Drammen - Most of the fresh fruit and vegetables from the tropic pass trough Drammen harbour. This is because the harbour is centraly placed in relation to the final destinations in Norway and Scandinavia as a whole.
Grenland Port Authority - One of the most important ports in Norway, with the local industry as its solid mooring point.
Flåm havn (Port of Flam) - Aurland, Flåm, Undredal and Gudvangen cruise harbours innermost in the Sognefjord, Norway. Site includes map, ship arrivals, information and images.
Sola Havn AS - Operator for public harbors in Sola Municipality.
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Ports Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Ports
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Ports "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Ports
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ports "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Ports
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Ports When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Ports
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Ports "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Ports
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Ports If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Ports
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Ports Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Ports
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Ports We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Ports
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Ports Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Ports
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Ports Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Ports
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Ports "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Ports
