Norwegian Quotes
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Norwegian Quotes & Sayings
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It almost hurt to look at that far-off sky.
— Haruki Murakami
I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.
— Alexander Hanson
You'd yell at the top of your lungs, but nobody would hear you, and you couldn't expect anyone to find you.
— Haruki Murakami
Everybody feels like that to some extent," I said. "They're trying to express themselves and it bothers them when they can't get it right.
— Haruki Murakami
Even a rat will choose the least painful route if you shock him enough
— Haruki Murakami
I want to go away, oh so far, far away.
— Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko
— Haruki Murakami
Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians.
— Carl I. Hagen
Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.
— Stellan Skarsgard
I wonder what ants do on rainy days?
— Haruki Murakami
Don't tell the Scandinavians I said this, but "Swedish," "Norwegian," and "Danish" are all really one "language,
— John McWhorter
My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.
— Grete Waitz
Norbert the Norwegian Ridgeback
— J.K. Rowling
ONE WORDOne 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
She and I had needed each other more than either of us knew.
— Haruki Murakami
If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for a Norwegian writer.
— Per Petterson
Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another pat of me into that world.
— Haruki Murakami
Such perfect little circles are impossible to maintain.
— Haruki Murakami
But your problems are not going to continue for the rest of your life
— Haruki Murakami
There was much about him that was fine and beautiful, but he could never find the confidence he needed.
— Haruki Murakami
Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.
— Liv Ullmann
I think of you now mare than ever. It's raining today.
— Haruki Murakami
I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.
— Tadanobu Asano
I loved Midori. And I had probably known as much for a while. I had just been avoiding the conclusion for a very long time.
— Haruki Murakami
A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.
— Knut Hamsun
I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, and they probably couldn't understand me, either.
— Haruki Murakami
Colm Feore. Newspaper column, Norwegian water. Column of steel, column of virtue, just for God's sake, Colm.
— Colm Feore
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
As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
— Fritz Sauckel
The Sushi Warehouse in Roissy 2E offered an exceptional range of Norwegian mineral waters.
— Michel Houellebecq
Not everybody is looking for a boyfriend with a sports car.
— Haruki Murakami
Like my hairstyle?" she asked."It's great."
"How great?"
"Great enough to knock down all the trees in all the forests of the world. — Haruki Murakami
It was that kind of kiss. But as with all kisses, it was not without a certain element of danger
— Haruki Murakami
It is typically Norwegian to be good
— Kjell Magne Bondevik
If you hurt her any more than you already have, the wound could be too deep to fix.
— Haruki Murakami
I could never get excited about games you play with other people. I can't get into them. I lose interest.
— Haruki Murakami
What more could you want if you were that smart and that beautiful?
— Haruki Murakami
It was as hard to be a Norwegian in 1881 as it was to be an American in 1770. Perhaps even harder, as Norway was far from a young nation.
— Chris Nicolaisen
I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me.
— John Lennon
I was at that age, that time of life when every sight, every feeling, every thought came back, like a boomerang, to me. And worse, I was in love.
— Haruki Murakami
Girls have periods and boys jerk off. Everybody.
— Haruki Murakami
No, it's not sick. I wish I could be the one to hold you, though, I said. So hold me. Now. Right here. — Haruki Murakami
The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation,
— Jens Stoltenberg
That one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities
— Haruki Murakami
No matter what we said, people would believe what they wanted to believe. The more we struggled, the more vulnerable we'd be.
— Haruki Murakami
How's Norbert doin'?"Norbert?" Charlie laughed. "The Norwegian Ridgeback? We call her Norberta now."
Wha - Norbert's a girl? — J.K. Rowling
Adrijana speaks Norwegian with an upper-class, west-end accent.
— Derek B. Miller
Count your blessings
— Haruki Murakami
If you need me, use me. Don't you see?
— Haruki Murakami
The great Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose once said, liberally translated, the only things worth writing about are love and murder.
— Henning Mankell
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
— Peter Agre
Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
— Jose Manuel Barroso
Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.
— Haruki Murakami
What had happened to the body I held in my arms that night last spring?
— Haruki Murakami
Thinking of all I had lost in the course of my life: times gone for ever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again.
— Haruki Murakami
Despite your best effort, people are going to hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.
— Haruki Murakami
So after he died, I didn't know how to relate to other people. I didn't know what it means to love another person.
— Haruki Murakami
What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.
— Haruki Murakami
Minneapolis was small, somnolent, and full of Swedish and Norwegian farmers as charming as cornstalks.
— Erik Larson
I have always loved Naoko, and I still loved her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me.
— Haruki Murakami
It's hard not being able to see you, but my life in Tokyo would be a lot worse if it weren't for you.
— Haruki Murakami
I'm Norwegian and our ghosts don't care about nookie, just raiding, blood feuds, and herring recipes.
— Ani Gonzalez
I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.
— Siri Hustvedt
I'll never forget you," I said. "I could never forget you.
— Haruki Murakami