Sundvolden Hotel Quotes & Sayings

Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker. — Gautama Buddha

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — Aristotle.

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea. — Philip Reeve

It was disgraceful but also romantic enough to make Lina's heart turn. — Anna Godbersen

The beagle and the kobold approached, walking out of the dusty distance. — Terry Pratchett

He is sometimes slave who should be master; and sometimes master who should be slave. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

We live a pleasant life shopping at the Food Shoppe ... taking the kids to the Weinery-Beanery, ... and eating bran flakes .. and then, with no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain. Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust. — Garrison Keillor

You know, when everybody starts to live from their heart, and go for what they want, they don't go for the same things. That's the beauty of this. We don't all want BMWs. We don't all want the same person. We don't all want the same experiences. We don't all want the same clothing. We don't all want ... fill in the blank — Joe Vitale

And when I concentrate on the stars, the planets, and their motions, I have an irresistible sense of machinery, clockwork, elegant precision working on a scale that, however lofty our aspirations, dwarfs and humbles us. — Carl Sagan

The question is: will I get used to a menu with kilojoules instead of calories? I mean, I don't think anyone even knows how many kilojoules are in a calorie. I had to break out a whiteboard this morning and do calculus just to figure out how many calories were in a glass of water Down Under. — Elle Lothlorien

I'm not excited when bands strip things down. I'm not excited by the White Stripes. — Matt Tong

Give us this day our daily discount merchandise. — Billy Joel

That would be showing him a part of her soul, a part of her mind, that she's never risked showing anyone. The raw and squirming part that indifferent high-school counselor were always prying at, the part therapists tried to trick her into showing them for free, the part her parents hated her for. The light and the darkness behind her eyes. The soft places. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

On True Blood
I've never told anybody this
but I was so nervous and then I was so drunk that after I shot the scene I was going up to the crew members
I had just met all these people the day before
and I was going up to all of them like, 'You got a boner! You do! You've got one!' It was horrible. — Lizzy Caplan