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

• The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • People
  • Live
  • Action

• 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

• To me more dear, congenial to my heart,One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Heart
  • Art

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

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Monster

• Your prudence, my wise friend, allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Wise

• 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

• Espionage and counterespionage go together like horse and carriage.

  

  Charles McCarry
  • Together
  • Horse

• Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? Where is the harp on the harpstring, and the red fire glowing? Where is the spring and the harvest and the tall corn growing? They have passed like rain on the mountain, like a wind in the meadow; The days have gone down in the West behind the hills into shadow. Who shall gather the smoke of the deadwood burning, Or behold the flowing years from the Sea returning?

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Growing
  • Hair
  • Horse

• In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Experience
  • Death
  • Beginning

• I hope I don’t have a trademark style… I don’t design in a vacuum. But, I see my job as a decorator as really to tease out the best version of my clients’ style.

  

  Alexa Hampton
  • Job
  • Style
  • Client

• 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