Top 533 Quotes & Sayings by Finnish Authors - Page 2

I grew up in Finland, so it's cold in Finland, we have ice rinks outdoors.

I love music, and that is what I care for, and that is what I deliver for people.

I focus on organic foods and I also don't eat any wheat or gluten.

Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.

Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.

I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul.

I'm quite discreet. I think I'd rather focus on my work. So, I only speak when I have something to say. 'Live hidden, and live happy.' Is that the same in English as it is in French?

I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area.

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

At LVMH, we have amazing heritage brands, and we put interesting talents in those brands, sometimes very young, like we did at Givenchy with Riccardo Tisci at the time, or like we just did with J.W. Anderson at Loewe, but also talents that are already further along in their careers, like Raf Simons at Christian Dior or Nicolas at Vuitton.

If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

But when you grow, you get older and I realized that I would prefer being with a girl.

I'm a workaholic. My listeners, I think, they know me as a workaholic already. But, you know, work is my love.

With F1, it's really a combination of many things. You have to have good endurance, good strength in certain muscles, you need to be fast, have good reactions and good decisions. It's not as simple as one thing. You need to be a complete athlete.

I will always keep my feet on the ground.

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.

Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say, Show us what you can do.

It is vital for me to make progress as a lyrical singer since it also helps me to sing rock better.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

My favourite team was always Barcelona. When I was young, I went to see them, my first ever big game. Jari Litmanen was playing there at the time. In Finland, Litmanen is a big hero for all of us.

I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.

I was in 'The Voice of Finland' in 2012 and my girlfriend - fiancee now - watched the show, liked me a lot and sent me a fan message through Facebook. She wrote, 'I have never, ever sent a message like this to anybody, but I just had this intuition that I have to send this to you.'

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

One makes a trip by day, but by night, one sets out on a journey.

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.

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.

I saw an advertisement to work for a Swedish institute in Karachi in Pakistan. I had just been offered a permanent assignment, teaching in Oulu. But I felt, 'My God, I am not going to stay here forever.' You know why? Because I was following international events.

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

I have found for me, and it should be the same for everybody, that it is easiest just to be how you are. Be the true you and there is no need to act differently. It has always been like that.

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

There are always interests that are furthered by war. Therefore, those who have power and influence can also stop them... we should not accept any excuses from those in power.

Every athlete, every person is individual.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

I have no superhuman powers. If people don't want to make peace, there is nothing I can do.

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

I am sure that everyone will immediately discover how much 'The Brightest Void' and 'The Shadow Self' are entwined with each other but, at the same time, are two independent records which stand on their own.

I was a judge on Finnish 'X Factor.' My girl won. So basically I'm quite successful as a judge.

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.

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.

All the questions, all the speculation, No. 2 driver and so on, it doesn't get to me. It doesn't matter.

I was scared to be myself because I love to be flamboyant.

I don't think I'd be healthy if I only were a heavy metal singer.

As a young guy I was really shy, more shy than I am now.

Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don't know what to expect from the music business.

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells. The result is millions of flexible combinations in which one never encounters the stereotyped.

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Obviously, that off-the-ice battle I went through, plus injuries I came back from, I always felt the fans are really knowledgeable there and respected and appreciated guys that gave whatever they had and guys that fought through things.

I was not a metal fan.

When I release my music I will text Sharon Osborne and ask her about my songs.

As I am a lyrical singer, I really have to work hard. I'm still really training on a daily basis on my vocals. Because of the lyrical training, it never really ends.

I'm doing 'Dancing on Ice' and I'm just exhausted.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

In open source, we feel strongly that to really do something well, you have to get a lot of people involved.

I'm now working with some of the best songwriters in the world and Sia has written a song that has been given to me. Oh my God, it's just insane.

Nothing's ever too fast. Maybe sometimes on the road some people are too fast if they don't know how to control the car, but in racing, the faster and more power and grip, the better it is.