Grettir Quotes & Sayings

About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition. — Sabine Baring-Gould

I went to Iceland in 1861 and went over nearly every bit of the ground made famous by the adventures of Grettir. — Sabine Baring-Gould

I tried body surfing once, but how often do you find a corpse? — Emo Philips

Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense. — Maggie Stiefvater

There was a man named Ofeig, nicknamed Grettir. He was the son of Einar, the son of Olvir the Babyman. He was a brother of Oleif the Broad, the father of Thormod Shaft. Another son of Olvir was named Steinolf, the father of Una, whom Thorbjorn the Salmon-man married. — Unknown

I'm only 5-foot-6, but people think I'm sort of a great big Viking woman. I'm not - I'm completely normal and average. — Kate Winslet

Fashion is a mysterious energy, a visual moment-impossible to predict where it goes, — Diane Von Furstenberg

Chin up. There are other fish in the sea. It's a big ocean. Sometimes we need to catch and release a few before we find the keeper. — Kasie West

Place in the fall of 1979, with Drs. Geisler, Hoehner, Nicole, and Radmacher in attendance. It was the consensus of those present that we should not undertake to modify a statement that so many people had signed, both at the summit meeting and afterward. But
in order to ward off misunderstandings and to provide an exposition of the position advocated by the ICBI, it was thought desirable to provide a — R.C. Sproul

A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and Stream. — Bob Hope

Do mortal fools still measure the increments leading to their deaths, wagering pleasures against costs, persisting in the delusion that deeds have value, that the world and all the gods sit in judgment over every decision made or not made? — Steven Erikson

What a silence when you are here. What
a hellish silence.
You sit and I sit.
You lost and I lose.
— Janos Pilinszky