Perhonen Finnish Quotes

#1. The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.

George Saunders

#2. Arafat rejected the deal because, as a dictator who had directed all his energies toward strengthening the Palestinians hatred toward Israel, Arafat could not afford to make peace.

Natan Sharansky

#3. good design...is intelligence made visible";

Zena O'Connor

#4. My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour for RCA. Then she made the mistake of marrying me. The next year, another tour, but the third year, she had Mario and said, 'Either I'm a mother or a singer.'

Sirio Maccioni

#5. My fans were the ones who discovered me on YouTube. I don't ever want to forget that.

Tori Kelly

#6. In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.

George Weah

#7. I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp.

Louis Gossett Jr.

#8. Do not hope for too much. But do not settle for too little.

Howard Jacobson

#9. My main horn is a hybrid of a flugelhorn a coronet and a trumpet, but that's really because, for me, each instrument to me had a different voice, and I liked them all, but I didn't like any one of them singularly.

Christian Scott

#10. The peaks sat in judgement over the town, reminding us humans just how insignificant and temporary we were.

Joss Stirling

#11. The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

Ray Bradbury

#12. I asked him at the clambake in 2001, at the writers' retreat Xanadu, what he'd done during the war, which he called 'civilization's second unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide,

Kurt Vonnegut