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Quotes by Danish Authors
"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 achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money."
"I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio."
"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him."
"Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God."
"Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession."
"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."
"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."
"When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things."
"I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful."
"On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world."
"Who says I'm gonna marry another guy? In Europe it's not like in America, where you set a date."
"When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it."
"Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so."
"I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later."
"But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago."
"That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them."
"Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer."
"Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher."
"It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother."
"After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either."
"Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own."
"People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it."
"Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights."
"There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography."
"I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries."
"Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior."
"People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language."
"More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all."
"You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance."
"It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important."
"Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid."
"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."
"I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved."
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