Snufkin Quotes

#1. You're an idiot," Snufkin said. "Or still worse, you're a story spoiler.

Tove Jansson

#2. Oh, dear me!" he lamented. "The raft has floated off and I suppose it's gone down that awful hole by now."
"Well, never mind. We're not on it," said Snufkin gaily. "What's a kettle here or there when you're out looking for a comet!

Tove Jansson

#3. The Hemulen, moaning piteously, thrust his nose into the sand. "This has gone too far!" he said. "Why can't a poor innocent botanist live his life in peace and quiet?"
"Life is not peaceful," said Snufkin, contentedly.

Tove Jansson

#4. The voice of the waves was now mixed with strange sounds; laughter, running feet and the clanging of great bells far out to sea. Snufkin lay still and listened. dreaming and remembering his trip round world. Soon I must set out again, he thought. But not yet.

Tove Jansson

#5. Moominpappa: "Tell us all that's happening out in the world!"
Snufkin: "Fuss and misery."
- from "Moomin and Family Life" comic strip

Tove Jansson

#6. I'm afraid we shall waste an awful lot of time."
"Don't worry," answered Snufkin, "we shall have wonderful dreams, and when we wake up it'll be spring.

Tove Jansson

#7. Men, we don't get much, as far as holidays go - Father's Day.

DMX

#8. The main thing in life is to know your own mind.

Tove Jansson

#9. It's oppressive ... It's food, it's clothing, it's all the magazines that come under the heading of things looking simple. Men's magazines don't seem to do this. They seem to be about things that are fun, not things you have to spend lots of hours on and then fail at.

Debora Spar

#10. Great! she thought. I died again and this is hell and there is a man in it.

Wm. Paul Young

#11. In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

Jeff Goodell

#12. For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

Whoopi Goldberg

#13. A man who has built a world empire with only ideas and with love, not with swords and with archers, is the greatest amongst all the men!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught.

Coco Chanel

#15. I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all this passion that wants to explode, but I don't know where to aim it yet.

Matt De La Pena

#16. Wine is fine. But whisky is quicker.

Hank Moody

#17. I think breeds of dogs and breeds of men are quite a bit alike. If you think it's insulting that I compare people with animals, well, if you knew how I love animals, you would understand that coming from me, this is a compliment.

Zsa Zsa Gabor