Top 533 Quotes & Sayings by Finnish Authors - Page 6

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

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.

Although I feel very French, a part of my heart is in the States. When my brother and I arrived, we didn't really speak any English, and when we left, that's all we spoke when we played together. It was just a beautiful place to grow up.

I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.

The atmosphere in Britain is so supportive. People are so friendly and positive. I feel accepted here.

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed.

I saw Lotus F1 racing as the best choice for me to progress my career, after considering several other options that were available to me.

I always try not to read anything of people talking about me, but of course you can still feel pressure at the stadium, during the games, if you don't play well.

They haven't had 'The X Factor' in Finland for ten years. But because I was on it and it was such a hit, they decided to bring it back and have me as a judge.

Since many years, I realized that I have a darker side in me, even though I still believe I'm a very positive person. But still, there is still darkness that makes me write music and create in general, and it affects everything that I do. I believe it's a beautiful darkness.

I'm happy, I'm healthy, I am not looking backwards - I'm only heading towards some kind of dreams of mine and living my dreams.

We want it to be sunny. Something small and intimate because my work is so public. That would be good for me, but my partner wants to have a big wedding.

There are many people around me, supporting me. There are always ups and downs, and you can really see the true support quite easily.

Every time I sit down in front of my piano, I like to improvise with the instrument. It depends on my mood of that day what kind of melodies and rhythms I am playing around. Sometimes, even before starting to play I already have a quite clear picture of a song I would like to compose, or at least the sound of it.

You never know what's going to happen in football.

I haven't made any targets of how many goals I want to score, because I just want to help the team.

Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.

I like to think that I've been a good manager. That fact has been very instrumental in making Linux a successful product.

I learned a lot about how to shoot and how to put together sequences.

I have sung at Christmas many times in Finland, especially in churches.

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

I've always had a big bum.

It is always nice to get your first goal of the season.

I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.

I just love the American spirit of racing. It feels just great to get involved with that.

Feelings don't lie.

Music really makes you keep your feet on the ground. People can really see if you're honest. That is the truth, they really can see through you.

My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.

I'm delighted to be coming back to Formula 1 after a two-year break, and I'm grateful to Lotus Renault GP for offering me this opportunity.

I have my values and I always stick with them.

Until the governments don't have a clear law against piracy and the digital downloads are not working worldwide properly, the record industry will keep on suffering.

We Finns don't show much emotion but it doesn't mean we don't have any.

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

Every year you learn as a person, about yourself, what works for you and what doesn't.

Danger is part of my job. It's always there, but you can't think about it too much otherwise you start to be too slow.

I wake up usually quite late, just in time for the lunch, especially if I sleep badly during the night.

My approach to the race is definitely just trying to win the race.

I've always been a huge reggae fan.

Mummy weighed sweets and nuts so that everyone would get exactly the same amount. During the year, everything is measured roughly, but at Christmas, it has to be absolutely fair. That's why it's such a strenuous time.

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new.

I get the biggest enjoyment from the random and unexpected places. Linux on cellphones or refrigerators, just because it's so not what I envisioned it. Or on supercomputers.

You dream about winning since a kid and when you get that first win it took some time to realise it. But once I realised it, it was so cool.

At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film.

Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

I have a passion for modern and contemporary art. I spend a lot of time in museums; I particularly like the Guggenheim, MoMA in New York or LACMA and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, for example. I cannot wait for the Louis Vuitton Foundation to open.

I mean, being a solo artist is very different than being a member of a band. It's absolutely different. The whole situation is very different - situations where you can't really compare, it's so very different. But I found happiness.

Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

We go to church every year on Christmas morning.

I like to keep the big dynamic changes between my songs, so that album songs feel radically different from each other.

Normally I tell the truth whether it's nice or not.

You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

I came second in 'The Voice of Finland' in 2012 and my career really exploded at home. I had 300 gigs a year.