Iceland Quotes

• Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

  W. H. Auden

  People, Passionate, Interest

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• People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

  Bjork

  People, Asking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And theres this strange thing: youre never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.

  Hannah Kent

  Beautiful, Mountain, Horizon

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• Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.

  Russell Crowe

  Amazing Places, Film, Fascinating

  "Russell Crowe Talks Spending Time in the Rain, Researching Biblical History, Working in Iceland, and More on the Set of NOAH". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 6, 2014.

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• Ive walked a lot in the mountains in Iceland. And as you come to a new valley, as you come to a new landscape, you have a certain view. If you stand still, the landscape doesnt necessarily tell you how big it is. It doesnt really tell you what youre looking at. The moment you start to move the mountain starts to move.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Moving, Views, Mountain

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• Iceland, I'm in love with that country, the people are incredible.

  Kit Harington

  Country, People, Incredibles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

  Damien Rice

  Littles, Path, More Time

  "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.

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• The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Clouds, Eruption, Earth

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• When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.

  Bjork

  Teenager, Rocks, People

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• Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.

  Don Young

  Ice, Scotland, Agriculture

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• There's a reason why Jules Verne chose the place where the glacier was, where we start to descend into the center of the earth. That area specifically has magical powers and people come to this place from all over the world. I actually think that's true of all Iceland. I think it's so special, apart from the water and air being so clean.

  Anita Briem

  Thinking, Air, People

  "Clay Enos: The Watchmen Portrait Book Interview". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. March 16, 2009.

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• I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.

  Bjork

  Firsts, England, Coincidence

  "Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.

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• I really like Iceland. One of the nicest things about it is that I hardly ever had to reach for my credit card. There's practically nothing there to go shopping for.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Shopping, Cards, Credit

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• Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.

  Philip Larkin

  Hang Over, Ifs

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• Iceland sets a world-record. The United Nations asked people from all over the world a series of questions. Iceland stuck out on one thing. When we were asked what do we believe, 90% said, 'ourselves'. I think I'm in that group. If I get into trouble, there's no God or Allah to sort me out. I have to do it myself.

  Bjork

  God, Believe, Thinking

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• If I wasn't bound to Brooklyn, due to my own personal reasons like taking care of my mother and the fact that this is where the band is based, I would probably move to Iceland.

  Peter Steele

  Mother, Moving, Band

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• I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here.

  Michael Bruce

  Writing, Play, Track

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• I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

  Cornelia Funke

  Dog, Horse, Pigs

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• Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

  Keith Henson

  Generations, France, Vikings

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• Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Play, Summertime

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• Iceland is capitalist social democratic, rather like the Nordic countries generally. The capital had a mayor who is an anarchist, but the city has been nothing like that. In fact a few years ago it was super-neoliberal, which led to the crash.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Years, Cities

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• After a few days [in Iceland] I tried to take a photograph. But with my attempt to distinguish the first shot, the place disappeared on me.... I hadn't been in Iceland long enough to simply be there.

  Roni Horn

  Long, Firsts, Enough

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• What do they do in these [private] clubs, anyway? Sit around saying things like 'Thank God I'm here. No Jews! What fun! This is living, huh? Look! No Jews! I don't know when I've had a better time. And no women! Just men! And no blacks! Just whites! White men! White men who are not Jewish! It doesn't get any better than this.' To some people, apparently, this is a perfect description of injustice. To me, this is a perfect description of a gay bar in Iceland.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Fun, Gay, Men

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• Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves better.

  Halldór Laxness

  Country, Gratitude, Grateful

  Halldór Laxness (2003). “Iceland's Bell”, Vintage

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• People in Iceland are complete chickens in the cold. You think, "Oh, you must not be cold because you're from Iceland," but we're never in the cold.

  Tomas Lemarquis

  Thinking, People, Cold

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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