Nordhaug Golfklubb Quotes & Sayings

It's worth pointing out that [Herman Melville] worked in [the New York Custom House] as a deputy customs inspector between 1866 and 1885. Nineteen years, and he never got a raise - four dollars a day, six days a week. He was by then a washed-up writer, forgotten and poor. I used to find this subject heartbreaking, a waste: the greatest living American author was forced to spend his days writing tariff reports instead of novels. But now, knowing what I know about the sleaze of the New York Custom House, and the honorable if bitter decency with which Melville did his job, I have come to regard literature's loss as the republic's gain. Great writers are a dime a dozen in New York. But an honest customs inspector in the Gilded Age? Unheard of. — Sarah Vowell

Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance, — Rudyard Kipling

If you have beautiful knees, show your knees. I'm not a puritan. I love skin. — Francisco Costa

The center of our story is the tension between the yearning to create a home and the urge to get out of it. I — Gail Collins

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. — Xavier Dolan

A true diamond never over shadows... it's the brilliance of the subtle shine that's the most attractive. — Dena Tyson

When there is no more room in hell the dead will walk the earth." Dawn of the Dead — David P. Forsyth

If you blunder by accident into a secret it's like you've pushed open a door where you thought was just a wall. You can look through, if you're brave or reckless enough you can even step inside-taking a chance what you'll learn is worth what it costs. — Joyce Carol Oates

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere. — Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians. — Yves Montand

You're never too good to get better ... take that and apply that to everything in your life. — Benson Henderson

I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake. — Ted Danson

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow. — Aung San Suu Kyi

A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee. — Alec Issigonis