Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By 1975 - and continuing to today - all Americans came to believe that they had a "right" to a safe, clean,… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody… — Jay S. Walker Copy Share Image
What can you do? [Bernie] Sanders, as a Jewish man: What could Pharaoh do to extend his time, and stop the plagues… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, we often heard Islam in the form of a slogan: "Islam is the solution," but no one… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies and as soon as… — Amy Heckerling Copy Share Image
I was out there for 12 days. There are more beggars in Soho than there are in Kabul. — Neil Morrissey Copy Share Image
President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed president - his economy is bleak,… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent… — Dermot Mulroney Copy Share Image
I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The fastest growing segment of the population in the world right now is over the age of 90, and in some cases… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I'm referred to, I see, as 'the biggest banker in modern publishing'. Now there's a line that needed the celebrated Guardian proof-reading. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Now, some of the most dangerous places for women to be in the world are modern, Western, rich European countries. Why? One… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
It has become a cliché to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
In modern Greek history, there is a close relationship between national humiliation and political radicalization. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
'Modern Love' completes the EP as an intricate musical piece weaving in and out of complex rhythms. There is even a beatless… — Subb-an Copy Share Image
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I have more than thirty thousand hours of family and relationship counseling experience under my belt. Over the years, I have seen… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“The catastrophe slumbering in the womb of theoretical culture is gradually beginning to frighten modern man; in other words, he is beginning… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image… — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
I don't care what the New York Times says about me, and no one I care about cares what the New York… — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I've noticed the Fair Folk often say 'perhaps' when there is a truth they want to hide," Clary said. "It keeps you… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better? — Dan Hicks Copy Share Image
The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Modern American politicians have the same cowardice about denying an equally bloodthirsty even sillier god, Jehovah. None of us would seriously consider… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act. — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
There are so many fantastic stories and I want to bring Thor and Odin and the other gods into the modern world,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about values… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Believers in the doctrines of modern Christendom will reap damnation to their souls. — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
So, look, in order to move our country forward, we have to do the things our parents and grandparents did. They believed… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
When man sends colonies into space, he will be able to mount moveable, sun-reflecting mirrors to simulate rhythms of day and night… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
The majority of modern medicines originate in nature. Although some mushrooms have been used in therapies for thousands of years, we are… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
Modern man's happiness consists in the thrill of looking at the shop windows, and in buying all that he can afford to… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image