I was mortified that she disappeared before me, sitting at her writing desk, surrounded by classical music. A cerut in hand and a glass of whisky within reach.
I can’t give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do ‘em all together, I guess.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
It is better to be one of those who sometimes go wrong than one of those who do not go at all.
Everything sounds deep when you don’t read books.
Sometimes, the wrong train takes you to the right station.
They say it’s the white man I should fear, but it’s my own kind doing all the killing here.
Throughout my life, the message and teachings of Christ have been my guide and in them I find hope. It is my heartfelt prayer that you will continue to be sustained by your faith in times of trial and encouraged by hope in times of despair.
The women’s struggle today is an individual struggle (…) You can’t demand equal pay if you also want to have a long maternity leave, stay at home when they are sick and be there primarily for the children.
I only earn 11 kroner per trip I sell, but it also becomes a part when I sell a million trips a year.
Courage is knowing it might hurt, and doing it anyway.
Stupidity is the same.
And that’s why life is hard.
Those who have never made a mistake have never tried anything new.
Why fall in love, when you can fall asleep
When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed has come true a hundred times…I learned very early in life that: ‘Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain’t got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend – without a song.’ So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.
We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm.
At my age, you think about the afterlife. I’m mostly inclined to think there’s nothing there, but sometimes I can’t help but let my imagination run wild. My good friend Ulla Steen says she believes that all of us who like each other meet in the big angel bar where we are expected. I see myself arriving at the angel bar, and there’s my father, my husband and my son, and one of them says: “There’s Lise. Now we are four again for a l’hombre.
Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
I like Danish humour – I just wish you had more of it.
If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?
The more you grow, the more you realize that nothing is more important than sleep.
Don’t prepare the path for the child, prepare the child for the path.
I’m not wise, but the beginnings of wisdom are there; it’s like relaxing into – and accepting – things.
All footballers are motivated by money – those who say otherwise are lying.
You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.