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Quotes by Danish Authors
"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field."
"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming."
"Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries."
"When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance."
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
"Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment."
"I really try to say things as they basically are and it so happens that it is a good message that things are getting better, but there are still problems."
"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."
"If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe."
"That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another."
"There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide."
"This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today."
"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived."
"Kate is going to come back, she is going to be super-strong again. Everybody is going to want her again because she is that kind of person. She is very professional and beautiful and she is going to be around forever."
"I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world."
"I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology."
"Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns."
"Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate."
"That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems."
"When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour."
"I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
"This is the task, I think, of a letter movement. But it should be set up only in states where a significant response can be achieved, for a letter movement necessarily presupposes a strong organization."
"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk."
"If a building becomes architecture, then it is art."
"Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne."
"Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life."
"If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting."
"On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out."
"The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics."
"It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it."
"Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself."
"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
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