Quote by Joshua Foer

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

— Bjork

Most visitors to Iceland tend to spend just a few hours in Reykjavik before moving on to the geological wonders beyond. I think they…

— Fiona Bruce

I don't want to make light of the importance of my musical upbringing, as you cannot avoid being influenced by the area you grow…

— Johann Johannsson

I've almost had to prove myself to Icelandic people. Living in such an isolated space, it gives you this innate sense of wanderlust, and…

— Laufey

Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to…

— Bjork

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there…

— Anonymous

It's always good to see that someone can go out of Iceland and do some things.

— Tomas Lemarquis

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

— Anita Briem

“Island populations often breed strange and interesting genomes. Because Iceland is so small, with a precisely known chronology of inhabitation to the present day,…

— Adam Rutherford

The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings…

— Jane Yolen

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

— Bjork

Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none…

— Joseph Jacobs