Henrik Ibsen Quotes

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

Henrik Ibsen

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• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Dark

• Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Door
  • Step
  • First Step

• I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Pretty
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fun

• Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Slavery
  • Lord
  • Bondage

• This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Family
  • Religion
  • Rich

• I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Time
  • Story
  • Inspired

• At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • English
  • First
  • Poison

• I've had many nicknames over the years: V, Nessa, Nessy Poo, Nessy Bear and Van. Only my parents call me Van, though, and I hate it. I get embarrassed.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Parents
  • Hate
  • Embarrassed

• I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Personality

• I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Up
  • Good
  • Age

• That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Him

• A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Home
  • Singing
  • Bird

• Over the years, I've learned a lot about nutrition and about myself, so it's a lot more based on feel. I stopped putting a number on it because people were analyzing it too much.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Myself
  • Nutrition

• The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I remember watching that video and forgetting it was from a woman's point of view, and forgetting it was a country song, and forgetting it was originally by Dolly Parton.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Time
  • Country
  • Remember

• I have literally been working in music just about my entire life.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Life
  • Music
  • Working

• I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Illusions

• The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Charity

• If you look at 'Doctor Who,' it's a Time Lord in a blue box who travels around the universe. It's a silly concept, but it's one of the most brilliant, emotional experiences because it's sort of about what is humanity.

  

  Margaret Stohl
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Humanity

• If I had had me for a student I would have thrown me out of class immediately.

  

  Lynda Barry

• When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Time
  • Dad

• Stormtrooper Mel : Don't be stupid, be a smarty Come and join the Nazi Party!

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Party
  • Stupid

• In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Party
  • Hollywood
  • Birthday

• A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Party
  • Machine
  • Baloney