Quotes About Scandinavian

I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshippers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.

She's really married? Tallow said to Bat. Yeah. Talia's like this Scandinavian Amazon who can break rocks with her boobs. She could fit Scarly in her armpit. Sometimes I think she likes Scarly just because she was the most portable lesbian available.

You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

the appearance of Scandinavian Vikings in Ireland, Britain and Francia.

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

I think that being Jewish has generated an extremely strong sense of the importance of family. If I look at my Scandinavian colleagues, they don't have that urgency about family. All my movies are about that.

In my Scandinavian-American family, we were conditioned never to sit, at least not comfortably. I was endlessly going back to work. We longed for the fleeting respite of being useful and regarded sleep as a reward for exhaustion, always to be deferred until after the sun goes down.

Every year, the bright Scandinavian summer nights fade without anyone's noticing. One evening in August you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden it's pitch-black. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.

Every year, the bright Scandinavian summer nights fade away without anyone's noticing. One evening in August you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden it's pitch-black. A great warm, dark silence surrounds the house. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness.

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

The English language is filled with Scandinavian words such as 'sky' and 'die', 'anger' and 'skin' and 'wing', 'law' and 'birth', 'bread' and 'eggs'.

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Comparisons between America and the Scandinavian countries typically focus on the top marginal tax rate. In America, it's around 46 percent when you combine federal and state income taxes. This compares with Norway at 39 percent, Sweden at 56 percent and Denmark at 60 percent. Norway's top marginal income tax rate is actually lower than that of the United States. Sweden and Denmark's rates are substantially higher. But

No Scandinavian has ever identified American socialism as resembling Scandinavian socialism, even in embryo. The defining features of American socialism and the American Left (identity politics, class and ethnic division, and social intimidation to enforce these categories) are simply absent in the Nordic countries. -chapter 4

Everything to the north and east of that line was ruled by men of Scandinavian descent.

I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me.

I thought I could organise freedom. How Scandinavian of me. –Björk