Jostein Gaarder Quotes
It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.
Jostein Gaarder
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No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause.
John Mason Brown
One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click shows the anatomy bare. In this, the photographer is invisible but essential. A computer releasing the shutter would always miss the special moment that the human sensibility can register. For this work, the photographer's instinct is his aid, his personality a hindrance.
Peter Brook
Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyone — in order to know them better, not in order to know something else.
William H. Gass
Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.
Harry S Truman
People throughout time have grieved, have fallen in love, have fallen out of love. We are sometimes petty and sometimes heroic, and we have been that way forever.
Monica Hesse
With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.
Carles Puigdemont
Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
Ian McShane
Whenever you see a successful woman, look out for three men who are going out of their way to try to block her.
Yulia Tymoshenko
Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
D. B. Sweeney
I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.
Patrick Chan
Depression has existed as long as mankind itself, and certainly well before psychiatry, antidepressant medication, or the nation of America itself came into being.
Vikram Patel
It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.
Jostein Gaarder
