Karin Fossum Quotes
Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
-
Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
-
Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
-
I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
-
We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
-
The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
-
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
-
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
-
Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
-
I want to have an impact on my son.
-
I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
-
'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
-
In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
-
People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
-
I have disassociated myself from that book.
-
If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
-
We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.
-
When you're working in front of the camera, there are always things that occur to you after the director has said 'Cut.' I could probably, if I sat down and thought about it, come up with instances where I wished I had made this particular choice or that particular choice.
-
I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'
-
My view always is that we should learn the lessons, both of the last sort of 50 years of policy-making and it is possible to get to a foreign policy that is engaged and active without going back to where we were in the post-9/11 world.
-
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken Italian which train we are supposed to board at the Venice railway station is far from useless. Indeed, it is better to do that than to remain uncertain and silent and end up back in Budapest rather than in Milan.
-
When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.
-
Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.
