Riikka Pulkkinen Quotes

#1. It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the 20th century were insane and just morons.

Chuck Klosterman

#2. School can become a temple of learning only when the student, the guardian, and the society, in harmony, endeavor to make it a place of pursuit for education, a sadhana; where the spring of punctuality, sanctity and thirst for knowledge flows.

Narendra Modi

#3. There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

Gene Simmons

#4. People were endlessly good, wise, and gentle in the midst of all the hurry, the conferences, the dinner invitations, the smell of disinfectant, the meeting reminders.

Riikka Pulkkinen

#5. What mattered was writing it: the act of words.

Rose Tremain

#6. It was as if even the changes had a rhythm to them, bringing you back to the place you started only the second time around you were stronger and wiser.

Karen White

#7. To some of us the humiliation of failure seems to open a wide gulf between God and us. We imagine that God turns away from us in disgust. What I discovered was that failure could be a bridge across the chasm that pride had created.

James Martin

#8. It is the '94 race which in many ways allowed Ted Kennedy to become his own man rather than the 'third brother.' He had to reach down and win it on his own.

Chuck Todd

#9. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

#10. If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.

Fernando Pessoa

#11. When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

David Duchovny

#12. Beyond the slumpstone wall lay a backyard, a swimming pool. Dappled with morning light and tree shadows, the water glimmered in shades of blue from sapphire to turquoise, as might a trove of jewels left by long-dead pirates who had sailed a sea since vanished.

Dean Koontz

#13. We can't calm waves, but we can steer the ship.

Hayley Long

#14. The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.

Frank Miller