Henrik Ibsen Quotes

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

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• There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Morning
  • Distance
  • View

• I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

  

  Babette March
  • Money
  • Myself
  • Army

• I'm going to be acting all my life. But, while doing that, I will try to avoid the trappings of fame.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Life
  • Acting
  • My Life

• The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Life
  • Real
  • Political

• We midwives and physicians have a lot to teach each other.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Teach
  • Lot
  • Other

• When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.

  

  Feist
  • World
  • Friends
  • Brother

• Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Food

• I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • American
  • Football
  • English

• What a name – Pyotr Frankis. I wondered who had made it up for him. Pyotr Frankis, Jascha – Slavs all over the place, it would seem. Just like my great-grandmother. I felt for her in my mind about the same way you’d feel for a stray piece of food in your mouth with your tongue, but as usual, I had no sense of her beyond a particularly intense memory.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Up
  • Great
  • Mind

• Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.

  

  Al Pacino
  • History
  • Look
  • Terrorist

• When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my dad and I had to stick together!

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Up
  • Women
  • Together

• Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Life
  • Forever
  • inspirational

• I remember when both Gnarls Barkley and Justin [Timberlake] lost for Album of the Year [at the Grammys], and I looked at Justin, and I was like: 'Do you want me to go onstage for you? You know, do you want me to fight?

  

  Kanye West
  • Remember
  • Lost

• I don't want to be any problem to him, ... I just want to be somebody that, when he has a problem, he can come talk to me about it.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Problem

• The only constant in the technology industry is change.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Change
  • Technology
  • Industry

• I am right. I`m always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Time
  • Found
  • One Time

• I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Up
  • She
  • Experience

• Success can lead to complacency, and complacency is the greatest enemy of success.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • Enemy
  • Complacency

• Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Responsibility
  • Joy
  • Democracy

• You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Rest

• Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Mean
  • Destined
  • Toush