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  • Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.

    Dream   Song   Morning  
    FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011
  • [My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop on a plane and go sing to people in Norway.

    People   Norway   Able  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • We're not going to walk into the World Cup thinking, 'Ah, you know, we beat Norway 5-0 and we beat Japan so now we're great and we're untouchable'. It's a reality check for a few guys and that's a good thing at this time so it doesn't happen on June 12 (when the U.S. team opens World Cup play against the Czech Republic).

    Team   Reality   Thinking  
  • My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

  • There's no-one up there in Northern Norway, food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.

    Beautiful   Eye   Looks  
    Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.
  • It turns out that conservationism can be fun, with the news that the Norwegian red king crab - which weighs in at an impressive full kilo of juicy crabby goodness per shell - must be eaten as much as possible, because it's scoffing all the other fish in Norway. In fact, it would be remiss of all of us if we didn't eat as many of these buggers as we possible can every week because they now provide a genuine ecological threat to fellow marine life. So, c'mon vegetarians. Let's see how much you really care about the environment.

    Funny   Kings   Marine  
  • I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

    Russia   France   Norway  
  • Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . Conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious.

    Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
  • I have a B.A. in Spanish, so briefly I thought that somebody might pay me to speak Spanish badly in another country, like Norway.

    Country   Might   Pay  
    Interview with Jennifer L. Knox, www.newyorker.com. June 14, 2010.
  • Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.

    Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books
  • I Have traveled 201 countries including Hell (Norway), and the strangest thing I've seenwas man

    Country   Men   Norway  
  • If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, youll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe.

    Russia   Doors   Names  
  • I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.

    Horse   Texas   Norway  
  • Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.

    Country   Art   House  
    "'King of Devil's Island': Stellan Skarsgård mentors" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. January 05, 2012.
  • I grew up in Los Angeles, and I've made movies all over the world... I've been in New York, Norway, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, London - I've been in all these cities, shooting away in the winter, thinking, 'People who choose to live here are insane.

  • Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it

    Country   World   Norway  
  • I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • There is no other article for individual use so universally known or widely distributed. In my travels I have found [the safety razor] in the most northern town in Norway and in the heart of the Sahara Desert.

    Travel   Heart   Safety  
  • It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.

    Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”
  • Snowboarding's tough, because you've got to go to the mountains. For me, I love the skateboard season because I get to hangout at home and still be skating. I don't have to travel to Norway or Japan or these crazy places to be snowboarding.

    Travel   Crazy   Home  
  • Some people reckoned up all King Harald's (King of Norway) great achievements, and said that nothing would be too difficult for him. But there were others who said that England would be very hard to conquer. It was very populous and the warriors who were known as the king's Housecarls were so valiant, that any one of them was worth two of the best in King Harald's army

    Kings   Warrior   Army  
  • Norway's a very gender-aware country, and we're very liberal. There are lots of women's voices being heard here compared to many other countries.

    Country   Voice   Norway  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I'm used to fat and hairy women journalists.

    Home   Norway   Used  
  • How can the United States be competitive globally if higher education is unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden have no tuition for college. Other countries have low tuition. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Instead of spending endless amounts on the military, we need to invest in our young people.

  • This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is. The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are.

    Country   Heart   Worry  
    "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.
  • Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.

    Struggle   Past   College  
    Source: www.socialistalternative.org
  • In Turkey it was always 1952, in Malaysia 1937; Afghanistan was 1910 and Bolivia 1949. It is 20 years ago in the Soviet Union, 10 in Norway, five in France. It is always last year in Australia and next week in Japan.

    Japan   Next Week   Years  
    Paul Theroux (2012). “The Lower River”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.

  • Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.

  • There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.

    People   World   Norway  
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