Quotes About Norwegian

Fin Gall - Gaelic term for Vikings of Norwegian descent. It means White Strangers.

I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.

Colm Feore. Newspaper column, Norwegian water. Column of steel, column of virtue, just for God's sake, Colm.

Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.

As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

Her sides were made from oak and Norwegian mountain fir

Men hvad bruker hun al den sherryen til? De har visst svært ofte skjelpadesuppe der i huset. Ja men en flaske om dag!

My impression, having been in the Norwegian government for several years, is that taking a child into care is an extremely serious decision which is really taken as a last resort, when the situation warrants it, for the well-being of the children.

This idea that sickness was the result of tiny, nearly invisible creatures swarming in the blood would have seemed ridiculous but for the fact that Dr. Mouritz had once shown her, under a microscope, the pink, tube-shaped "bacteria" discovered to be the cause of leprosy by the Norwegian scientist Gerhard Hansen.

This book was made possible by the letter "ø." Also the letter "æ." The first time I saw them, I fell in love and just had to learn the language they belonged to. That language turned out to be Norwegian, with its rich history of folk tales about trolls and polar bears and clever young lads and lasses out to make their fortune. I only hope that I didn't offend my Danish blacksmith forbears by choosing to study Norwegian instead of Danish in college.

Minneapolis was small, somnolent, and full of Swedish and Norwegian farmers as charming as cornstalks.

Personally, I am a nationalist, but my race is my nation, and I see all true Europeans as my racial brethren and part of my nation, be them Norwegian, Danish, or Swedish, French, German, or English, Russian, Polish, or Belorussian, or whatever.

Perhaps Nansen, or at least the name of his ship, owed something to Verne as well. Jules Verne, the great French pioneer of science fiction, had also shown interest in the Arctic. Some thirty years earlier, he had published The English at the North Pole, in which there figured an expedition ship called Forward – of which Fram, naturally, was the Norwegian equivalent.

Nansen introduced what has come to be known as the layer principle. Still faithful to Dr Jaeger's precepts, he stuck to pure wool. There were to be four layers: underwear, shirt, sweater and, finally, jacket, knee breeches and leggings made of a tough, thick Norwegian woollen material called vadmel.

I think the Norweigan model of municipalities owning cinemas and being programmed by people who know about films is a good one.

My Norwegian wife Aase was a Pan Am stewardess back in the Seventies when we met. She was very attractive, and we became good friends, but I was travelling a lot and she was jetting back and forth across the Atlantic, so it was a while before we got together.

She told me she worked in the morningAnd started to laugh,I told her I didn'tAnd crawled off to sleep in the bath.And when I awokeI was alone,This bird had flown.So I lit a fire,Isn't it goodNorwegian wood.

You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought.

My main problem with Norwegian Black Metal is that almost all the bands from 1992-1993 are made up of rats, who ratted each other out and blamed me for everything that went wrong in the scene. I really don't want to be associated with them in any way.

Good old Norwegian cooking: you don't read much about that, or about good old Norwegian hospitality.

Where there are Norwegian communities, there are cod clubs.

His spear, to equal which the tallest pineHewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mastOf some great ammiral, were but a wand,He walk'd with, to support uneasy stepsOver the burning marle.

You cannot entertain a Norwegian, you cannot bore a German, and you cannot educate an American or a chimpanzee.