Oulu Quotes

#1. I saw an advertisement to work for a Swedish institute in Karachi in Pakistan. I had just been offered a permanent assignment, teaching in Oulu. But I felt, 'My God, I am not going to stay here forever.' You know why? Because I was following international events.

Martti Ahtisaari

#2. Arm yourself with wisdom,
arm yourself with knowledge;
folly is a fierce lion roaming the streets.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#3. To live among friends is the primary essential of happiness.

Lord Kelvin

#4. I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.

David Mitchell

#5. Soraya-joon, I have done all that I could. Do not be sorry for us. Your mother and I await you upon your return. We love you more than we have loved life. After your dear brother name your first son. Live here if you like, but if you sell it take no less than one hundred thousand dollars. ~Bawbaw

Andre Dubus III

#6. Until you can ladder your way down from a change idea to a specific behavior, you're not ready to lead a switch.

Chip Heath

#7. If we lose a game, I change up what I did that day, like if I eat something that day I will not eat the same thing again the next game day.

Kliff Kingsbury

#8. People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

William Gibson

#9. It's very important to try to inculcate into children moral rules, such as "do as you would be done by."

Richard Dawkins

#10. Some people in this life really enjoy being sent up and Nicholas Parsons is one of them because he's a sadomasochist.

Derek Nimmo

#11. Luckily the god of How-Did-Children-Survive-in-the-Seventies was looking out for us

Jenny Lawson

#12. The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

Gaylord Nelson

#13. I don't have a dayjob or anything. And then, winter's [makes it] hard to do anything.

Spencer Krug

#14. If there were a Mount Rushmore of American humor, Terry Southern would be the mountain they'd carve it from

Michael O'Donoghue

#15. The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the organization's purpose.

Stephen Covey

#16. Out of fifty mathematical papers presented in brief at such a meeting, it is a rare mathematician indeed who really understands what more than half a dozen are about.

E. T. Bell