Halldor Laxness Quotes

Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.

Halldor Laxness

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: icelander
  • Birth: April 23, 1902 - February 8, 1998

Topics

LifeLoveRespectHumbleChild

My best quality is that I talk to everyone. My worst quality is that I talk to everyone.

Joe Lhota

BestQualityWorstTalkEveryone

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

Jodi Picoult

GoodBookYouInsideEveryoneOut

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

Maxwell Maltz

Moving OnManBalanceMoving Forward

Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.

Stevie Nicks

ThoughtBackSayEverythingPoet

Trump and Bernie Sanders are different sides of the same coin.

Rob Portman

SidesSameCoinDifferentTrump

Each young reader has to fashion an entirely new 'reading circuit' afresh every time. There is no one neat circuit just waiting to unfold. This means that the circuit can become more or less developed depending on the particulars of the learner: e.g., instruction, culture, motivation, educational opportunity.

Maryanne Wolf

OpportunityTimeCultureWaitingNew

I have run two small businesses in Kansas, and I have seen how government can crush entrepreneurism. That's why I ran for Congress. It just so happens that there are a lot of people in south central Kansas who agree with me on that.

Mike Pompeo

GovernmentPeopleMeSmallRunWhy

My parents strapped a pair of plastic skis on my boots when I was two years old and sent me down our driveway in Vail. Of course, they were holding on to me the whole time, but that was my first experience 'skiing.'

Mikaela Shiffrin

TimeExperienceParentsMeSkiing

I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.

Luke Goss

ManConfidentUncomfortableLookWay

You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

GodDeathYouTouchThingsBecause

I've absolutely fought against having to be half-naked to sell a track.

Christina Grimmie

TrackAgainstSellAbsolutelyHaving

I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls.

Conor Oberst

PoliticsWritingThinkSocial Issues

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