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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• People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver - a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Color
  • Gold

• I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

  

  Edmund White
  • Game
  • Want
  • Challenge

• We know that our cells are speaking to each other.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Know
  • Speaking
  • Cells

• Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Walk

• In the past, I had a knee-jerk approach to work, and it showed on screen. I was doing movies for the wrong reasons - trying to juggle dates, do too many guest appearances, take up projects under pressure or for emotional reasons.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• I feel more and more like 'myself' these days. Before becoming a father, I can remember a low-level feeling of somehow not quite being myself.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Feeling

• 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
  • Good
  • Home
  • Heaven

• 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
  • Reality
  • Personality
  • Missing

• 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
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Should

• Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Brave Men

• 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
  • Love
  • Sometimes
  • Fallen

• With Rajoy, there is a taboo topic, which is the aspiration of Catalonia to decide its future.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Future
  • Decide
  • Aspiration

• Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Dad

• I'm so used to knowing what to do with an electric guitar and amplifier, but with an acoustic guitar, it's different, but I still have an amp and a whole bunch of pedals.

  

  Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
  • Different
  • Knowing
  • Acoustic

• 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
  • Sports
  • Golf
  • Tennis

• Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Years
  • Watches
  • Skating

• I definitely didn't think I was going to get any medal when I finished skating. I was just in a little bit of shock.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Finished
  • Skating
  • Medal

• 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
  • Skating
  • Crust
  • Fathoms