Virtual Sortland - A clickwalk through the North Norwegian city Sortland. Learn the dialect, and amuse yourself.
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Sortland He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Sortland
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Sortland In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Sortland
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Sortland The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Sortland
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Sortland All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Sortland
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Sortland Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Sortland
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Sortland "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sortland
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Sortland It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Sortland
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Sortland Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Sortland
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Sortland I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Sortland
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Sortland I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Sortland
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Sortland What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Sortland
