Top Iceland Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Iceland quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Sjon
Now 10 percent of this population [in Iceland] of 330,000 people were born elsewhere - Polish, North Africans, Europeans, Americans - people are coming from all over. It is still changing society in a good way.
- Sjon
Collection: Iceland
Image of Birgitta Jonsdottir
Maybe [Iceland] could be sort of a testing ground for solutions because we are few and because we are really a tech-oriented nation. Everybody is a gadget freak. We spend a lot of time indoors.
- Birgitta Jonsdottir
Collection: Iceland
Image of Hannah Kent
I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.
- Hannah Kent
Collection: Iceland
Image of Ray LaHood
Public spending on infrastructure has fallen to its lowest level since 1947. And the U.S., which used to have the finest infrastructure in the world, is now ranked 16th according to the World Economic Forum, behind Iceland, Spain, Portugal and the United Arab Emirates.
- Ray LaHood
Collection: Iceland
Image of Roni Horn
After a few days [in Iceland] I tried to take a photograph. But with my attempt to distinguish the first shot, the place disappeared on me.... I hadn't been in Iceland long enough to simply be there.
- Roni Horn
Collection: Iceland
Image of Tomas Lemarquis
It's always good to see that someone can go out of Iceland and do some things.
- Tomas Lemarquis
Collection: Iceland
Image of Alan M. Taylor
A possibility is that we see more and more leverage, and credit-to-GDP ratios rise once more to even higher levels; eventually the banking systems of all advanced economies reach magnitudes of 500 percent, 1000 percent or more of GDP, so that every economy starts to have financial systems that resemble recent cases like Switzerland, Ireland, Iceland, or Cyprus. That might be a very fragile world to live in.
- Alan M. Taylor
Collection: Iceland
Image of Sachin Tendulkar
I really like Iceland. One of the nicest things about it is that I hardly ever had to reach for my credit card. There's practically nothing there to go shopping for.
- Sachin Tendulkar
Collection: Iceland
Image of Kevin Hearne
Icy glares from vampires are far icier than icy glares from people and when the vampire giving you an icy glare is originally from Iceland, you're confronted with the archetypal origin of the term, and you shouldn't be surprised if your core body temperature drops a few degrees.
- Kevin Hearne
Collection: Iceland
Image of Russell Crowe
Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.
- Russell Crowe
Collection: Iceland
Image of Eoin Colfer
Are you saying that you people knew about these amorophobots all the time?" "Of course we did. They attacked us in Iceland. Remember?" "No. I was unconscious.
- Eoin Colfer
Collection: Iceland
Image of Keith Henson
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
Collection: Iceland
Image of W. H. Auden
Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.
- W. H. Auden
Collection: Iceland
Image of Werner Herzog
I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.
- Werner Herzog
Collection: Iceland
Image of Philip Larkin
Depression hangs over me as if I were Iceland.
- Philip Larkin
Collection: Iceland
Image of James Lovelock
The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.
- James Lovelock
Collection: Iceland