Hallgrimur Helgason famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.

  • The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.

  • In the light of what Proust wrote with so mild a stimulus, it is the world's loss that he did not have a heartier appetite. On a dozen Gardiner's Island oysters, a bowl of clam chowder, a peck of steamers, some bay scallops, three sauteed soft-shelled crabs, a few ears of fresh picked corn, a thin swordfish steak of generous area, a pair of lobsters, and a Long Island Duck, he might have written a masterpiece.

  • Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.

  • When one door opens, so does another one.

  • Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.

  • Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.

  • The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

  • I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time.

  • You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do.