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
  • Strange
  • Places
  • Far

• 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
  • History
  • Evil
  • Justice

• The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • People
  • Questions
  • Personal

• When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • Music
  • School
  • Myself

• Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Young
  • Danger

• 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
  • Music
  • Business
  • History

• 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
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • World
  • Running
  • Always

• Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Music
  • Think
  • Noises

• I think I'm like wine. The older I get, the better I get.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Think
  • Better
  • Wine

• Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

  

  J. Cole
  • Words
  • Cool
  • Sometimes

• There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Believe
  • Popular
  • I Believe

• Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Fool

• 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
  • Girl
  • Friend
  • Kissing

• 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
  • Life
  • Music
  • Dark

• Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot.

  

  Andrew Eldritch The Sisters of Mercy
  • Rock

• The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of the sea, for the colours and smells of the Italian and French Riviera.

  

  Alain Ducasse
  • Sea
  • Italian

• The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.

  

  Lactantius
  • Family
  • Justice
  • Humanity

• The only one that I think I could beat, if my life depended on it, would be the Predator. If it was in my territory, in my domain, with the guns that I've got, I think I could hurt him pretty bad. That's the only one, though. When you get into metaphysical creatures, they don't play fair.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• I think, in Japan, animation isn't relegated to being a genre unto itself. It's just a medium by which you can tell any number of stories, be it horror or action or adventure or drama or whatever, and we're trying to do that as well. Every film that you go see from Pixar, we're hoping is a little bit of a surprise.

  

  Pete Docter
  • Trying
  • Action
  • Drama

• Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television.

  

  Angela Cartwright
  • Together
  • Words
  • Adventure

• 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
  • Adventure
  • Experiences
  • Joker