Henrik Ibsen Quotes
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
Quotes to Explore
-
A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
-
I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
-
The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
-
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
-
Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
-
Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
-
'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
-
Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
-
I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
-
If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
-
I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
-
I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
-
People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
-
I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
-
As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
-
People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.
-
In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
-
I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military service; I was brought up in a very Jewish, Israeli family environment, so of course my heritage is very important to me.
-
Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.
-
That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.
-
It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.
-
a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up one’s watch, since together with the man, the whole world is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny.
-
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
