Olav H. Hauge Quotes

One word — one stone in a cold river. One more stone— I'll need many stones if I'm going to get over.

Olav H. Hauge

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• I know I look super young.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Know
  • Look
  • Young

• It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Up
  • Music
  • Dream

• I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Know
  • Dreaming
  • Expecting

• There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Way
  • Prosperity

• I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Know
  • Sex

• Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Yourself

• Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Learn
  • Teach
  • Masses

• I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Me
  • Working
  • Possibilities

• I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Band
  • Old
  • Hell

• I would kill to be on 'Dexter,' and I would double kill to be on 'True Blood.' I would pay them to let me come be a vampire or a vampire victim. No joke!

  

  Callie Thorne
  • True
  • Me
  • Blood

• When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Band
  • Going
  • Ending

• This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Like
  • Doors
  • Hot

• I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Want
  • Free

• Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Me
  • Television
  • Example

• A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good

• The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth. p. 92

  

  Irving Kirsch

• A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it. But it is unbecoming in an artist to talk about inspiration; that is the reader's business.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Artist
  • Inspiration

• Choir of Women: It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation. (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Men
  • Women
  • Present

• I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Heart
  • Lost
  • Sea

• The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.

  

  Chen Shui-bian
  • May
  • Democracy
  • Road

• One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone to something better.

  

  Colonel Sanders
  • Remember
  • Failure
  • Stone

• What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.

  

  Aristotle
  • Know
  • Things
  • Sense

• One word — one stone in a cold river. One more stone— I'll need many stones if I'm going to get over.

  

  Olav H. Hauge
  • Word
  • River
  • Stone