Jostein Gaarder Quotes

I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch.

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• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Impossible

• I used to have a lovely Chelsea loft - then I got divorced.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Used
  • Lovely
  • Chelsea

• I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.

  

  Dana Hill
  • People
  • Me
  • Look

• Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Advertising

• When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Me

• True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • True
  • Success
  • Freedom

• I recall playing practical jokes with John Wayne. I once got a whole bunch of keys and had little tags made that said, 'If lost, please return to John Wayne, RKO Studios. Reward.' And I just dropped them all over town. He got a lot of phone calls, people showing up at the studio. He never learned who did it.

  

  Laraine Day
  • People
  • Up
  • Lost

• He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Age

• I'm big on research.

  

  James L. Brooks

• The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

  

  David Horsey
  • Money
  • Truth
  • American

• It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Important
  • Women
  • Daughter

• I have no idea whether I'm any good or not. Still waiting, like most actors, for somebody to find out one day that I can't do it.

  

  Art Malik
  • Good
  • Waiting

• When you come back on top after you've fallen, it's a better story.

  

  Freddie Freeman

• Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace,The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe,The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release,The indifferent judge between the high and low.

  

  Philip Sidney
  • High
  • Peace
  • Sleep

• Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.

  

  Eric Maskin
  • Financial

• We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Time
  • Family
  • Church

• The guarantees of civil liberty are but guarantees of freedom of the human mind and spirit and of reasonable freedom and opportunity to express them...The very essence of the liberty which they guarantee is the freedom of the individual from compulsion as to what he shall think and what he shall say...

  

  Harlan Stone
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Freedom

• Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is partly because hard work and even the weariness it leaves carry a nobility with them, but also because there is no room in such lives for inferior mental occupation.

  

  Ernest Dimnet
  • Business
  • Culture
  • Quality

• If you ask people what attracted them to the person they love, they never tell you of some perfect feature that focused them on sheer surfaces but rather an imperfection that allowed them to see into their uncharted depths.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Love
  • Focused
  • Imperfection

• Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

  

  William Blake
  • Kill
  • Butterfly
  • Judgement

• I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana." I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV."

  

  Niecy Nash
  • Long
  • Black
  • Baby

• Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Despite

• I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Butterfly
  • Catch