Jostein Gaarder Quotes

Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.

Jostein Gaarder

• Lose
• Life is
• Wander
• Brief

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• You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • You
  • Look
  • Will

• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Society
  • Teacher

• In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • End
  • Born

• The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Human
  • Data
  • Volumes

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• By the way, I understand that now you can have the Times delivered to your door here in the Twin Cities.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Door
  • Understand
  • Now

• I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Never
  • Movement
  • Fast

• I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Other
  • Involvement

• My mom always knew I was going to be an actor because I was a ham from the very beginning, so she would push me toward it, which is really unconventional for Indian families to do.

  

  Aarti Mann
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Beginning

• If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Fight
  • Angry
  • Mistakes

• I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Space

• I like to do really realistic paintings, which requires so much focus; like, if I have to go to the bathroom or change a song, I can't; I'm so in it.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Song
  • Change
  • Focus

• My father loved Brazilian football, a diehard follower, so of course, he hated Germany and always rooted against them, always.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Father
  • Football
  • Loved

• Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.

  

  Rajneesh
  • Good
  • Bad

• Does what you think of you determine your worth?

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Thinking
  • Doe
  • Determine

• We think it necessary that an active and meaningful dialogue on this topic be resumed with the new U.S. administration as soon as possible

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Think
  • Meaningful
  • Possible

• One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
  • Funny
  • Thing

• A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

  

  Herodotus
  • Respect
  • Woman
  • Garments

• From a writing standpoint, maybe television is a little more satisfying because it's not all hinging on one thing. You can experiment, week to week, and you can be a little narrower in your scope one week, and then be a little broader the next week. But with film, everything can look the way you want it to look. You can really sculpt the final product. So from a directorial standpoint, film is more satisfying. But, they're both forms of media that I'd like to keep involvement in.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Writing
  • Film
  • Week

• The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Lose

• The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Honest
  • Stupidity
  • Brief

• Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other---and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Lose
  • Life is
  • Wander