Jostein Gaarder Quotes

I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.

Jostein Gaarder

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• The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Civilization
  • Jews
  • Heritage

• I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Money
  • Know
  • Less

• You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Up
  • You
  • First

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.

  

  Sam Altman
  • You
  • Internet
  • Now

• I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Real
  • Wish
  • Effort

• I'm not interested in celebrity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Celebrity
  • Not Interested

• The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Movie
  • Eyes
  • Down

• I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Kingdom

• My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Father

• There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Mean
  • Always
  • Peoples

• I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• I've known Bret Michaels forever.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Forever
  • Known

• This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

  

  Gary Hart
  • You
  • Leave
  • San Francisco

• I’m just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I’m the sort of person who worries about the difference between 'slim' and 'slender.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Words

• Good-night; ensured release,Imperishable peace,Have these for yours,While sea abides, and land,And earth's foundations stand,And heaven endures.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Good
  • Night
  • Earth

• There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Life
  • Death
  • Strong

• In a way it costs thousands dollars before you could actually go out to put the show on because you'll need equipments, all the lights you know, and that's more just going out and playing you know.

  

  John Deacon Queen

• I'm very grateful I went to school to study law, particularly tax law, which really is interesting to me and very useful to me now with my position. Music, however, will always be my number one passion; I like how it connects everyone.

  

  Armin van Buuren
  • Music
  • School
  • Interesting

• I love that once you know the basic rules of maths, you can do whatever you want with it.

  

  Rachel Riley
  • Rules
  • Whatever
  • Basic

• I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Trying
  • Value
  • Moon

• The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Wind
  • Mad
  • Blind

• I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Morning
  • Moon
  • Stars