Iceland Quotes · Page 2

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

— Cornelia Funke

Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.

— Bjork

I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day…

— Siri Hustvedt

I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.

— Gloria Steinem

Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was…

— Werner Herzog

Kerry Katona sells 75-piece Tex Mex platters and king prawn party rings for a living. Or at least she did until Iceland…

— Richard Bacon

My sister and I visited Iceland in 2001, and I incorporated it into 'Pretty Little Liars.'

— Sara Shepard

When you play for Iceland I don't think there is often such a thing as a must-win game.

— Eidur Gudjohnsen

I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the…

— Anonymous

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really…

— Bjork

Consistently rated the most peaceable of all countries in the world by the Global Peace Index, Iceland has reduced its military expenditure…

— Scilla Elworthy

Ridley Scott was part of the production team on 'The Good Wife.' I auditioned on my iPhone, and it moved very quickly…

— Mike Colter

When I was a little kid growing up in Iceland, I always dreamed about creating something that could have an impact on…

— Magnus Scheving

Being a writer in Iceland, you get rewarded all the time: People really do read our books, and they have opinions; they…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

Maybe [Iceland] could be sort of a testing ground for solutions because we are few and because we are really a tech-oriented…

— Birgitta Jonsdottir

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is…

— Conor McGregor

Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never…

— Edward Gorey

Icy glares from vampires are far icier than icy glares from people and when the vampire giving you an icy glare is…

— Kevin Hearne

I try to show everybody Iceland all the time. My people are like, "Don't tell everybody the secret. It's so peaceful and…

— Anita Briem

I think after Iceland's independence in 1944, we were not very sure of ourselves and our confidence was really low. It took…

— Bjork

There's a reason why Jules Verne chose the place where the glacier was, where we start to descend into the center of…

— Anita Briem

What's happening now in Iceland is we grew and grew and grew from being one of the poorest nations in the world…

— Bjork

Iceland's Women's Day Off in 1975 saw 90% of Icelandic women take time off from their paid and unpaid work, an experience…

— Catherine Mayer

What do they do in these [private] clubs, anyway? Sit around saying things like 'Thank God I'm here. No Jews! What fun!…

— Fran Lebowitz

I'm still blown away by how desolate Iceland can be, how deserted it is. It's very often like living on the moon.

— Olafur Darri Olafsson

Everything is expensive in Iceland, especially food, and especially healthy food.

— Hafthor Bjornsson

Playing for Iceland, you always find the stats are against you, so I never pay too much attention to them.

— Gylfi Sigurdsson

I don't know whether it's a Nordic thing, but men in Iceland are very locked-up, very quiet. They hardly ever express emotion.

— Olafur Darri Olafsson

I couldn't cook. I could put a pizza from Iceland in the oven, but that was it.

— Joe Gomez

My dad played in Iceland and I think went over to Sweden for a couple of years.

— Gylfi Sigurdsson

I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

— Hannah Kent

I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did…

— Hannah Kent

I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only…

— Bjork

Thanks to the Jolabokaflod, books still matter in Iceland; they get read and talked about. Excitement fills the air. Every reading is…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

I'm seldom restricted by anything because I don't know how to restrict myself. It's a blessing and a curse. I feel a…

— Olof Arnalds

I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend…

— Ethan Zuckerman

I can go wherever, to Kuala Lumpur or wherever, and if somebody will ask me where I'm from and I say I'm…

— Jon Gnarr

“The problem with driving around Iceland is that you’re basically confronted by a new soul-enriching, breath-taking, life-affirming natural sight every five goddamn…

— Stephen Markley

Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus…

— Victor Pinchuk

Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be…

— Bjork