Bjornstjerne Bjornson Quotes

Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: norwegian
  • Birth: December 8, 1832 - April 26, 1910

Topics

LifeFaithGreatJusticeSunshine

It took me many years to figure out how to structure a compelling story.

Jessica Abel

MeStoryStructureYearsOutHow

Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people who see the organization as an opportunity to advance themselves.

Robert Shea

OpportunityPurposePeopleBetter

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

Max Frisch

FriendHumorLaughYouSayMean

I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.

Spike Milligan

HandsProveRightFriendlyStill

Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For scientists, or Supreme Court justices, or chief executives, or the woman who wants to learn to fly F-l8s off an aircraft carrier, it works differently.

Stacy Schiff

WomenPoliticsWomanFlyLearnMay

I'm scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know that nearly 90 percent of those plastic bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose?

Robert Englund

TodayWaterPeopleWindYouKnow

Particularly with internships, you have to work for a year with no money. How on Earth are you going to finance that?

Rob James-Collier

WorkMoneyFinanceYearYouEarth

I believe art is utterly important. It is one of the things that could save us.

Mary Oliver

ArtBelieveImportantI BelieveUs

I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck.

Joshua Leonard

LuckProudWeirdProjectFilmJust

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

AdversityCharacterButterflyPeople

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

Derek Bailey

MeFreeThinkBluesNeverFine

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Dorothy Hamill

WorkTimeThinkBetterIceYou

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