If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark. — Richard G. Wilkinson
Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer. — Clementine Paddleford
Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul. — Isak Dinesen
I'm really looking forward to playing in Copenhagen again. Last time I stayed as long as I could, took pictures, signed autographs, and hung out until they through me out of the place! — George Duke
Iceland, I'm in love with that country, the people are incredible. — Kit Harington
Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it — Barack Obama
All cheaters shop for Swedish discount furniture. — Joe Gatto
While other nations do battle, you lucky Austria, you wed. — Maria Theresa
I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again. — Tony Visconti
A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business. — David Bonderman
Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called "Vlam — Kristin Cashore
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. — Steven Wright
I'm 100% Norwegian. Three generations removed and all continuous inbreeding of Norwegian of Minnesota and Iowa, so I traveled to Norway before. — Eric Christian Olsen
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. — Peter Ustinov
Short Denmark Quotes
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. — William Shakespeare
My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year. — Ted Shackelford
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. — William Shakespeare
We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt
There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. — William Shakespeare
In Denmark lots of people come up to me for autographs. — Caroline Wozniacki
[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage. — Bette Midler
I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism. — Margrethe II of Denmark
I will remain on the throne until I fall off. — Margrethe II of Denmark
For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ. — William Shakespeare
Denmark In Hamlet Quotes
As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind. — Pranab Mukherjee
But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance. — William Shakespeare
I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw. — William Shakespeare
Why, what should be the fear?
I do not set my life at a pin's fee. — William Shakespeare
For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart. — William Shakespeare
Twins are under-represented in the media. Hamlet - never twins. Hamlet Twins Of Denmark. King And Queen Lear. It would work. Come on, more twins on television. — Steven Moffat
Copenhagen Quotes
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people. — Connie Nielsen
If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!' — David Mermin
A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, "You look very unhappy"; whereupon I answered fiercely, "How can one look happy when he is thinking about the anomalous Zeeman effect?". — Wolfgang Pauli
I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations. — Deepika Padukone
Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians. — Alex Steffen
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments! — Niels Bohr
She was standing in the airport of Copenhagen, staring at a doorway, trying to figure out if it was (a) a bathroom and (b) what kind of bathroom it was. The door merely said H. Was she an H? Was H "hers"? It could just as easily be "his". Or "Helicopter Room: Not a Bathroom at All — Maureen Johnson
Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond. — Tom Verlaine
I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two days in Paris. 'What a Thrill.' He knows so much music, and he is the only person that I get the shakes trying to play my horn behind or with him (smile). However, it was a ball. — Ben Webster
We're competing against other great cities: Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo. That's why it's important that we all join together on the final path to Copenhagen. Having the support of President Obama is key. — Richard M. Daley
Norway Quotes
Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up. — Herman Melville
I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes. — Eva Green
What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I'm used to fat and hairy women journalists. — Diego Maradona
We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway. — Kjell Magne Bondevik
I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself. — Ike Turner
November always seemed to me the Norway of the year. — Emily Dickinson
I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family. — Grete Waitz
I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere. — Adolf Galland
We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled. — Jens Stoltenberg
Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it. — Erik Naggum
Danish Quotes
Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke. — Rene Redzepi
There is no pill for longevity or a fountain of youth. The Danish Twin Study established that only about 30% of how long the average person lives is dictated by our genes, the other 80% is dictated by our lifestyle and environment. — Dan Buettner
The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness. — Georg Brandes
I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime. — Timothy Garton Ash
He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish. — Georg Brandes
With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans. — Jay Inslee
We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money. — Fredrik Bajer
I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. — Virginia Madsen
Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it...was rather a continuous process of purification, and for me of simplification, to cut down to the simplest possible elements of four legs, a seat and combined top rail and arm rest. — Hans Wegner
American Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually wrapped in cellophane. Danish Danish is light, crisp, buttery and often tastes of marzipan or raisins; it is seldom wrapped in anything but loving care. — R. W. Apple, Jr.
Russia and Norway have a dispute over the Svalbard Islands, the northernmost point on earth with a settled population. Most countries recognize the islands as being under Norwegian sovereignty, but the biggest island has a growing population of Russian migrants who have assembled around the coal-mining industry there. The mines are not profitable, but the Russian community serves as a useful tool in furthering Moscow’s claims on the islands. Norway knows what is coming and has made the Arctic its foreign policy priority. Its air force regularly intercepts Russian fighter jets approaching its borders; the heightened tensions have caused it to move the center of military operations from the south to the north, and it is building an Arctic battalion. Canada and Denmark are expanding their Arctic military capabilities as well. — Tim Marshall
I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some players who played in Holland and they were a bit like the Dutch. — Simon Kuper
Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice. — Maya Lin
When I hear the word independent I reach for my revolver. At this point, what the hell does that mean? The English Patient is an independent film... Hootie and the Blowfish are alternative music. I'm the Queen of Denmark. I don't know what it means anymore. — Jim Jarmusch
The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as equals they made a point: we are integrating you into the Danish tradition of satire because you are part of our society, not strangers. The cartoons are including, rather than excluding, Muslims. — Flemming Rose
If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various points, the Germans as well. — David Petraeus
Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang "Tweet, tweet," and from his song came the whole story. — Hans Christian Andersen
I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world. — Paul Robeson
I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe. — Gore Vidal
Denmark (also called Norway) is best known as the original home of the prune Danish as well as the Vikings, who wore hats with horns sticking out of them, and for a very good reason: they were insane. — Dave Barry
We are being challenged by Islam these years. There are some things for which one should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction. — Margrethe II of Denmark
I travel Europe every couple of weeks. I just came back from London, Holland and Denmark. Every nation on this planet has its issues with race, and I am not sure if everyone has figured out how to deal with it. — Montel Williams
People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised, between Rome and Hamburg. — Giancarlo Esposito
I'd rather be voted "the sexiest man in Denmark" than "the ugliest man in Denmark". — Mads Mikkelsen
The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one. — James Surowiecki
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. — James Broughton
I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think. — Margrethe II of Denmark
I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age. — John Evelyn
And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction. — Margrethe II of Denmark
With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight. — Larry Holmes
The European Union's finished. It doesn't work. You know, we just had the honor in Britain of being the first country that rejected membership. You know, you could be next. It could be Denmark next. It could be Dexit. — Nigel Farage
I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live. — Margrethe II of Denmark
The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts. — Margrethe II of Denmark
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. — William Shakespeare
Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe. — Victor Pinchuk
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