Jostein Gaarder Quotes

What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.

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• If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Complain

• I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Life
  • Character
  • Death

• I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Think

• Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Political
  • Mistake
  • Organization

• My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Family
  • Father
  • Italian

• Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Life
  • God
  • True

• Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Movies
  • Try

• You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

  

  Larry McMurtry
  • Good
  • Country
  • Simple

• When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Night
  • Hand

• You have created a monster and it will destroy you.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Monster

• Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.

  

  Maureen Forrester
  • Great
  • Music
  • Spiritual

• I want to be known as someone who develops individuals, not just companies.

  

  Cheryl Yeoh

• A lot of people think Christianity is about always being perfect. It's actually the opposite of that. It's realizing that we're all humans, and that's why God sent his Son to this earth - to save people.

  

  Billy Ray Cyrus
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays.

  

  Bill Joy
  • Preparation

• We hear much of Bolshevism, much of labor unrest; at times, we hear the word 'revolution.' But these are but contagious diseases in the body of civilization, and I believe that the antitoxins of good cheer, mutual confidence, fairness and justice will ultimately cure these ills and make the world healthy and strong again.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that.

  

  Katie Price
  • People
  • Today

• All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Progress

• I called my mom sobbing when Birdie was a few months old and said, 'I'm sorry. All this time, I had no idea how much you loved me.'

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Sorry

• Poetry is a magic of pauses ... not a thing of tunes, but of heightened consciousness.

  

  Marianne Moore
  • Poetry
  • Magic

• I thought I might die. But then I thought, 'Other people have made it through these things before'. I kept my eyes on the lights on shore and kept swimming.

  

  Clint Eastwood
  • People
  • Die
  • Eyes

• Almost anything can be justified as a style of filmmaking if it works.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Style

• What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Horse
  • Pig