Baltasar Kormakur Quotes

Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.

Baltasar Kormakur

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: icelander
  • Birth: February 27, 1966

Topics

GoodBusinessGreatPeopleWhyWho

I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.

Melissa Bank

LiveBeautifulStreetOutAnything

The idea is to make the script out of a political analysis and then to convey that - sometimes in poetry, sometimes science, sometimes all it takes is a film. The film itself is less and less spectacular because I think very strongly now the more spectacular you are, the more you are absorbed by the things you are trying to destroy.

Jean-Luc Godard

SciencePoetryThinkPoliticalYou

Once the world has been created, the fantasy author still has to bring the story's characters to life and unfold a gripping plot. That's why good fantasy is such a hard act to bring off.

Tony Bradman

LifeGoodWorldStoryWhyFantasy

I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

Tom Scholz

GoodGreatTeenInfluenceSongKnow

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

Mitch Hedberg

SorryYouStairsBecomeNeverSee

The immigrant blame game is constant. Cynical politicians believe it drives poll numbers; cynical commentators believe it drives TV ratings.

Luis Gutierrez

BlameGameBelieveNumbersImmigrant

Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.

Ludwig Quidde

PeaceLongSecuritySoundPointFar

I decided right away that whomever was going to advise me had to be fundamentally interested in music. This protected me from the skullduggery common to the music industry then and that still exists today. Of course, using this method meant that some things we didn't know and just had to learn how to do it together.

Johnny Mathis

MusicTodayTogetherMeLearnKnow

The nerdist movement is less about consumers; there is a large contingent that are creative nerdists instead of consumers.

Chris Hardwick

CreativeMovementConsumersLarge

There is no conflict in looking good. You buy things you need, and then you do something good for society.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

GoodConflictSocietyLookingYou

I usually end up falling for one of my really good guy friends because I know everything about them, and you fall in love with their personalities, and it makes them become attractive to you in your eyes.

Colbie Caillat

LoveGoodEyesEndFriendsYou

I'm not very patient.

Cole Swindell

PatientVery

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