Magnus Larsson quote: "If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away and abandon your home and your life as you know it."

In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewh...
MAGNUS LARSSON

While designed to visually seduce, Dune is not primarily a formal exercise but a social, ecological,...
MAGNUS LARSSON

Rather than just mimic processes in nature, I think we can harness the powers of nature itself and a...
MAGNUS LARSSON

We're stuck in the concrete age. Concrete has really become this ever-present material that'...
MAGNUS LARSSON

I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications ...
MAGNUS LARSSON

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary cou...
MAGNUS LARSSON

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.
MAGNUS LARSSON

The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
MAGNUS LARSSON

I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to p...
MAGNUS LARSSON

How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
MAGNUS LARSSON

The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.
MAGNUS LARSSON

I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
MAGNUS LARSSON

With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.
MAGNUS LARSSON

Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts th...
MAGNUS LARSSON

One of the most obvious reasons to start using timber rather than concrete is that it's the one ...
MAGNUS LARSSON

One billion grains of sand come into existence in the world each second. That's a cyclical proce...
MAGNUS LARSSON

She's married. I'm more a friend and occasional lover.
STIEG LARSSON

When I was about nine or 10, I was on a few random talent shows in shopping malls.
ZARA LARSSON

Everybody wants attention, more or less. I just want a lot.
ZARA LARSSON

I don't really have a type. I don't want to be a cliche. But personality is a big thing for ...
ZARA LARSSON

Dear Government... I'm going to have a serious talk with you if I ever find anyone to talk to.
STIEG LARSSON

I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally ap...
STIEG LARSSON

Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a serious problem.
STIEG LARSSON

It's better to own the casino than being the gambler in the casino.
TINA LARSSON

She hardly ever began conversations with strangers just to talk. It was not a matter of shyness. For...
STIEG LARSSON

I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to ...
ASA LARSSON

Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?
STIEG LARSSON

I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage i...
STIEG LARSSON

...you have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove.
STIEG LARSSON

One of them is that a bastard is always a bastard and if I can hurt a bastard by digging up shit abo...
STIEG LARSSON

Everyone must have the right to change his mind. I've longed for the European championship all the t...
HENRIK LARSSON

It was the Greeks who coined the term Amazon. The word literally means “without breast”. It is s...
STIEG LARSSON

Friendship- my definition- is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there...
STIEG LARSSON

I wear jewellery that I never take off. I have a ring and two necklaces. I always have them on and g...
ZARA LARSSON

For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. ...
ZARA LARSSON

When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I thi...
ZARA LARSSON

I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sin...
ZARA LARSSON

The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
ZARA LARSSON

History is important but... I just wanna sing Beyonce songs all day long in front of a mirror.
ZARA LARSSON

My dream is to stand in front of 60,000 people in an arena and know that everyone came because they ...
ZARA LARSSON

Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go ...
ZARA LARSSON

I think life is a chain of events.
ZARA LARSSON

I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually bett...
STIEG LARSSON

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primari...
STIEG LARSSON

Every other basic right, such as the Formation of Government and the Right to Freedom of Organizatio...
STIEG LARSSON

She saw him drenched with gasoline. She could actually feel the box of matches in her hand.
STIEG LARSSON

The members of the congregation looked as though they’d just dropped in for a rest on the way to t...
ÅSA LARSSON

Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!
STIEG LARSSON

As a girl, she was a legal prey, especially if she was dressed in a worn black leather jacket and ha...
STIEG LARSSON

No, I don't believe in God, but I respect the fact that you do. Everyone has to have something to be...
STIEG LARSSON

It is my intention to stay on if I'm still playing at a high level.
HENRIK LARSSON

Even though I have made the definite decision to move home after the World Cup, I am fully concentra...
HENRIK LARSSON

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.
STIEG LARSSON

There is nothing to talk about" she said. "I'm just a freak that's all.
STIEG LARSSON

It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.
MAGNUS SCHEVING

My message with 'LazyTown' has always been really simple; I just want to get kids and famili...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different thi...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in ...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

I love doing crosswords, it's so important to keep the brain going.
MAGNUS MAGNUSSON

Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.
MAGNUS CARLSEN

It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
MAGNUS CARLSEN

We don't own the syndication rights to the ACC.
BURKE MAGNUS

It's a tough, tough issue that people could legitimately have different views about. The prudential ...
DAVID MAGNUS

To say insurance companies should pay for stuff that is completely unproven is asking a lot from ins...
DAVID MAGNUS

On the whole, it's a scary time in medical ethics because of consumer advertising. Leaving it up to ...
DAVID MAGNUS

They just nail the fire out of me every time they go up.
GEORGE MAGNUS

I love Spain for its landscapes and weather, so I am happy to make my debut at the Vuelta, ... I suf...
MAGNUS BACKSTEDT

