Kittelsen Troll Quotes & Sayings

No baby knows when the nipple is pulled from his mouth for the last time. No child knows when he last calls his mother "Mama." No small boy knows when the book has closed on the last bedtime story that will ever be read to him. No boy knows when the water drains from the last bath he will ever take with his brother. No young man knows, as he first feels his greatest pleasure, that he will never again not be sexual. No brinking woman knows, as she sleeps, that it will be four decades before she will again awake infertile. No mother knows she is hearing the word Mama for the last time. No father knows when the book has closed on the last bedtime story he will ever read: From that day on, and for many years to come, peace reigned on the island of Ithaca, and the gods looked favorably upon Odysseus, his wife, and his son. — Jonathan Safran Foer

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk. — Samuel Johnson

To assume that His plan fails and that he strives to no effect is to reduce Him to the level of His creatures and make Him no God at all. — Loraine Boettner

If it were possible to escape from lonely experiences for a moment and stand back from the tree one would see the myriad bright worlds sparkling upon it. But only the greatest could do that. For all but the greatest their own experience was a prison house until the ending of the days. But one could know how bright was the light that carried all souls back to the light when for a moment one entered the world of a child. — Elizabeth Goudge

I knew exactly where he existed in my heart; I had no idea where he existed in the universe. — Beatriz Williams

So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that. — Charlize Theron

When you supervise something, it is one thing. When you are in the middle of something, there is a different pace of life. — Vladimir Potanin

There is no such thing as life in-between. — Pat Riley

Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still. — Jef Mallett

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. — Anatole France

Poor Mr. Baggins - it was a weary long time that he lived in that place all alone, and always in hiding, never daring to take off his ring, — J.R.R. Tolkien

One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking! — Arthur Conan Doyle