They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese. — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
My husband is from Finland, so every so often I'll throw a Scandinavian-themed party. — Sarah Rafferty Copy Share Image
You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
I always joke that I'm a British actress trying to break into Scandinavian TV. — MyAnna Buring Copy Share Image
The Scandinavians are dear people but they've never been what you might call bywords for wit and sparkle, have they? — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated. — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
The English language took in many many fertilizations, many many genes, from other languages, from foreign languages - Latin, French, Nordic languages,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I'm a Scandinavian Midwest girl who doesn't always know what's going on in herself emotionally, which is why I make music in… — Erika M. Anderson Copy Share Image
I suspect most self-described 18-year-old Scandinavian women named Inga who collect and wear string bikinis are, in reality, more likely to be… — Pat Sajak Copy Share Image
We still retain in Britain a deeper sense of class, a more obvious social stratification, and stronger class resentments, than any of… — Anthony Crosland Copy Share Image
You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a… — Katheryn Winnick Copy Share Image
Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Naturally I never had the intention to offend or alienate Slavs. … What makes me different from the ‘nazis’ are basically three… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
Fifteen hundred years is ample time in which to lose mutual comprehension. Iceland was colonized by the Norwegians at the end of… — Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza Copy Share Image
I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction -… — Anthony Geary Copy Share Image
I think the way we look upon gender is that we're realizing that we're not that different, which is a good thing.… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“It makes sense that the everyday experience and practice of something like hygge would not be reserved only for Scandinavians, but shared… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Please let him come, and give me the resilience & guts to make him respect me, be interested, and not to throw… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
“Even at their height, the Scandinavian welfare states left the economy to the private sector—which was then taxed at very high rates… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It's a myth that all Scandinavians are happy, healthy, outdoors people. It's often more a matter of class whether you can afford… — Sofia Helin Copy Share Image
And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
We're not troubled at all, but I think...Well, we're Scandinavians! We're Vikings and we have a lot of blackness in our souls. — Nina Persson Copy Share Image
No doubt there is a Scandinavian wave. I guess everybody is just surfing their wave until it breaks and hoping it won't… — Tobias Lindholm Copy Share Image
Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole… — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation. — David Korten Copy Share Image
Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke. — Rene Redzepi Copy Share Image
Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified… — Hjalmar Branting Copy Share Image
My favourite shows of the year are House of Cards, the Scandinavian versions of The Killing and The Bridge, and my guilty… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
