Selma Lagerlof Quotes

I thought of my father and felt a deep sorrow that he should no longer be alive, and that I could not go to him and tell him that I had been awarded the Nobel Prize. I knew that no one would have been happier than he to hear this.

Selma Lagerlof

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: November 20, 1858 - March 16, 1940

Topics

FatherDeepThoughtAliveGoSorrow

Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily.

Joe Henderson

WorkDailyTimeFunMeSpeed

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

Robert Kiyosaki

PeopleMeMayInvestRiskyMost

There's not a doubt in my mind that you will see a spate of municipal-bond defaults.

Meredith Whitney

MindDoubtYouWillSee

A live feeder is somebody who is trying to eat everybody in the room.

Metta World Peace

LiveTryingEatRoomSomebodyWho

We've got to get things done. We've got an economy that is stabilized, but not moving ahead.

Amy Klobuchar

MovingDoneAheadEconomyThings

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

LuckBadBornBad LuckWherePiece

When I came back from filming 'Abduction', I told my agent: I'm staying in London now. If it takes doing children's theater from the back of a van in Kilburn, that's OK. I need to be with my family. My job is to keep the family together and provide for them.

Jason Isaacs

FamilyChildrenTogetherJobDoing

My mom is a really good cook. We used to make dumplings together.

Jason Wu

GoodTogetherMomUsedCookMake

For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.

Chaz Bono

FearMeEyeOvercomeNeverHard

If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.

Bryan Fuller

HomeCookingMeYouGoWill

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

Alice Walker

TimeUglyMeThoughtLongLong Time

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

William Gurnall

GodHellDrawingEarthHandLine

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