Top 533 Quotes & Sayings by Finnish Authors - Page 9

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.

Maybe there is something wrong with me as I don't feel any pressure or fear.

There's always a lot of talk about motivation to race, but nobody really knows what I do or what I think apart from myself, so I don't really care what people think.

Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again.

If I have a bad game I go home and see my daughter and I don't think about the bad game anymore.

Improving, for me, is quite natural as I'm always critical of myself.

I was with Nightwish for such a long time that I still feel the band as a part of myself. I was one of the most important elements in Nightwish for nine years, and the band was an essential part of myself too.

I've continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works - you still have to have that crazy determination.

I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

I can be very competitive, but I mainly want to challenge myself.

It was not so easy for me in Scotland in general.

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.

You never know. One point can make a difference in the end.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

I'm lucky that it's about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I don't know what I would have done.

Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results.

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

Any program is only as good as it is useful.

I write a song for myself because I need to come out with that particular song.

It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

I wanted to go somewhere I could be more part of the team and where the coach really trusts me. At Schalke it wasn't really like that.

All that I am, I am because of my mind.

For me, it's just me trying to be the best me I can be inside and outside of the car.

Daniel Farke is so good, a man-manager - he is calm but he can shout if he thinks I'm not working.

In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.

Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has always been.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

I think Finns in general, we are quite calm and I think we're mentally in general quite strong, and we don't mind to be alone. We are lonely wolves, a lot of us.

It's not easy to be a footballer.

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

I think it's mainly the language barrier and the cultural barrier, but of course also my songs, they have been very serious and melancholic, and so maybe people need to see more of my bubbly side and my personality.

This song is by Bjork called 'Oh So Quiet' and it's really different. I'll be screaming and just having fun on stage. It's really, really different but I'm very excited to do that number.

The task of the mediator is to help the parties to open difficult issues and nudge them forward in the peace process. The mediator's role combines those of a ship's pilot, consulting medical doctor, midwife and teacher.

I have great memories of playing in the Champions League at Celtic Park. That was something I will never forget, and of course we won a championship and that's something no-one can take away from me.

It is hard when you think you can do better, but things just aren't working out.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition.

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

My very, very first professional job was when I was 19 years old - I got a job doing an educational industrial film on Shell Motor Oil's oil products. I really put my heart into it - I wrote a script for it, I did a lot of research.

In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics.

I don't write duets - I write songs for my voice.

People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling in garbage, barking up an empty tree all night... But what do they do themselves? Bury stuff that will rot in secret and then dig it up and bury it again and rant and rave under empty trees!

It took me some time to get used to the game in Scotland because it was very different. The game is quicker and more physical. You don't get much time on the ball, that's for sure. It is probably better than I thought as well.

I do not write, I build.