“When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the one the client will employ. I provide them with a head that is good enough, placed on a body they want. [...] The world is full of people who pay serious money for bad pictures by good artists. And mediocre heads on tall bodies.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from Headhunters
“An artist who maintains that he has been misunderstood is almost always a bad artist who, I’m afraid to say, has been understood.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from Headhunters
“They had studied law, information technology and art history as part of their beauty treatment, they had let Norwegian taxpayers finance years at university just so that they could end up as overqualified, stay-at-home playthings and sit here exchanging confidences about how to keep their sugar daddies suitably happy, suitably jealous and suitably on their toes.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from Headhunters
“most likely because the majority of the receptionists have gone home, to a sick partner according to statistics, in the country with the shortest working hours in the world, the biggest health budget and the highest proportion of sick leave.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from Headhunters
“that it was impossible to get rid of it without”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from Headhunters
“We all drink according to how thirsty we are’.”
― Jo Nesbø, quote from Headhunters
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Born place: in Oslo, Norway
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“God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from Lady Windermere's Fan
“You can exercise your authority as a
believer because you are seated with Jesus in the heavenly places.”
― Pedro Okoro, quote from The Ultimate Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Learn to Fight from Victory, Not for Victory!
“I think magic went out when people began to have steam-engines, and newspapers, and telephones and wireless telegraphing.”
― E. Nesbit, quote from The Enchanted Castle
“أريد أن أعرف كيف حالك ، فأحنى رأسه و تفكر ثم فتح قلبه لي و قال يا أمي أنا لا أستطيع العيش مع امرأة لا لم تملك مفتاحاً لعقلي و لا تشاركني اهتماماتي ، إنها لا تقرأ شيئا و لا تريد أن تقرأ ، لا تهتم بمشاكل اليوم و تسألني رأيي في مفرش جديد طرّزته ، نحن نعيش في أيام عصيبة و لا يصح اليوم أن يقصر الإنسان اهتمامه على بيته و وظيفته ، و لا يفكر إلا في حياته الخاصة . أحتاج إلى شريكة أسكن إليها واثقاً من تعاطفها معي ، أصدقها عندما ترى أني أخطأت ، تزيدني قوة عندما تقول إني على حق ، شريكة أحبها و تحبني بدورها .”
― Ahdaf Soueif, quote from The Map of Love
“Bravurní kousek Mosadu způsobil zlom v jeho vztazích se CIA a díky útlé brožurce , kterou půvabná Lucie půjčila milovanému Wiktorovi, získal pověst nejschopnější tajné služby na světě.”
― Michael Bar-Zohar, quote from Mossad
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