Quotes About Andersen

Lars von Trier is a very good storyteller. He's like an H. C. Andersen for adults.

As Andersen told it, the tale was not for young children, not even called 'The Little'-just, 'The Mermaid.' It's about love and grief, a myth of longing and sacrifice, far closer, say, to Goethe's Parable than to any jovial folktale, much less to today's manufactured juvenile distractions.

Where are your sons? asked the prince. Well, it's not so easy to give an answer when you ask a stupid question! said the woman.

Well, that's not easy to answer when the question is so stupidly put...

looking old witch in the road. Her under-lip hung quite down on her breast, and she stopped and said, "Good

she suggested deleting senior Andersen partners from the circulation list for Enron e-mails because it "increases their likelihood of being a witness." Duncan

The load was so great that Andersen summoned a shredding truck from a local disposal company called Shred-It. (The company's motto: "Your secrets are safe with us.")

Oh, God, oh, God. A sense of humor. She'd thought the hardly-even-a-hint she'd caught of it a while back had been a one-off thing, but that was a joke he'd just made. An honest-to-God joke! She wanted to have his baby.

I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was 'The Little Mermaid,' and I don't know if you remember 'The Little Mermaid,' but it's dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.

oppose net tax increases," "any and all" of them, for as long as they're in office.

I guess I am running the risk of becoming the Hans Christian Andersen of opera.

You know why they've got such great voices, the TV people? Andersen asked, going off in a new direction. Because they reverberate in the space where most people have brains. . .

The idea that objectivity is best reached only through rational thought is a specifically Western and masculine way of thinking--one that we will challenge throughout the book.