Quotes About Helsinki

#1. Other CEOs were shown fly-fishing in Scottish rivers or piloting their own Learjets into Helsinki. Mr. Hosokawa was photographed at home in the leather chair he sat in when he listened, a Nansei EX-12 stereo system behind him.

Ann Patchett

#2. If we were to have a presidential election in Europe it would be an event that would spark a huge interest in people from Lisbon to Helsinki, just like national elections. And it would create a completely different political setting in Europe.

Wolfgang Schauble

#3. Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki

Nigel Starmer-Smith

#4. I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

Linus Torvalds

#5. If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A. and to describe that journey, those 17 years with the philharmonic and building the hall and this and that, I would have said, "This is a fairy tale of the first order."

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#6. Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.

Linus Torvalds

#7. Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

Linus Torvalds

#8. Researchers at the University Hospital in Helsinki Finland said that if Barbie were a real person, she'd lack the 17-22% body fat required to menstruate.

Habib Sadeghi

#9. To me, Helsinki is one big movie studio.

Kati Outinen

#10. Are you really going to go all the way to Helsinki to see her without getting in touch first? All the way across the Arctic Circle?" "Is that too weird?" She laughed. " 'Bold' is the word I'd use for it." "I feel like things will work out better that way. Just intuition, of course.

Haruki Murakami

#11. It is a human tendency to
become what you attack.

Scott Adams

#12. It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their Personal Legend is.

Paulo Coelho

#13. Falderson," he said quietly to Bahzell in passable Navahkan, "is as stupid as the day is long." He craned his neck to gaze up at the hradani and shook his head. "In fact, he's even stupider than I thought. You, sir, are the biggest damned hradani-no offense-I think I've ever seen.

David Weber

#14. Oh, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes,
And with a virtuous vizard hide foul guile!
He is my son; yea, and therein my shame;
Yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit.

William Shakespeare

#15. If people say they just love the smell of books, I always want to pull them aside and ask; To be clear, do you know how reading works?

Unknown

#16. The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

Idries Shah

#17. FEAR is "False Expectation Appearing Real". It creates dangers where there are none and holds you back from getting things done.

R.v.m.

#18. That's the whole spiritual life. It's learning how to die. And as you learn how to die, you start losing all your illusions, and you start being capable now of true intimacy and love.

Eugene H. Peterson

#19. There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief ... is the weight of a sleeping child.

Anne Michaels