Holmenkollen Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

Imagine that your mouth is a water spout. When you open the valve (speak), whatever comes out is an indicator of what's inside of you. — Alan E. Nelson

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit. — C.S. Lewis

If you spend your life living in fear or doubt, you will never actually live life, and will only be coexisting with the rest of the world. — Behdad Sami

Tomorrow is never a guarantee; live life to the fullest and never stop smiling. — Harper Sloan

Your fears are not you. Do you hear me? They don't define who you are. — S.L. Jennings

It is only when women start to organize in large numbers that we become a political force, and begin to move towards the possibility of a truly democratic society in which every human being can be brave, responsible, thinking and diligent in the struggle to live at once freely and unselfishly. Such a democracy would be communism, and is beyond our present imagining. — Sheila Rowbotham

I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures. — Mira Nair

My Teacher Sees Right Through Me
I didn't do my homework.
My teacher asked me, "Why?"
I answered him, "It's much too hard."
He said, "You didn't try."
I told him, "My dog ate it."
He said, "You have no dog."
I said, "I went out running."
He said, "You never jog."
I told him, "I had chores to do."
He said, "You watched TV."
I said, "I saw the doctor."
He said, "You were with me."
My teacher sees right through my fibs,
which makes me very sad.
It's hard to fool the teacher
when the teacher is your dad. — Bruce Lansky

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river. — Louisa May Alcott

Reality can be entered through the main door or it can be slipped into through a window, which is much more fun. — Gianni Rodari

After the long time of going together and the mutual trust that had grown out of that time, Payne had occasion to realize that no mutual trust had grown out of the long time they had gone together. — Thomas McGuane

A Great Man Has Two Hearts.
One Bleeds And The Other Forbears. — Kahlil Gibran

When a new baby is expected mother has 9 months to prepare the family and the kitchen for her departure! — Nursing Mothers' Association Of Australia

Everything breaks if you hit it hard enough. — Hannah Tinti

I never get writer's block. My secret ... I have purring cats in surround sound while I write ... best white noise on the planet. R.Rose when asked how she deals with writer's block. — R. Rose