"We have no mom-and-pop oil rigs in Norway."

-- Erik Naggum

#Mom Quotes #Oil Quotes #Norway Quotes

“The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.”
“A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence.”
“More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.”
“I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.”
“When he frowned again, she was fairly sure that the nomenclature did not please him, and she found herself wishing she had been birthed to other syllables.”
“I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.”
“Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.”

Source : "Tribeca Interview: Abigail Breslin and Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones : Rock God Meets Rock Child". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 06, 2011.
“I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.”

Source : "The Pumpkin Coach". Book by Louis Paul, 1935.

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