Quotes by Swedish/Sweden authors (page 10)

"Be yourself. The world worships the original"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous"

Ingrid Bergman, Actress

"If a tree dies, plant another in its place"

Carolus Linnaeus, Scientist

"Fools are more to be feared than the wicked"

Queen Christina, Royalty

"When I was a teenager, I was like, 'Something is wrong with me. I don't fit in. I'm not like everybody else.' So, I always knew that I wanted to explore and move on, but it was completely unexpected, the way it happened"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"If I don't see myself as a victim, then I'm not a victim"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"It's to surprise people about something that is extremely well known. I mean human reproduction, the human body, nature and so on. To surprise them with a new technique"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to work with very very poor lighting. But we can increase the light with computers"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved"

Goran Persson, Politician

"A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story"

Eyvind Johnson, Author

"We had a great group of guys when I was there, five of us, I think. It's a great competition. Every practice was hard. I think that's helped us a lot, everybody that was there"

Peter Forsberg, Athlete

"My kids love Ibiza and we feel committed to it because we keep coming back to the same area. People recognise us in shops now and we have a social life here. We cook at home and have friends around"

Neneh Cherry, Musician

"I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'"

Malin Akerman, Actress

"I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'"

Malin Akerman, Actress

"I can't walk by chocolate without eating it"

Malin Akerman, Actress

"I'm interested in people's darker side, the ones that aren't easy and well balanced. The cracks"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"A human being is so irreplaceable. So valuable and so unique"

Goran Persson, Politician

"Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone"

Eyvind Johnson, Author

"I wouldn't accept losing as a team, wouldn't accept losing as my team. It's like a war every practice. I think it helped us a lot"

Peter Forsberg, Athlete

"I hope I never get so old I get religious"

Ingmar Bergman, Director

"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls"

Ingmar Bergman, Director

"If public opinion still endorses military action that's one thing, but if they wait maybe it will not. So it's not only impatience, but there are several other factors"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"But I would say if the Security Council is only relevant if it agrees with the United States, then we have come a long way in a direction that I do not like very much"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them"

Carolus Linnaeus, Scientist

"The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"International cooperation, multilateralism is indispensable"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"By and large my relations with the US were good"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"The story of Jesus is very fascinating. It still has such a tremendous power, even after 2,000 years! We don't really know if he existed as a historical figure"

Bjorn Ulvaeus, Musician

"Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being"

Bjorn Ulvaeus, Musician

"I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious"

Bjorn Ulvaeus, Musician

"Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it"

Claes Oldenburg, Sculptor

"The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them"

Bjorn Ulvaeus, Musician

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Quotes by Swedish authors