Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. H. Auden

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

Sachin Tendulkar

I really like Iceland. One of the nicest things about it is that I hardly ever had to reach for my credit card. There's practically nothing there to go shopping for.

Keith Henson

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

James Lovelock

The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.

Damien Rice

When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.

Ray LaHood

Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the world, is now ranked 16th according to the World Economic Forum, behind Iceland, Spain, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates.

Slavoj Zizek

The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.

Philip Larkin

Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.

Eoin Colfer

Are you saying that you people knew about these amorophobots all the time?" "Of course we did. They attacked us in Iceland. Remember?" "No. I was unconscious.

Carl Jung

Of course, I didn't kill them. They're just taking a little ... siesta, that's all.

Rob Zombie

I'm psychotically involved in every tiny little aspect. That's just the way I've been about everything my whole life.

Richard Baxter

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.

Renzo Piano

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.

Rebecca West

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.

Russell Brand

Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.

Russell Brand

As a person I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

Ron Chernow

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

Umberto Eco

Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

Condoleezza Rice

unfortunately on a path right now where relations are not improving, but are worsening.

Anton LaVey

Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.

Richard Rohr

there is no path to peace, but peace itself is the path.

Sarah Lewis

Masters are not experts because they take a subject to its conceptual end. They are masters because they realize that there isn't one. On utterly smooth ground, the path from aim to attainment is in the permanent future.

Sara Shepard

The obstacle is the path.

Vincent Van Gogh

Surely the true path is to dive deep into nature.

Wayne Dyer

How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.

Werner Heisenberg

The 'path' comes into existence only when we observe it.

Sarah Dessen

But something, somehow, had made all these paths converge. You couldn't find it on a checklist, or work it into the equation. It just happened.