Norway Quotes

• I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes.

  Eva Green

  Cake, Want, Ends

  "Eva Green: 'Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes'". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2010.

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• Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it

  Barack Obama

  Country, World, Right Now

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• We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Way, Compromise

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• I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.

  Ike Turner

  Confidence, Tired, Fighting

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• Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.

  Erik Naggum

  Fighting, Rights, Europe

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• I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

  Adolf Galland

  Russia, France, Fighter

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• I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.

  Grete Waitz

  Cancer, Doctors, Survivor

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• We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.

  Jens Stoltenberg

  Europe, Income, High Standards

  "At the Top: An interview with Jens Stoltenberg". Interview in Torgrim Eggen, 2001.

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• I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant.

  Grete Waitz

  Fitness, Cancer, Survivor

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• I remember my second game for England - we lost 2-0 to Norway, I was subbed and didn't do myself justice and I thought that was the end of my England career.

  Teddy Sheringham

  Games, Careers, Justice

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• Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

  Herman Melville

  Flames, Whales, Giving

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.156

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• Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.

  Annie Dillard

  Summer, New York, Writing

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books

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• Denmark (also called Norway) is best known as the original home of the prune Danish as well as the Vikings, who wore hats with horns sticking out of them, and for a very good reason: they were insane.

  Dave Barry

  Home, Insane, Denmark

  "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.

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• I am utterly in love with my son and my boyfriend and live in the most magical place on Earth. I've been in Norway for ten months now and I have loved every minute of it.

  Rebecca Loos

  Son, My Boyfriend, Earth

  "Rebecca Loos says being a new mum is better than having affairs with footballers" by Jody Thompson, www.mirror.co.uk. February 23, 2010.

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• We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway.

  Erik Naggum

  Mom, Oil, Pops

  "Upper limits of CL". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. June 20, 2002.

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• Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway.

  Janet Fitch

  Lakes, Jewels, Hatred

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.

  Emily Dickinson

  Years, November, November Poems

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.260, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.

  A. S. Byatt

  Dream, Song, Morning

  FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011

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• I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.

  Jon Lech Johansen

  Jobs, Hands, Stuff

  "DVD Jon lands dream job stateside" by Annalee Newitz, www.wired.com. October 18, 2005.

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• My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Player, Being The Best, Used

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• For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.

  Jo Nesbo

  Country, Home, Years

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• How can the United States be competitive globally if higher education is unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden have no tuition for college. Other countries have low tuition. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Instead of spending endless amounts on the military, we need to invest in our young people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Education, Country, Military

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• There's no-one up there in Northern Norway, food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.

  David Hockney

  Beautiful, Eye, Looks

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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• Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.

  Kshama Sawant

  Struggle, Past, College

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!

  Samuel Johnson

  Noble, Lapland, England

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 425 (6 July 1763)

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