Olaf Quotes

• The cold never bothered me anyway.

  Idina Menzel

  Frozen, Cold, Bothered

  Song: Let It Go

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• I'm the luckiest man alive, this is the best day of my life.

  George Strait

  Inspirational, Groundhog Day, Men

  Song: The Best Day Of My Life

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• Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Barren

  Olaf Stapledon (2015). “Star Maker”, p.196, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Missionary, Barbarians, Strange

  1930 Last and First Men, ch.3.

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• Myriads of individuals, each one unique, live out their lives in rapt intercourse with one another, contribute their heart's pulses to the universal music, and presently vanish, giving place to others. All this age-long sequence of private living, which is the actual tissue of humanity's flesh, I cannot describe. I can only trace, as it were, the disembodied form of its growth.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Heart, Unique, Long

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, p.211, Courier Corporation

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• I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and darkness. And on the skin of that little grain all the swarms of men, generation by generation, had lived in labour and blindness, with intermittent joy and intermittent lucidity of spirit. And all their history, with its folk-wanderings, its empires, its philosophies, its proud sciences, its social revolutions, its increasing hunger for community, was but a flicker in one day of the lives of the stars.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Stars, Philosophy, Men

  Olaf Stapledon (1975). “To the End of Time”, Macmillan Reference USA

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• The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Snow, Void, Flakes

  Olaf Stapledon (2015). “Star Maker”, p.10, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Angel, Self, World

  "Star Maker" by Olaf Stapledon, Dover Books, (p. 15), 1930.

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• Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?

  Olaf Stapledon

  Time, Gone, Frozen

  Olaf Stapledon (2013). “Odd John and Sirius”, p.244, Courier Corporation

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• It is better to be destroyed than to triumph in slaying the spirit... We die praising the universe in which at least such an achievement as ours can be.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Achievement, Triumph, Spirit

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, p.363, Courier Corporation

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• The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Light, Expansion, Cosmos

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation

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• In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Animal, Humanity, Poison

  Olaf Stapledon (1972). “Last and first men, and Last men in London”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Individuals of the earlier species had suffered from an almost insurmountable spiritual isolation from one another. Not even lovers, and scarcely even the geniuses with special insight into personality, ever had anything like accurate vision of one another... The most precious gift that a lover could bring to the beloved was not virginity but sexual experience. The union, it was felt, was the more pregnant the more each party could contribute from previous sexual and spiritual intimacy with others.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Spiritual, Party, Personality

  "Last and First Men" by Olaf Stapledon, Dover Books, (pp. 102, 112), 1930.

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• trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Blood, Done, World

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• I like [Count] Olaf's wardrobe, because the whole thing seems like it should be a period piece in many ways, and yet the date is non-specific. So I would wear cloaks and jackets, but also turtlenecks. I was a little beatnik, and kind of hipster in that way.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Hipster, Littles, Way

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• Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sinister

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 16-19”, p.682, Penguin

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• Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.

  Daniel Handler

  Running, Secret, Trying

  "The End". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• I did enjoy singing the song, called "The Count", which is Count Olaf's big song that he sings to the kids when they first arrive with his henchpeople. He wrote it himself, and he thinks he's really, really talented, and it's a terrible song. So we had to learn intentionally bad choreography... We did these almost Lady Gaga-ish kind of movements, which were just awful, but that made me laugh

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Song, Kids, Thinking

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• The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject is nothing less than the diagnosis and cure of the human malady. We follow twelve generations of New York City's Steenwycks family through their forays into phrenology, mesmerism, radium therapy and similar misadventures, a historically rich narrative that Menger-Anderson delivers in striking, elegant prose and with a sure eye for detail. This is a remarkable debut by a writer to watch.

  Ben Fountain

  New York, Eye, Cities

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• The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest.

  Terry Pratchett

  Writing, Ankh, Reign

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

  Daniel Handler

  Animal, Sound, Torn Apart

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• Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

  Peter Agre

  Dad, College, Oxford

  "Nobel Laureate Peter Agre: From Aquaporins to Lutefisk". Interview with Steve Mirsky, www.scientificamerican.com. July 20, 2011.

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• Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to Olaf's evil in loco parentis ways.

  Daniel Handler

  Evil, House, Way

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• The makeup [for Count Olaf] took about two and a half hours every morning. The meditation was another hour and a half. I would eat a big breakfast - that was probably 45 minutes. And then it was lunch.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Morning, Makeup, Two

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• Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said. Not with you around," Violet agreed. I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.

  Daniel Handler

  World, Safe, Violet

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