Danish Quotes
52 quotes by 48 authors
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Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.
— Clementine Paddleford
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In that memorable year, 1822: Oersted, a Danish physicist, held in his hands a piece of copper wire, joined by its extremities to the two…
— Louis Pasteur
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A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to write…
— Eric Partridge
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The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as equals they made…
— Flemming Rose
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A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.
— Chevy Chase
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My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.
— Ted Shackelford
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Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it...was rather a continuous process of purification, and for me…
— Hans Wegner
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People don't think of their office as a workplace anymore. They think of it as a stationary store with Danish. You want to get your…
— Jerry Seinfeld
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I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival
— Gillian Flynn
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We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an…
— Fredrik Bajer
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At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is…
— Morton Feldman
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Silver is the best material we have. And silver has this wonderful shine like moonlight ... a light taken straight from a Danish summer's night.…
— Georg Jensen
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I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.
— Virginia Madsen
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Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish.
— Paul Watson
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To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central…
— Robert Graves
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American Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually wrapped in cellophane. Danish Danish is light, crisp, buttery and often tastes…
— R. W. Apple
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He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
— Georg Brandes
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Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The…
— Eric Sevareid
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Danish studies of 10,000 birds killed revealed that almost all died in collisions with buildings, cars and wires; only 10 were killed by windmills. Alternative…
— David Suzuki
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Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.
— Mads Mikkelsen
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