Best Swedish Sayings
89 Swedish quotes by 81 unique authors
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Also, when on a campaign to convince a stranger that you aren't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, throwing around phrases like "tangentially…
— Maureen Johnson
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He rolled his eyes. "First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or…
— Kelley Armstrong
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Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what you want," the…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The Stock Exchange is something very different. There is no economy and no production of goods and services. There are only fantasies in which people…
— Steig Larsson
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He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from…
— Cassandra Clare
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For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the basic laws of…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!
— Marisol Nichols
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Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown…
— Stieg Larsson
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I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality.
— Michael Leavitt
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My first idol was a Swedish goalie, Peter Lindmark.
— Henrik Lundqvist
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The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.
— Bayard Taylor
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As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow…
— Chris Bohjalian
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I liked Pat Cash, and I loved Mats Wilander. I went to the Australian Open with my parents, and I used to watch Wilander being…
— Lleyton Hewitt
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The Swedish engineer who invented the zip fastener made a greater intellectual leap than many scientists do in a lifetime.
— Martin Rees
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English…
— Carl Hagelin
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I live in New York, but I am always delighted to come to Europe because I am European and grew up here until I was…
— Isabella Rossellini
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The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.
— Fritz Haber
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If there is a Swedish style, I cannot identify it.
— Stefan Persson
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I met my wife in New York, so, we lived together there for five years, so my Swedish was kind of a gradual learning process.
— Greg Poehler
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It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy…
— Charles Glover Barkla
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very…
— Dale T. Mortensen
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I miss Swedish meatballs, but you can get them pretty much anywhere.
— Joel Kinnaman
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I was on a Swedish soap opera when I was 10.
— Joel Kinnaman
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I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.
— Joel Kinnaman
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My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family - a lot of…
— Cary Fukunaga
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