Orts #857

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.
     — Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)


I only get carsick on boats.
     — Jon Voight, as Joe Buck in Midnight Cowboy (1969)


If pregnancy were a book they would cut out the last two chapters.
     — Nora Ephron (1941-2012)


To me, life is tough enough without having someone kick you from the inside.
     — Rita Rudner (1953-  )


There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
     — Beverly Sills (1929-2007)
 

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...we should have more people from Norway.
     — the Ultra-Deplorable Covfefe-in-Chief, Thursday Jan.11, 2018

895 people emigrated from the U.S. to Norway in 2016, while only 502 went the other way (leaving universal health care, gun control, a higher standard of living and longer life expectancy behind).
   From pretty much everywhere else, Trump on Friday [Jan.12] found he'd finally built a wall—a wall of contempt for how his mind works.
     — Mitch Potter, in an article A sorry America voices what Trump will not, Toronto Star, Saturday Jan.13, 2018

Norwegians in general have such a minority complex that as long as we are noticed we get very excited. But in general we are not wanting to be flattered by this U.S. president in this way.
     — Hilde Restad, quoted in an article, President's 'racist' remarks creates [sic] furor around globe, by Samantha Schmidt, Toronto Star, Jan.13, 2018