Jostein Gaarder Quotes
If just one of those people experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.
Jostein Gaarder
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
H. P. Lovecraft
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie
When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.
Dan Deacon
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann
What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
Nancy Sinatra
After a point of time, when you get success and fame, money and everything, the purpose of life has to be redefined. For me, I think that purpose is to build bridges. Artists can do that very easily, more than politicians.
A. R. Rahman
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
Edward Abbey
I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.
Breckin Meyer
I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.
Jenny Lewis
Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.
Andrew Eldritch
The Sisters of Mercy
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus
I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on Head Start, on poverty. But I was struck by the children, and the damage that poverty was doing to them. I didn't think filming them was helping much, so I wondered how we could use TV for them, to teach them.
Joan Ganz Cooney
If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he's the hell of a diplomat.
Agnes Sligh Turnbull
It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.
John Tyndall
My pick up line is: Slow down sugar, cause I’m a diabetic!
Nick Jonas
Jonas Brothers
So long as we were in a room in a brothel, we belonged to our fantasies, but once having exposed them, we're now tied up with human beings, tied to you and forced to go on with this adventure according to the laws of visibility.
Jean Genet
My dream role is to play in a story of how the Joker became the Joker, and I would play the young Heath Ledger.
Jonny Weston
If just one of those people experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.
Jostein Gaarder
