Torleif Solstad Quotes & Sayings

Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever. — Mick Jagger

A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night. — George Burns

Running! If there is any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I cannot think of what it might be. — Joyce Carol Oates

Bryna is convinced her children are bipolar, and I wasn't going to swoop into a stranger's home for an afternoon and tell them all they were normal. — Jon Ronson

The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle. — Stephen King

Our disenchantment of the night through artificial lighting may appear, if it is noticed at all, as a regrettable but eventually trivial side effect of contemporary life. That winter hour, though, up on the summit ridge with the stars falling plainly far above, it seemed to me that our estrangement from the dark was a great and serious loss. We are, as a species, finding it increasingly hard to imagine that we are part of something which is larger than our own capacity. We have come to accept a heresy of aloofness, a humanist belief in human difference, and we suppress wherever possible the checks and balances on us - the reminders that the world is greater than us or that we are contained within it. — Robert Macfarlane

When crushed to your knees, it is best to dig in your heels. — Wes Fesler

She doesn't say anything for a few seconds. "Are you sure, Kate? A year is a long time, especially at your age."
"True. It would be a shame for you to miss my first step."
She rolls her eyes. "You know what I mean. — Rysa Walker