Jan Erik Vold famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

  • A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

  • In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

  • Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.

  • When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

  • God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

  • Loosing you would be the only thing that could destroy me

  • Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness.

  • If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds

  • To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.