Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should…

I think we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway, and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people.

— Bernie Sanders

It is also a fact that people who are isolated and alienated in their neighborhoods as a result of the large number of neighbors…

— Carl I. Hagen

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