Colm Feore. Newspaper column, Norwegian water. Column of…

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

My basic philosophy can be summed up by an expression we use in Norwegian: hurry slowly. Get there, but be patient.

— Grete Waitz

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

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