Thor Heyerdahl Quotes

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

Thor Heyerdahl

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: explorer
  • Nationality: norwegian
  • Birth: October 6, 1914 - April 18, 2002

Topics

NatureFutureAloneTimeBelieve

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

Joe Namath

FootballSayingSpeakTalkingTongue

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

Stanley Tucci

WritingStartWake UpThreeWrite

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

Sidney Poitier

LifeMePureDeterminedRandomness

I bring in the record label who distributes the music.

Troy Carter

MusicBringWhoLabelRecord

You're in front of an audience and thinking off the top of your head - you're going to say things that offend people sometimes. Sometimes I'll be driving home, and I'll be like, 'Oh, crap, I shouldn't have said that.'

Ross Mathews

HomePeopleThinkingDrivingYou

It is nerve-wracking watching my kids' games.

Michael Jordan

GamesWatchingKids

My wife was pregnant while we were promoting 'Ant-Man,' and that was very exciting, to see, like, action figures of myself, as we're getting the nursery ready.

Corey Stoll

MyselfWifeActionReadySeeLike

I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.

Clive Thompson

PeopleThinkConnectionsInternet

I think the key to writing hit songs is simplicity.

Bonnie McKee

SimplicityWritingThinkKeySongs

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.

Peter Ackroyd

PastPeopleBelieveYouHousePlace

I have no notion of a perfect woman, as I feel if I fall in love, it can be with a wrong person also.

Shaheer Sheikh

LoveWomanFeelFallPerfectPerson

My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture.

Tom Bissell

WorkThinkPageWantDNAWrite

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