Jostein Gaarder Quotes

Perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead.

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• In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Teenager
  • Ways
  • Normal

• I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • People
  • Think
  • Care

• I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Career
  • Politics
  • Strength

• I'm happiest when I'm moving.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Moving
  • Happiest

• The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Enough

• I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Work
  • Believe

• The unknown used to be really scary, just that fear of, 'What's next? What if I'm not prepared?' I just don't feel that way anymore. I feel like the best is yet to come.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Scary

• There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Power
  • Shopping

• You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • School
  • Art
  • Best

• I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Word
  • Curiosity
  • Governing

• I'm an old trial lawyer.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • Old
  • Lawyer
  • Trial

• Doing 'Narcos' is a very, very important part of my life. I dedicated so much of my life to it.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • Life
  • Important
  • My Life

• For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Long
  • Me
  • Desire

• Ann Coulter is very popular. She has got a niche. She is a best selling author, but she does not represent Republican women.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Popular
  • Author

• I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Mind
  • Sleep
  • Bed

• A revolution is not a bed of roses.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Revolution
  • Bed
  • Roses

• I don't like having to be pushed into a box.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Like
  • Box
  • Pushed

• Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate

  

  W. J. T. Mitchell
  • Writing
  • Form
  • Inseparable

• I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Life
  • Purpose

• A fighter should not think only of his shete, just because he has a shete in his hand. Everything is a weapon in the warrior's mind.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • War

• Existence is.. well.. what does it matter? I exist on the best terms I can. The past is now part of my future. The present is well out of hand.

  

  Ian Curtis Joy Division
  • Future
  • Past
  • Hand

• I'm a couch potato. I love to stay in and just watch a DVD with the missus. Or we all go over to Louis's house and watch 'X Factor.'

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Love
  • House
  • Just

• Perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Hands
  • Direction
  • Begun