Quotes by Icelandic authors
Like every other player, I want to play.
Gylfi Sigurdsson
Icelandic soccer player
I do not regret it and I really enjoyed my time at Spurs. I improved a lot playing with big players.
Gylfi Sigurdsson
Icelandic soccer player
The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective.
Magnus Scheving
Icelandic athlete
Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
Magnus Scheving
Icelandic athlete
We will work on ways to digitally enhance Everest, matching it with Dolomites and Everest, but I'll do everything physically first. If there's no other way, then I'll go to CGI.
Baltasar Kormakur
Icelandic actor
Even when I was studying piano, I always preferred to play around with my own improvisations rather than do my studies. So I've always been interested in writing music from a very early age.
Johann Johannsson
Icelandic composer
Designers were saying to me that they didn't have a place to sell their special pieces from the runway.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
Icelandic businesswoman
I'm the kind of a guy that if I go into something, I go all in.
Hafthor Bjornsson
Icelandic strongman
The deadlift is the single best exercise.
Hafthor Bjornsson
Icelandic strongman
Everything is expensive in Iceland, especially food, and especially healthy food.
Hafthor Bjornsson
Icelandic strongman
I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.
Baltasar Kormakur
Icelandic actor
If you get a few successive games you are going to get in to your stride and once you start playing more you get more confidence and then you can push on.
Gylfi Sigurdsson
Icelandic soccer player
If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
Baltasar Kormakur
Icelandic actor
The Icesave matter is complex and it is understandable that the issue has been oversimplified by many. Unfortunately some of the basic facts of the matter have been unilaterally interpreted, and sometimes distorted, giving rise to unjustified criticism of the conduct of the Icelandic authorities.
Johanna Siguroardottir
Former Prime Minister of Iceland
Part of the budget should be used to purchase the items that you really need, such as a new coat or boots. Part of the budget should then be set aside to buy things you fall in love with and can't live without.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
Icelandic businesswoman
There are some stunning visual moments in 'Arrival' that are out of this world, but it's all on the earth, and it's about an academic, a woman that is dealing with a personal tragedy, but there's a circular view of time that makes things more complicated.
Johann Johannsson
Icelandic composer
I'd rather play golf than go on to Wikipedia!
Gylfi Sigurdsson
Icelandic soccer player
I just wanted to play football and didn't get the chance in Germany in my second season there.
Gylfi Sigurdsson
Icelandic soccer player
I believe that things can be expressed very powerfully through simplicity.
Johann Johannsson
Icelandic composer
Joker' is, of course, a character of my generation grew up with, and it's a character you know really well and have strong opinions about. He's been a larger-than-life character in fiction. He's one of these rare characters that have had such strong performances.
Hildur Gudnadottir
Icelandic musician
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