Finlandia Quotes

#1. As for national greatness: It is probably true that all nations are great and even holy at the time of death. The Biafrans had never fought before. They fought well this time. They will never fight again. They will never play Finlandia on an ancient marimba again. Peace.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#2. My dad was president of the Finlandia Foundation for a number of years and there was a period of time when he tried to get me in. I'm glad I finally got in.

Jorma Kaukonen

#3. In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.

Rosamund Pike

#4. Rules, after all, are only made so you can work around them

Chetan Bhagat

#5. I think I matured quite early, but what that does mean is I have moments of complete immaturity. When I come home, I don't want to be an actor. I just want to be a kid. I barely even know what money is.

Dakota Blue Richards

#6. You can say things which cannot be done. This is elementary. The trick is to keep attention focused on what is said and not on what can be done.

Frank Herbert

#7. Among the mysteries of the creative ego is how the transcendence of what artists do is their own response to the darkness of who they are, and the same personal darkness that is at odds with the art is what propels artists to the light of what they create.

Steve Erickson

#8. There they are. Lieutenant Jack Loveday and Lieutenant Alex Wakeman. I've only seen their photos so far and the pictures that are in Demos's head, but the truth is Demos did not do them justice. In fact, Demos's head needs a tune up or a reboot or an entirely new operating system altogether.

Sarah Alderson

#9. Stairs. This is Hell. Hell is stairs, was all Theo could think. I'd sell my soul for a goddamn elevator.
But I don't have a soul, do I? I'm some kind of fairy.
Okay, settle for an escalator, then.

Tad Williams

#10. Please note that, at no point in the performance, does my hand leave the end of my arm ...

Harlan Tarbell

#11. It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.

Nancy Gibbs

#12. I am not the potter, nor the potter's wheel, but the potter's clay, does it depend on the value achieved intrinsic as much as the value of the clay as the wheel and master craftsmanship?

Stephen King