It's not a question of either/or. There are certain elements of either strand of thought that have m...
MAGNUS RANSTORP

'Never Forget You' was the first song I co-wrote.
ZARA LARSSON

I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
ZARA LARSSON

I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh ...
ZARA LARSSON

If I have a day off, I'll get up at three in the afternoon and make some noodles. I fix my makeu...
ZARA LARSSON

I love eyebrows, so brow pencils and brow shadow are really important to me.
ZARA LARSSON

We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
ZARA LARSSON

We need to have a talk on the subject of what's yours and what's mine.
STIEG LARSSON

Kalle Fucking Blomkvist
STIEG LARSSON

In many respects I have gone out of my way to avoid the usual approach adopted in crime novels. I ha...
STIEG LARSSON

I can be a regular bitch. Just try me.
STIEG LARSSON

It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.
STIEG LARSSON

When I find the motherfucker who tortured an innocent cat to death just to send us a warning, I'm go...
STIEG LARSSON

What do you need me for? Salander's greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was...
STIEG LARSSON

Impulsive actions led to trouble, and trouble could have unpleasant consequences.
STIEG LARSSON

I don't think it's much to be horrified about.
BO LARSSON

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette W...
STIEG LARSSON

This is only halftime - we have to keep on our toes and do to the business at home. You have to be p...
HENRIK LARSSON

I am not angry or bitter about my situation regarding playing time in Barcelona. I am fully aware of...
HENRIK LARSSON

Stark raving mad.
STIEG LARSSON

When she came to her senses again she cut off all contact with him. It had not been easy, but she ha...
STIEG LARSSON

Ebrei, Rom e Celti hanno una cosa in comune: la loro cultura è sopravvissuta per migliaia di anni s...
BJöRN LARSSON

Being a homicide detective can be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upse...
STIEG LARSSON

I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits pe...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I ...
MAGNUS MAGNUSSON

I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
MAGNUS MAGNUSSON

I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first,...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intellige...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov&...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

Without the element of enjoyment, it is not worth trying to excel at anything.
MAGNUS CARLSEN

If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other peopl...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most importan...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhap...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwis...
MAGNUS FLYTE

I feel like there's a really deep and rabid fan base there that would take as much TV content as we'...
BURKE MAGNUS

Actually, we're ahead of schedule. We've done a pretty good job having DirecTV right out of the gate...
BURKE MAGNUS

Can they survive as a business? I don't know. That's not for me to say. From a product standpoint, m...
BURKE MAGNUS

We do want people to lobby their local cable operators. It's still a time-tested method of influenci...
BURKE MAGNUS

The worry is if you humanize them too much you cross certain boundaries. But I don't think this rese...
DAVID MAGNUS

It's not that journals need to be more careful. Institutions need to be set up so that we don't prod...
DAVID MAGNUS

Even the best guide you can ever have is the visual imagery on how you mix these things together,
MAGNUS RANSTORP

The state is in a real bind. It has to come up with a painless way of killing without physicians inv...
DAVID MAGNUS

Bin Laden is a totally multinational enterprise. He has tentacles and followers all around the world...
MAGNUS RANSDORP

I spend a lot of time over the winter on the track and this is a record that really appeals to me, ....
MAGNUS BACKSTEDT

There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People w...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young.
MAGNUS SCHEVING

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
MAGNUS MAGNUSSON

It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about mone...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.
MAGNUS CARLSEN

People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
MAGNUS CARLSEN

I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
MAGNUS CARLSEN

Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinki...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I g...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.
MAGNUS SCHEVING

Mums ask me how to get their husbands off the couch as well as asking me to marry them. But kids ask...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad bu...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is ba...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

This game, I know it was important to the conference to get these two schools to be a part of it. We...
BURKE MAGNUS

We are thrilled to be able to revive coverage of Midnight Madness as a television franchise in partn...
BURKE MAGNUS

I worry that we're learning the wrong lesson and that is to overhaul the peer-review process. In the...
DAVID MAGNUS

The judge can impose as high a fine as he likes.
MAGNUS BURROUGH

The parliament has the potential of getting seriously bogged down in a number of issues. It could ev...
MAGNUS RANSTORP

It really is a dream coming true, being on Billboard.
ZARA LARSSON

In the car on my way to the studio, I was listening to 'Where Are U Now' with Justin Bieber ...
ZARA LARSSON

I'm just waiting for the day when my songs aren't flying. Because I kind of believe in Murph...
ZARA LARSSON

I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'T...
ZARA LARSSON

I love to go all out - once I start doing my makeup, I kind of tend to do a lot of it. So like found...
ZARA LARSSON

