Best 7 quotes of Lisa Halliday on MyQuotes

den [musikken, red.] fik hende også til at ville elske, at underkaste sig kærligheden fra et andet menneske så dybt og inderligt, at spørgsmålet om, hvorvidt hun spildte sit liv, overhovedet ikke kunne komme på tale, for hvad kunne være mere ædelt end at hellige sit liv et andet menneskes lykke og tilfredsstillelse?

I once heard a filmmaker say that in order to be truly creative a person must be in possession of four things: irony, melancholy, a sense of competition, and boredom.

I pointed out that the very proliferation of pseudo journalism these days, the cacophony of conjecture and partisan agendas and sensationalism that seem orchestrated above all to provoke and entertain, tended to leave me feeling as though I know less than ever what my government is doing in my name. Drinking, Alistair shrugged and nodded as if to concede: Yes, well, there's always the moronic inferno.

The word for bank is the same, but the word for money changer is not, and while I have never learned the etymology behind this minor asymmetry I can imagine it represents centuries of cultural and ideological dissidence.

Vores minder er ikke mere pålidelige end vores fantasi, når det kommer til stykket.

Ydmyghed og tavshed er trods alt at foretrække frem for uvidenhed og arrogance.

Your problem with religion is virtually every faithless person's problem with religion: that it offers irreducible answers. But some questions in the end simply aren't empirically verifiable...All religion really does is to be honest about this, by giving the reliance a specific name: faith.