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I have always worked hard, and seeing so many Icelanders make tremendous efforts to cope with difficult tasks and decisions inspires me.
When you have seen the whole world, the old words said, there is always Greenland left.
Sherry is clearly from Iceland because it is not that warm out,
I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.
Ireland?" "Small wet place across the Irish Sea," Barry offered kindly. "Where they drink a lot?" Lisa said faintly. "And they never stop talking. That's the place.
Wales! Where the men are men and the sheep are scared!
I want people to laugh with me and Paraguay and Newfoundland, but I don't want to laugh at them. I hope in my books at the end of the day you come across with the impression that I really admire both of these places.
Throughout the history of Iceland, men have been lost at sea; every family in Iceland is connected to that kind of story.
Did you know there's probably more golf played in Iceland than most places in the world? They play 24 hours a day in the summertime and the northern part is warmer than the southern part.
I'm amazed to find those countries are in Europe.
[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage ...
I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.
Okay Libya ... got all this stuff twirling around in my head
Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm.
They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did it willy-nilly, and they themselves a story, that Icelandic history and culture and DNA leaves us very well-suited to being investment bankers.
Argentina and Burma. I have been to most of the countries in the world, but not those two. I want to shoot doves in Argentina. Burma, of course, because no one has really been there.
Like there's actually a need for Greenland. You can get ice at 7-Eleven.
Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.
England ... the greatest and the most glorious and beautiful land on earth.
In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.
Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.
I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.
Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
You forget, when you're in the Scandinavian countries, you forget they don't speak English first and they speak better than I do.
Micronesia. "It was near Guam," Steve Blauner says. "A guy that sick to
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
Denmark (also called Norway) is best known as the original home of the prune Danish as well as the Vikings, who wore hats with horns sticking out of them, and for a very good reason: they were insane.
I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.
During World War II, Iceland was a poor country with a total population of about 120,000 people. In contrast, the occupying U.S. force consisted of roughly 40,000 men - which meant that U.S. soldiers outnumbered adult Icelandic men - at least during the height of the occupation.
My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.
In 2010, Iceland - with a lesbian prime minister and a parliament that is 50 percent female - became the first country in the world to outlaw strip clubs for feminist, rather than religious, reasons. I
Eustatius in the Caribbean. At present, there was powder
Where the hell is Australia anyway?
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.
What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I'm used to fat and hairy women journalists.
Canada, or as i call them, America Light.
I was just asking Chad [Myers], how can you get a volcano in Iceland? Isn't it too- when you think of a volcano, you think of Hawaii and long words like that. You don't think of Iceland.You think it's too cold to have a volcano there.
If conditions along the eastern coast are right, you can actually see Iceland floating on the distant horizon.
I love Sweden. In Sweden, the women are just so hot. Their vibe is so amazing. You feel like every girl out there was genetically altered to just be hot. I did not see one ugly woman out there, it was just a line of continuously hot girls.
Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it
The countryside they
Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.
When I was a punk teenager, I rebelled because lots of people in Iceland think that foreigners are evil and that if you don't wear woolen hats and eat sheep, you're betraying your heritage.
We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.
A webcam that Iceland's environmental agency had set up.
No country. is as harsh as the world.
Denmark's a prison.
We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and its barbaric whaling industry ... and we urge the President to take similar action against Japan and Norway as well!
England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots ...
I've done so much travelling in the past few years, and when you travel, you realise that we do actually have a cool, clean look in Scandinavia - it's not just Denmark - which I think brings peace if you have it in your home.
I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.
What was a country but the idea of it?
us - I looked at that beautiful snow-capped mountain and named it Eliza. Because it was warm, fertile, and beautiful below, while being a bit frosty and inaccessible at the top - yet possessing a volcanick profile foretelling explosions -
One of the cool, chaste countries - Canada or Sweden.
From Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand,
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand;
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
Their land from error's chain.
Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.
You don't have to go very far away from Scandinavia to realize what an idyllic society it is.
I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
The country is an archipelago of lakes,
the lake-country of New England.
South Africa, it's like the little asshole of the whole world - it's, like, the bottom. It's, like, in the dark depths of the hallway.
Mexico, Norway, China, Germany, Italy, America, Japan, Morocco, France, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet.
Scandinavians are not only the happiest and most contented people in the world, but also the most peaceful, tolerant, egalitarian, progressive, prosperous, liberal, and technologically advanced.
Blissful Islands
Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.
The current coastline of Labrador, or Norway, or for that matter southern Chile. Elsewhere on the map, western Antarctica was an archipelago somewhat resembling the Philippines.
Spain, the country for castles in the air!" I
Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language.
Flemming Axmark, and Preben Hansen. The Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Copenhagen: Nordisk
I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything for you.
I'm seldom restricted by anything because I don't know how to restrict myself. It's a blessing and a curse. I feel a lot of support from people in Iceland, especially from people that are content with themselves and their life.
Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?
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.
I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.
Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.
A country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.
There is this stereotype of Icelanders all believing in spirits, and I've played up to that a bit in interviews.
My Invented Country; it resembles a heart-shaped paradise.
I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.
my country is the world
I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.
Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland.
There's no-one up there in Northern Norway , food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.
Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate.
We shot 'Oblivion' in Iceland; that was amazing. It's so, so beautiful. They didn't have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere!
In Northern Ireland, I truly, effortlessly, knew who I was. I knew where I belonged. I felt completely and utterly secure.
Icelandic peoples were the ones who memorized sagas ... We were the first rappers of Europe.
Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.
I don't know why you're talking about Sweden. They're the neutral one. They don't have an army.
Come on, I'm from Iceland; I don't do hip-hop.
I locate Essential Spain at last - the cruel winds, the grinding poverty, the unforgiving landscape. It could be Wales.
How are you finding our country?" "It's a magical place," Nina gushed. If you like ice and more ice.
In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings.
I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.
United States: the country where liberty is a statue.
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)
I can't say enough about Ireland. I can't. I'd move there.
Siberia is a state of mind.