Scandinavians Quotes

• Firstly, there no such person as Death.
  Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians.
  Third, he doesn't exist either.

  Neil Gaiman

  Death, Horse, White

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• My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Influence, Crime

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• Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

  Camilla Lackberg

  Generations, Fiction, World

  "Camilla Läckberg's top 10 Swedish crime novels" by Camilla Läckberg, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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• Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

  Jo Nesbo

  Crime Novels, Names, Fiction

  "Jo Nesbø: 'If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he'd have written a thriller'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2012.

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• They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

  Christian Lacroix

  Design, Furniture, Scandinavia

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• Naturally I never had the intention to offend or alienate Slavs. ... What makes me different from the 'nazis' are basically three things; unlike them I am not socialistic (not even on a national level), I am not materialistic and I believe in (the ancient Scandinavian!) democracy.

  Varg Vikernes

  Believe, Democracy, Different

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• Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.

  Rene Redzepi

  Cuisine, Danish, Pastries

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We're not troubled at all, but I think...Well, we're Scandinavians! We're Vikings and we have a lot of blackness in our souls.

  Nina Persson

  Thinking, Soul, Vikings

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• Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Nature, Rain

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.108, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they?

  Kingsley Amis

  People, Might, Sparkle

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• We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of the Scandinavian, Australasian, or North American countries.

  Anthony Crosland

  Country, Class, Stronger

  "The Future of Socialism". Book by Anthony Crosland, 1956.

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• You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

  Chris Abani

  Darkness, Style, Literature

  Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 22, 2014.

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• Fifteen hundred years is ample time in which to lose mutual comprehension. Iceland was colonized by the Norwegians at the end of the ninth century AD. Today's Icelanders, with considerable effort, can understand people from the Scandinavian peninsula, but the Scandinavians hardly understand the Icelanders. A thousand years is the minimum time span for a language to change so much that it becomes incomprehensible.

  Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

  Years, Iceland, People

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• I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language. In that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians. To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.

  Max Muller

  Mean, Eye, Hair

  "Biographies of Words and the Home of the Aryas". Book by Max Müller, 1888.

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• As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, one way or another, most Christian denominations have managed to reconcile belief in God with belief in the mechanisms of natural selection. A French or German or Scandinavian politician who called for students to entertain as a reasonable deduction from existing evidence the proposition that Earth is at most 10,000 years old would be bundled off to a mental hospital.

  Katha Pollitt

  Christian, Country, Teaching

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• You forget, when you're in the Scandinavian countries, you forget they don't speak English first and they speak better than I do.

  Doug Stanhope

  Country, Speak English, Firsts

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• I'm a Scandinavian Midwest girl who doesn't always know what's going on in herself emotionally, which is why I make music in order to figure it out.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Girl, Order, Midwest

  Source: thequietus.com

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• No doubt there is a Scandinavian wave. I guess everybody is just surfing their wave until it breaks and hoping it won't be too soon.

  Tobias Lindholm

  Surfing, Doubt, Wave

  Source: collider.com

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• Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of a spirit rising to the sky is no more real than a medieval Scandinavian fairytales!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Sky, Soul

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• But if I were asked to pick one constant, one quality that seems dependable, immutable, endlessly available, I'd say that it was intensity. For nothing in Sicily seems withheld, done half way, restrained or suppressed. There's nothing to correspond to say, the ironic, the cerebral remove at which a Frenchman might consider an idea or a question, or the Scandinavian distrust of the sloppy, emotive response.

  Francine Prose

  Ideas, Ironic, Quality

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• I like living in Vancouver .It's more a matter of being a Vancouver loyalist. Harking back to what I said about growing up with the inherent violence in the southern U.S., I'm deeply enamoured of, and entirely used to living in a society with gun laws akin to those of a Scandinavian social democracy .It's a good thing.

  William Gibson

  Growing Up, Gun, Law

  Source: craphound.com

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• There were tons of bronzed Scandinavian types at the Sorbonne. Marvellously blond and healthy and shining white teeth. Funny thing though, because someone told me that if you actually go to Scandinavia none of the people who actually live there look like that. It's just a front they put up when they're abroad.

  Charlotte Bingham

  Europe, Funny Things, White

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• The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of a Scandinavian accent, maybe with a Swedish accent and an old way of speaking.

  Katheryn Winnick

  Way, Vikings, Accents

  "Interview: Katheryn Winnick discusses her ‘Vikings’ shield maiden". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. March 2, 2013.

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• The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages, German, Scandinavian languages.

  Amos Oz

  Latin, Language, Nordic

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.

  Herman Gorter

  Country, Two, France

  "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin" by Herman Gorter, www.marxists.org. 1920.

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