1010 quotes by danish authors for you to enjoy

Verona is a very beautiful city, but Siena just never ceases to fascinate me. Anne Fortier

Beautiful Me City Never Beautiful City Ceases Very Just Fascinate

A novel is, hopefully, the starting point of a conversation, one in which the author engages readers and asks that they see things from a different point of view than they might otherwise. Anne Fortier

Conversation Otherwise Hopefully See Point Point Of View Readers Than Author Different Which Might Ask View Novel Things Starting Starting Point

While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on each other and eventually married in 2002. Anne Fortier

Relationship Challenges Met Other Despite Married Remained Jonathan Canadian Oxford While Who Each Keen Eventually

The primary factor is proportions. Arne Jacobsen

Design Factor Proportions Primary

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. Arne Jacobsen

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio. Arne Jacobsen

Philosophy Favourite Studio Sitting Thing

That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another. Arne Jacobsen

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. Arne Jacobsen

Life Architecture Become Else Everything Everything Else Entire Entire Life Consume Tends

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. Arne Jacobsen

Architecture Long See Properly Excluded Term Buildings Any Done Should

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out. Arne Jacobsen

Quality Enthusiasm Sense Other Otherwise Everything Out Threw Thrown Understand Hand Antique Shop Declined Grandma

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it. Arne Jacobsen

Buy People Care Really Who Chair Designed

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training. Arne Jacobsen

You Training School Think Has-Been Besides Fine Some Both Through Comradeship Fairly Because Been Boarding Boarding School Then Hard Resistance

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago. Arne Jacobsen

Home You Later Thousands Thousands Of Years Emerge Invented Abroad Inspiration Come House Well Course None Years Years Ago Sink Impressions Done May Us Asked Fortunately Many Found

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one. Arne Jacobsen

First Other Right One Solution Solutions Fact Feel Until Although Proves Often In Fact Confronted Certain Initial Right

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver. Arne Jacobsen

Small Things Quality Sense Gone Way Neighbour Status Silver Small Steel Acceptable Improved Use Uses Even Things Symbol

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions. Arne Jacobsen

Best Solutions Task Artistic Choose

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change. Arne Jacobsen

The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or subordinate systems, which are easy to recognize anatomically, and the functions of which are on the whole quite distinct. August Krogh

Man Made Animals Considered Distinct System Recognize Systems Easy Small Up Subordinate Quite Which Organs Whole Functions Number

The affinity of blood or pure haemoglobins for oxygen is a complex phenomenon, depending upon a number of conditions, the most important of which are temperature and hydrogen ion concentration. August Krogh

Pure Important Complex Temperature Hydrogen Concentration Most Conditions Blood Affinity Depending Oxygen The Most Important Which Number Phenomenon

It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain insects and birds during flight, and to obtain information similar to that obtained on man during work on a bicycle ergometer or a treadmill. August Krogh

Work Man Technically Insects Bicycle Doubt Swimming Birds Respiration Possible Constant No Doubt Rate Similar Study Obtain Obtained Metabolism Fishes Information Certain Flight Treadmill

In the giraffe with a total height of 5 m., the heart is at a height of about 2.5 m., and it would be extremely interesting to know just how the giraffe avoids the development of filtration oedema in its long legs. August Krogh

Heart Long Extremely Would Would-Be Total Giraffe About Development Know How Just Legs Interesting Height

Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate. August Krogh

Constant Rate Oxygen Use Muscles

Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the system of valves makes of the veins of every muscle a very effective pump, capable of maintaining a low pressure in the muscle capillaries. August Krogh

Pressure Every Pump System More More Or Less Veins Maintaining Since Makes Effective Very Low Capable Regularly Less Muscle Muscular

In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point. August Krogh

Communication Made Seen Numerous Final Once Though Object Direct Only Small Point Could Observations Observers Vein Between Combination Come Conclusion Laboratory Which Might Two

Quotes by danish authors