Jostein Gaarder Quotes
Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it.Jostein Gaarder
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
Gary Burghoff -
Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
Daniel Boulud -
If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
Eartha Kitt -
Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
Ian McShane -
The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
J. B. Pritzker -
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
Maggie Gallagher
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America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.
Maajid Nawaz -
Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
Talcott Parsons -
Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
Patricia A. Woertz -
Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.
Walter Pater -
I don't pretend that I can imagine myself as a Palestinian.
Yitzhak Rabin -
For me, if I have the choice between an extra 45 minutes in bed or getting up at 4:30 A.M. to go to the gym, I will always choose bed.
Caitriona Balfe
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We are all trying to achieve our dreams.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.
Harper Lee -
That which has no limitations, has no form. The limitations of two conterminous bodies are interchangeably the surface of each. All the surfaces of a body are not parts of that body.
Leonardo da Vinci -
I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
Agatha Christie -
One starts by seeing the person who poses, but little by little all the possible sculptures of him intervene... The more real a real vision of him disappears, the stranger his head becomes.
Alberto Giacometti -
You still got that light in your eye,And our day is comin’ by and by.I’m travellin’ this long road here with you;We still gotta long way, we still gotta long way to go.
Gerry Rafferty
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Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a very active imagination. I loved Sunday school and Bible camp and all that. I had my own white Bible with Jesus' words printed in red in the text; I even spoke at youth revivals.
Lee Smith -
I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.
Zainab Salbi -
Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.
Nigel Kneale -
It is with tremendous excitement and pride that EMILY's List endorses Senator Hillary Clinton for president.
Ellen Malcolm -
I'm not sure it's a better music world of appreciation and performance. I think the listener is a different guy, and listening is something he does in passing, with other stuff going on. There's less care and understanding of the relationship between the song and the listener.
Al Jarreau -
Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it.
Jostein Gaarder