"Norwegians" Quotes . Top 30 Short Quotes About "Norwegians"

"And then, with a European director and Norwegian actors speaking in Norwegian, it was going to be very interesting. So, whatever initial trepidation or fear I may have had was alleviated by those factors. I just said, "This is something to get on board with.""

--- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

#Norwegians #Initials #Said

"The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?"

--- Al Gore

#Thinking #Norwegians #Knocking

"I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way."

--- Alexander Hanson

#Norwegians #Way #Secret

"Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them ... gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians -- upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall."

--- Winston Churchill

#Norwegians #Soul #Race

"In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying "the script" this and "the script" that, when they've never read the script any more than they've read the latest report on Norwegian herring landings."

--- William Monahan

#People #Norwegians #Herring

"The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience."

--- Bill Bryson

#Norwegians #Said #Coma

"For instance, against the tremendous resistance of Hitler and Kaltenbrunner, and at first Himmler too, I managed to save nine thousand Norwegians and Danes, whom I had released from concentration camps."

--- Walter Schellenberg

#Norwegians #Himmler #Nine

"Being attacked by the press is not something I see as a problem, but rather a confirmation that I am on the right track. It is even better when they ignore me completely, like the Norwegian press does; that means they are really afraid."

--- Varg Vikernes

#Mean #Ignore Me #Right Track

"I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful."

--- Brie Larson

#Norwegians #Beautiful #Listening

"It is also a fact that people who are isolated and alienated in their neighborhoods as a result of the large number of neighbors who do not speak Norwegian, who do not follow the Norwegian customs, norms and way of life, could have psychosomatic disorders that can lead to both sickness leave and need for medical help."

--- Carl I. Hagen

#People #Norwegians #Neighbor

"Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians."

--- Carl I. Hagen

#Norwegians #Spain #Spaniards

"I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways."

--- Thomas Carlyle

#Thinking #Norwegians #Europe

"Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents."

--- Christopher Heyerdahl

#Norwegians #Ears #Lifetime

"Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think."

--- Christopher Heyerdahl

#Thinking #Norwegians #Burden

"Colm Feore. Newspaper column, Norwegian water. Column of steel, column of virtue, just for God's sake, Colm."

--- Colm Feore

#Newspapers #Norwegians #Water

"Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there."

--- Stellan Skarsgard

#Norwegians #Educated #Well Educated

"Directors are always changing things at the last minute. Actors will do a scene, and the director will say, ‘Okay, that was perfect, but this time, Bob, instead of saying “What’s for dinner?” you say, “Wait a minute! Benzene is actually a hydrocarbon!” And say it with a Norwegian accent. Also, we think maybe your character should have no arms."

--- Dave Barry

#Thinking #Scene #Lasts

"My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian."

--- David Johansen

#Norwegians #New York #Mother

"A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others."

--- David Mamet

#People #Chekhov #Norwegians

"People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education."

--- David Soul

#Norwegians #People #Education

"The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills."

--- Sarah Palin

#Norwegians #Cleaning #Cleaning Up

"What the federal government should have done is accept the assistance of foreign countries, of entrepreneurial Americans who have had solution that they wanted presented ... The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills."

--- Sarah Palin

#Foreign Countries #Norwegians #Cleaning

"We're Norwegians. You know, the Vikings. My deadlift was 310 pounds. I mean, I was very, very strong - and I didn't take steroids. I did it all on my own."

--- Eleanor Mondale

#Mean #Norwegians #Pounds

"My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it."

--- Roald Dahl

#Norwegians #Oslo #Arms

"Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English."

--- Roald Dahl

#Norwegians #Father #Perfect

"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe."

--- Roald Dahl

#Norwegians #Difficult #Young

"One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the fairies. Norwegian-Americans the nisser, Greek-Americans the vrykólakas, but only in relation to events remembered in the Old Country. When I once asked why such demons are not seen in America, my informants giggled confusedly and said, 'They're scared to pass the ocean, it's too far,' pointing out that Christ and the apostles never came to American."

--- Richard Mercer Dorson

#Norwegians #Pointing #Said

"I'm 100% Norwegian. Three generations removed and all continuous inbreeding of Norwegian of Minnesota and Iowa, so I traveled to Norway before."

--- Eric Christian Olsen

#Norwegians #Inbreeding #Generations

"In Norway, we have a community of people who prefer to use a version of Norwegian that looks very much like lutefisk: Dug up remains from the garbage heap of history and dressed up to look like a tradition."

--- Erik Naggum

#People #Norwegians #Versions

"Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic."

--- Ranulph Fiennes

#Norwegians #Winter #Achieve

30 "Norwegians" Quotes