Quotes of: Iceland Keyword

The problem with driving around Iceland is that you’re basically confronted by a new soul-enriching, breath-taking, life-affirming natural sight every five goddamn minutes. It’s totally exhausting.

Tales of Iceland or "Running with the Huldufólk in the Permanent Daylight"

I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I'm sorry, but this is n...

Mark Steyn

I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.

Ethan Zuckerman

When it comes to whaling, Iceland is an international outlaw. Years of global negotiations and declarations have failed utterly to end its illegal slaughter of whales. It's time to send Iceland a message it can't ignore: trade sanctions.

Pierce Brosnan

In any case, the goal is the same: to connect.

Fault Lines: Greenland – Iceland – Faroe Islands

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.

Bjork

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

Keith Henson

Maybe it's just a personal thing, but I get so much grounding from Iceland because I know it's always going to be there. I have a very happy, healthy relationship with the country, so it's really easy to go everywhere because I always have Iceland to...

Bjork

The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.

Brendan I. Koerner

Come on, I'm from Iceland; I don't do hip-hop.

Bjork

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

Bobby Fischer

I love hiking in Iceland most, there are lots of brilliant paths.

Bjork

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

Bjork

There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.

Bjork

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

Elliott Abrams

That we leave our homes, that we step through our doors to the world, that we travel our whole lives not because we want to collect exotic T-shirts, not because we want to consume foreign adventure the same Western way we consume plastic and Styrofoa...

Tales of Iceland or "Running with the Huldufólk in the Permanent Daylight"

I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

Hannah Kent

No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.

Stephen Kinzer

My sister and I visited Iceland in 2001, and I incorporated it into 'Pretty Little Liars.'

Sara Shepard

I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.

Bjork

Most people in Iceland are blonde and blue-eyed. I was nicknamed 'China girl' in school 'cos they thought I looked Asian.

Bjork