Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Quotes

When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: danish
  • Birth: January 16, 1982

Topics

DayPresentKidSweetsLittleUsed

I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting.

Jennifer Egan

LifeWorkMenMeWritingMy Life

I believe God has a future for ethnic Israel.

John Piper

FutureGodBelieveI BelieveIsrael

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.

Stephane Hessel

PeopleStrongWishYouBecomeOwn

Kids don't like what they don't understand, and judo was always my social outlet. I always felt really socially awkward, and I couldn't speak very well when I was younger. When I was doing judo, it was something that I could understand and someplace where I felt that I belonged and fit in.

Ronda Rousey

SpeakDoingUnderstandAwkwardWell

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

Lord Byron

MenTrueCheckFailWillingRather

We live in a world that tells us not to care, to consume everything in sight. It tells us that being cool and being an individual actually means buying what everyone else is buying and doing what everyone else is doing.

Julia Butterfly Hill

LiveCoolWorldCareDoingSight

If there's a new HBO series, you know there's going to be a certain level of storytelling mastery - that you can trust it.

Chris Milk

TrustYouNewKnowStorytellingHBO

I'm not ever going to retire. That's - that wouldn't be good, for one, just to go somewhere and sit down and do nothing. Please. No, that's not moi.

Aretha Franklin

GoodDownGoNothingRetireGoing

In treating of the oak, I have considered that the species of it growing in warm climates is superior to that which is produced in cold countries. But we must not imagine this to be the case with all woods; on the contrary, the fir timber grown in cold countries is superior to that produced in warm ones, where its growth is rapid.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

GrowthColdWoodsWarmGrowingOak

We have fried things in cubes, historically. We tried bars of Hollandaise, we tried different shapes, but it ultimately seemed like the cube was the right shape.

Wylie Dufresne

RightShapeThingsShapesDifferent

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

William James

HappyBecauseSing

We spend money we don't have, on things we don't need, to make impressions that don't matter.

Tim Jackson

MoneyMatterNeedThingsImpressions

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