Jostein Gaarder Quotes

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

Jostein Gaarder

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• I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Enough
  • Author
  • Role

• I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • She
  • Remember

• I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

  

  Valerie June
  • Judge
  • Songs
  • Boss

• I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Positive

• Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Value

• People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. People think I still run every day but I ran for 25 years and I deserve to not do anything but walk or ride the bike with my kids.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Running

• I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • America
  • Parents
  • Worked

• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Life
  • Important
  • May

• I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Nature
  • Awards

• Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Earth
  • Travel
  • Find

• I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Bad
  • Feeling
  • Hate

• The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Children
  • Society

• Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Want
  • Attitude
  • Intelligence

• I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • America
  • Happy
  • Boy

• Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Trust
  • Artist
  • Save

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• There are instances where you're in a space with someone who has been extraordinarily successful, and they don't necessarily connect with you as another person. You can be a prop for them to deliver their stuff, and you're just another element in the scene.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • You
  • Space
  • Successful

• I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music, but I also like the idea of there being really real stuff as well.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • World
  • Music

• I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Up
  • School
  • Team

• This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Morning

• As an anarch, who acknowledges neither law nor custom, I owe it to myself to get at the very heart of things. I then probe them in terms of their contradictions, like image and mirror image. Either is imperfect – by seeking to unite them, which I practice every morning, I manage to catch a corner of reality.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Practice

• If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Child
  • Draws
  • Represent