You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much ...
STIEG LARSSON

Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack...
STIEG LARSSON

But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she w...
STIEG LARSSON

I don?t think it?s much to be horrified about.
BO LARSSON

Salander was an information junkie with a delinquent child's take on morals and ethics.
STIEG LARSSON

The media have the ability to attract the craziest people to call in perfectly absurd tips. Every ne...
STIEG LARSSON

Isn't it fascinating that Nazis always manage to adopt the word freedom?
STIEG LARSSON

It doesn't matter how good the enemy's weapons are. If he can't see you, he can't hit you. Cover, co...
STIEG LARSSON

Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set thin...
STIEG LARSSON

I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that ...
STIEG LARSSON

The northern part of Sweden is considered more isolated, not so sociable, not so educated, more unem...
ASA LARSSON

Era uimită că mai trăia. Constată că se simțea ciudat de indiferentă și că, de fapt, nu-i p...
STIEG LARSSON

I don't know whether there is any defense in the world capable of stopping him.
HENRIK LARSSON

It was time for me to return home.
HENRIK LARSSON

We bring out the best in each other. There's no limit to how good he can be, he's got great techniqu...
HENRIK LARSSON

We're just going to go out there to try and do our best to win.
HENRIK LARSSON

History is reticent about women who were common soldiers, who bore arms, belonged to regiments, and ...
STIEG LARSSON

Zalachenko...you're just an ordinary asshole who hates women.
STIEG LARSSON

We're not chasing returns. We try to eliminate risk and we believe that by doing so, the return will...
TINA LARSSON

To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
STIEG LARSSON

What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.
STIEG LARSSON

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of re...
ASA LARSSON

In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
ZARA LARSSON

When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so ...
ZARA LARSSON

I'm not even close to where I want to be; it's just a little mini step on the way. This is o...
ZARA LARSSON

I like to spend as much time with my friends and family as possible.
ZARA LARSSON

I don't think it's much to be horrified about. It is abundantly clear that this designer wants to cr...
BO LARSSON

There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility.
STIEG LARSSON

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often abou...
STIEG LARSSON

I don't think it's much to be horrified about. It is abundantly clear that this designer wants to cr...
BO LARSSON

Capitalists' wet dreams is to be involved in charity.
STIEG LARSSON

-Who knows about this?
-Just me, the police, the killer, and now you.
STIEG LARSSON

Then she sat as if paralyzed, thinking. She had never in her life felt such a longing. She wanted Mi...
STIEG LARSSON

Hey, you fucking creep, in this shithole! I've got a monopoly on that one.
STIEG LARSSON

He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by
desire for any other woman. ...
STIEG LARSSON

Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss hi...
STIEG LARSSON

Much stronger boys in her class soon learned that it could be quite unpleasant to fight with that sk...
STIEG LARSSON

I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead...
STIEG LARSSON

In the evening he went to the cinema to see "The Lord of the Rings", which he had never before had t...
STIEG LARSSON

It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried...
STIEG LARSSON

Sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they
really were a couple; sometim...
STIEG LARSSON

Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most co...
STIEG LARSSON

Could you imagine being from Siberia? Like, a small part of Russia, where it's like, 'When w...
ZARA LARSSON

The same source that tipped us off about her and Wu at Kvarnen says that she used to hang out with a...
STIEG LARSSON

If I'm not playing at a high level then I won't be in the national team.
HENRIK LARSSON

No, she did not want to go to hospital. Yes, she would like a cup of tea. Only then did she begin to...
STIEG LARSSON

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't....
MAGNUS CARLSEN

You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flex...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

When I was a little kid growing up in Iceland, I always dreamed about creating something that could ...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way ...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should...
MAGNUS MAGNUSSON

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
MAGNUS CARLSEN

Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only t...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In...
MAGNUS CARLSEN

Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I...
MAGNUS SCHEVING

Health is never going to go out of fashion.
MAGNUS SCHEVING

Our job is to put on the best possible service and make it available through cable to fans. We don't...
BURKE MAGNUS

From a general sense, there's certainly more than enough product out there for more than one network...
BURKE MAGNUS

Think beyond the situation, its a facade against your success.
STEPHEN MAGNUS

They are really training for specific missions, ... And it's weeding out the elite of the elite, the...
MAGNUS RANSTORP

Identifying the roles of different contributors is important. What does it mean that someone is list...
DAVID MAGNUS

It's certainly disappointing that we're back to where we were. But it's not a disaster.
DAVID MAGNUS

The city was in a panic, though a panic in Italy means most people still stand around coffee bars dr...
MAGNUS FLYTE

If you dont understand the MOTIVE, don't judge the means!
STEPHEN MAGNUS

Idea is an introduction to creativity that gives birth to reality.
STEPHEN MAGNUS

If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away and abandon your home and your life as you know it.

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If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away and abandon your home and your life as you know it.

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