Swedish Quotes - Page 4

• I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventures in story, themes and structure instead.

  Karin Tidbeck

  Writing, Adventure, Class

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Swedish meatballs are to die for.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Meatballs, Dies

  Source: www.foxnews.com

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Leave the eggs to bathe for 15 minutes in the hot water like a sexy Swedish chick in a natural mineral sauna.

  Coolio

  Sexy, Food, Eggs

  Coolio (2009). “Cookin' with Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1 Star Price”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

  Camilla Lackberg

  Thinking, Fiction, Pace

  "Sweden’s Population: 9 Million. Camilla Lackberg’s Swedish Book Sales: 3 Million. Camilla Who?". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.

  Camilla Lackberg

  School, Used, Taxes

  "Sweden’s Population: 9 Million. Camilla Lackberg’s Swedish Book Sales: 3 Million. Camilla Who?". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had one actress who trained with me and took six Spin classes a week. And all she ate was lettuce and Swedish Fish. When the press asked her how she'd transformed' her body, she said, Oh, I do yoga and hike with my puppy.' That made me laugh. Don't lie about how much you work out, because other women are going to think, I walk my dog, why don't I look like that?

  Gunnar Peterson

  Dog, Lying, Yoga

  "Scary Celeb Diet Tricks No Woman Should Try!" by Shaun Dreisbach, www.glamour.com. February 3, 2008.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew up with that, kind of, Swedish tone or harmony.

  Gustav Ejstes

  Tunes, Connections, Tone

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.

  Gustav Ejstes

  Play, Achievement, Way

  "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Art, Clever, Phones

  4 Copy quote

• He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.

  Cassandra Clare

  Seductive, Fur, Phrases

  Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson (2013). “The Runaway Queen”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people from one hour to the next decide that this or that company is worth so many billions, more or less. It doesn't have a thing to do with reality or with the Swedish economy.

  Steig Larsson

  Reality, People, Different

  4 Copy quote

• His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.

  Charles XII of Sweden

  Kings, Writing, Majesty

  41 Copy quote

• John Guidetti is a typical English striker. Even though he is Swedish

  Gareth Barry

  Typical, Strikers

  4 Copy quote

• The perspective that many today are beginning to see as fully realistic is that democracy in our country, and in our part of the world, will suffer the same fate as the Swedish monarchy did before. The democracy is beeing emptied of all power political content at the same time as the forms remain, treated with reverence and preservasion.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Country, Fate, Perspective

  4 Copy quote

• I had just put the casket in the hearse and was watching it drive away, when a beautiful blond woman comes up and embraces me. I said to her, 'You have a drink on you? You have a car?' She said, 'Daddy, it's me — Tatum!' I was just trying to be funny with a strange Swedish woman, and it's my daughter. It's so sick.

  Ryan O'Neal

  Beautiful, Daughter, Daddy

  "Ryan Tried to Get Tatum to Date 'im". Article by Jeane MacIntosh, nypost.com. August 3, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

  Hans Rosling

  Motivation, Inspiration, World

  40 Copy quote

• People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.

  Steven Zaillian

  People, Watches, Cinema

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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

  Eva Green

  Blood, Borders, Citizens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth rate. America can help. This is a perfect opportunity to name Jesse Jackson ambassador to Sweden.

  Argus Hamilton

  Country, Sex, Fall

  6 Copy quote

• I'm a big fan of TIËSTO, and SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.

  Joe Jonas

  House, Mafia, Fans

  "Joe Jonas wants to work with Swedish House Mafia" by Dean Piper, www.mirror.co.uk. August 28, 2011.

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ksubi' - the Australian jean brand, they're one of my favourite brands of just clothes and stuff, and the Swedish brand 'Acne', but other than that, not at this point in time designing. I wouldn't mind collab'n with those guys though.

  ASAP Rocky

  Clothes, Design, Guy

  "Interview: A$AP Rocky On His Debut Album 'Long.live.A$AP' And Upcoming NZ Show". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. June 12, 2013.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything about my current work right now, because the current work that my group is focusing on is actually both the time resolve electrons and possibly x-rays to be able to get the architecture of these molecules, the molecular structures themselves, of very complex biological systems. That's the ultimate goal.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Goal, Rays, Groups

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and he said well that was well hope I'm not disturbing you but I am the Secretary General of the Swedish Academy. Of course you can imagine I was frozen in time when he said that but then he made a very famous statement, something to the effect that this is the last 20 minutes of peace of your life.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  Lasts, Six, Twenties

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency." —George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.

  George W. Bush

  Running, June, Cameras

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

  17 Copy quote

  Show source