voice to anger, and thou pay back abuse with abuse.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • May
  • Door
  • Voice

• I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Men
  • Long
  • Home

• I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Hope
  • Career
  • Win

• My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Live
  • Children
  • Grandfather

• My parents, particularly my father, had been used by commentators, political journalists and political commentators, to attack me, and the collateral damage was the reputations of my father and my mother.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Parents

• Regardless of my legislation, spending has to be stopped.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Regardless
  • Legislation

• I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Attention
  • Brain
  • Poor

• The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Men
  • Know
  • Play

• I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it's not an overconsuming country.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Country
  • Business
  • America

• I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Good
  • God
  • Love

• I don't want to play everyone's best friend. I don't want to play the role of a girl struggling in the ghetto. It's not that that story isn't important, but I saw patterns, and was like, 'I don't relate to these people.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Important
  • Girl

• In the nineties, it was common to see people who expressed themselves through one designer - the Jil Sander woman, the Martin Margiela woman. You saw her on the street, and you knew who she was.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • She
  • Woman

• I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'

  

  Gattlin Griffith
  • Funny
  • Me
  • Nice

• In the 1930s and the 1940s, we set up the FHA. We set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. We set up specific bureaus to make our communities look the way they look.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Home
  • Way

• I could care less about being an action actor like Stallone or Schwarzenegger.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Action
  • Care
  • Actor

• Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Success
  • Busy
  • Come

• In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• When I feel hurt, I fully experience my emotions (and don't make them anyone else's problem!). Then I question my thoughts, examining my belief system and meeting the reality of life.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Reality
  • Problem
  • Hurt

• War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • War
  • Peace
  • Damnation

• Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Problem
  • Animal
  • Human