653 quotes by norwegian authors for you to enjoy

For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really happy when I'm waiting for a plane and the message comes that it's three hours late. Great, I'll get to write! Jo Nesbo

The myth about me as a footballer has grown: I am now the lost Maradona of Norway. Jo Nesbo

Me Myth Lost About Footballer Am Norway Grown Now

I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed. Jo Nesbo

Life You Doctor Water Think Sleeping Would Recommended Some Something Bubbles Never Couple Comfortable Always Bed Hear Years Intelligent Intelligent Life Middle Happening Night

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures. Jo Nesbo

History You Culture Experience Reading Hidden Visiting Countries Leave Go Getting The History Of Place Then Start Treasures

I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting. Jo Nesbo

Character You Crime Will Matters Way Plot Characters Besides Entertainer Solved Boring Know Make Got Been End Committed Just Being Stories Story Interesting Why

I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat. Jon Johansen

Internet Relay Only Chat Had Identity Any Them Used

So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available. Jon Johansen

Introduce Had New Been Pirating Anything Available

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it. Jon Johansen

Service No Intention Bother Intention Then Using Basically

I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff. Jon Johansen

Work Job Software Took Jobs Would Stuff Most Because End Get Hands Norway Wanted Products Users Niche Server

Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal. Jon Johansen

Legal Law Something Prevent Consumers Doing Use Companies

I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life. Jon Johansen

Life Ten Bought Whole

As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability. Jonas Gahr Store

Change Natural Political Changes Minister Instability New Learnt How Climate Foreign Climate Change Sources Provoked Norway Creating

I experienced how foreign aid for large-scale vaccination projects helps to save the life of children and thus give a real input to growth and to escaping poverty. Jonas Gahr Store

Life Poverty Foreign Aid Aid Projects Input Give Thus How Foreign Real Escaping Children Experienced Helps Large-Scale Growth Vaccination Save

As a foreign minister, I have to respect the authority to look after the best interest of the child is, as always, in my country like in India, with the parents and the family. But in extreme cases, the situation is open for the child protection authority to intervene. Jonas Gahr Store

Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition. Jonas Gahr Store

My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children. Jonas Gahr Store

I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language. But, yes, it is a challenge. And democracy and democratic debate has to be open to take that debate openly and not push questions aside. Jonas Gahr Store

Education Democracy Learning People Debate Language Challenge Think Relatively Take Push Open Taking Openly Democratic Well Integration Questions Yes Going Norway Aside Working Standards

This paradigm of the war on terror, connecting all kinds of armed resistance around the globe in one huge ideological framework, as a new ideology at a stage in history when most of the major ideologies are gone, does not reflect the facts on the ground. Jonas Gahr Store

War History Ideology Reflect Stage Gone Framework Paradigm Kinds Facts New Major Armed Most Globe Ideological Ideologies Around Terror Does Huge Ground Connecting Resistance

Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic. Jonas Gahr Store

Good Nature Problem Own Everything Logic Impact Diverse No Problem Throughout Absorb Observed Ecosystems React Linked Human Activities Coherence

According to the comprehensive Global Burden of Disease project, the leading risk factors for ill health and premature death are linked to lifestyle, what we eat and drink and how much we exercise. Disease prevention does not occur in the hospital. We need the whole of society to be involved. Jonas Gahr Store

Death Health Burden Society Project Eat Comprehensive Risk Drink Prevention Factors Hospital Lifestyle Leading Global Involved Exercise Does How Occur How Much According Linked Disease Much Premature Ill Whole Need

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too. Jostein Gaarder

Good Think Too About Write She Editor Friend Good Friend

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