The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that…

“You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You feel that…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long…

— Bill Bryson

At a time when the threat of nuclear arms is again increasing, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to underline that this threat must be…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the fairies. Norwegian-Americans…

— Richard Mercer Dorson

It is typically Norwegian to be good

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

I really hated being the Norwegian girl in every single conversation in Australia, so I tried to make my Norwegian-ness invisible, speaking like whoever…

— Jenny Hval

The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking…

— Al Gore

I think I realised, at teachers' training school, that I felt that the culture that I came from, the Sámi culture, was not good…

— Mari Boine

I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way.

— Alexander Hanson

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only arseholes do that.

— Haruki Murakami

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American…

— Mark Steyn

“Norwegians were not exactly what you might call a cultured people - Nikolai Loeb”

— Jo Nesbø

I think I can work with different crews; I've worked with Bulgarian, Norwegian, Japanese, and Chinese crews. For me, the most important thing is…

— Isabel Coixet

And then, with a European director and Norwegian actors speaking in Norwegian, it was going to be very interesting. So, whatever initial trepidation or…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying "the script" this and "the script" that, when they've never read the script any more…

— William Monahan