Quotes About Finnish

#1. To experience the northern forest in the raw, I went to northern Finland and Lapland, travelling on horseback, and sleeping on reindeer skins in the traditional open-fronted Finnish laavu. I ate elk heart, reindeer and lingonberries, and tried out spruce resin: the chewing gum of the Stone Age.

Michelle Paver

#2. The third aspect of change is a systematic development of respectful and inspiring working conditions for teachers and principals in Finnish schools.

Pasi Sahlberg

#3. And a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. (Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own.)

Susan Cain

#5. A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

Gertrude Stein

#6. A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.

Renny Harlin

#7. My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket neighborhood.

Michael Franti

#8. Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army

Joseph Stalin

#9. The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

Lafcadio Hearn

#10. We ceased to deal seriously with mobile combat. We relegated to oblivion the fundamentals of combat-in-depth tactics and of combined arms maneuvers which had been widespread before the Finnish campaign.

Sergey Biryuzov

#11. Indeed, there is pain when spring buds burst..."
Wasn't there a Swedish poet who had said something like that? Or was she Finnish?

Jostein Gaarder

#12. You're an unemployed bum. Should you live in that Finnish city by the lake with the S-market and K-market? Or how about that other Finnish city by the lake with the S-market and K-market? Finnish cities are all so very different!

Phil Schwarzmann

#13. I thought of a great way to celebrate my Finnish heritage at home. I'm going to look into opening a chain of strip clubs, and I'll call them Lapland!!!

Pamela Anderson

#14. Tommy Wirkola is Norwegian but has a Finnish surname - he comes from the one of the northernmost countries in the whole of Europe. It was easy working with him. The people in the north are all fairly similar.

Pihla Viitala

#15. I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.

Harri Holkeri

#16. If you like fantasy and you want to be the next Tolkien, don't read big Tolkienesque fantasies - Tolkien didn't read big Tolkienesque fantasies, he read books on Finnish philology. Go and read outside of your comfort zone, go and learn stuff.

Neil Gaiman

#17. Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.

Paavo Haavikko

#18. Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.

Linus Torvalds

#19. You have to remember that Finnish people hate art.

Kati Outinen

#20. The Finnish way of dealing with Russia, whatever the situation, is that we will be very decisive to show what we don't like, where the red line is.

Sauli Niinisto

#21. It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women.

Toni Jerrman

#22. Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish.

Adolf Ivar Arwidsson

#23. In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.

Harri Holkeri

#24. It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#25. They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It's the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he doesn't have sisu, that's like spitting in his face.

Arthur Lydiard

#26. Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.

Hans Vestberg

#27. For her a day of pampering meant comic books, black liquorice, serious exercise, veggie curry and, above all, solitude.

Salla Simukka

#28. Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas (technical warrant officer trainee specialised in aircraft jet engines)

Tarja Moles

#29. Pearls' burst out the Snork Maiden excitedly. 'Could ankle rings be made out of pearls?'
'I should think they could,' said Moomintoll. 'Ankle-rings, and nose-rings and ear-rings and engagement rings ...

Tove Jansson

#30. It's only the sea,' said Moomintroll. 'Every wave that dies on the beach sings a little song to a shell. But you mustn't go inside because it's a labyrinth and you may never come out again.

Tove Jansson

#31. I'm writing to hold on to you.

Henriikka Tavi

#32. I was going into shock. The pain wasn't getting any better, and I thought that I would probably black out before I found out how this was going to end. Just as well - I was never particularly good at finishing things.

Joe Schreiber

#33. If you can't do it, just laugh about it instead of blushing or being embarrassed.

Auliq Ice