Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled… — Paavo Haavikko Copy Share Image
“En tiedä pelkäävätkö he tuolia vai minua, vai olemmeko me heidän silmissään yksi ja sama, jonkinlainen kyborgi, pyörä-Maria.” — Maija Haavisto Copy Share Image
Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish. — Adolf Ivar Arwidsson Copy Share Image
“me rakas opimme edellisten sukupolvien virheistä osasimme tehdä ne samat” — Arno Kotro Copy Share Image
Believe yourself in everything that you do,never loose hope,coz the finnish-line must just be laying ahead. — Jamsta E Ngugz Copy Share Image
“Ei,” he said, shaking his head. “En puhu suomea.” No, he said in Finnish. I don’t speak Finnish.” — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“Kun olet lapsi mene metsään. Sydämesi on kipeä. Mene kasvaaksesi. Se on kylmää kyytiä. Siellä on karhuja ja oksia.” — Miki Liukkonen Copy Share Image
I tried to learn the Finnish language, which is really, really, really hard, and I realized that if I want to really… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
I'm studying Finnish, and it's one of the five most difficult languages in the world. And the more I learn, the more… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
“sinuun on kasvanut uudenlaisia karvoja ja sinuun on ylipäänsä kasvanut karvoja. Poskissasi nukkaa rinnassasi ruskeaa rähmää sinun, minä olen sinun” — Maaria Päivinen Copy Share Image
“Mies ja nainen, minne menevät yöksi, missä asennossa he nukkuvat, millainen on lakanoitten tuoksu ja mihin aukeaa ikkuna, kun ulkona tuulee ja… — Joni Pyysalo Copy Share Image
“There is an old joke in Finland, a country proud of its collective introspective character and shyness. “How do you know when… — Stuart Rojstaczer Copy Share Image
We ceased to deal seriously with mobile combat. We relegated to oblivion the fundamentals of combat-in-depth tactics and of combined arms maneuvers… — Sergey Biryuzov Copy Share Image
Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
In Sweden I am considered the Finnish-Norwegian, in Norway Finnish-Swedish, and in Finland Swedish-Norwegian. I've never really belonged anywhere. — Peter Sunde Copy Share Image
The average studies of cellphones and brain cancer have studied people who have used cellphones for five years or less. Sometimes eight… — Devra Davis Copy Share Image
I sing only in Meronian - my own language - but there are also elements of English and Finnish languages in our… — Jussi Lehtisalo Copy Share Image
When you used to be able to express yourself as an adult in your own language, or as I can do in… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
When you travel from your own country to another country for a long period, you do become aware of the differences. For… — Kaija Saariaho Copy Share Image
I talked with labels and they wouldn't help with my international career. They said, 'Saara, if you're in Finland you just have… — Saara Aalto Copy Share Image
I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
English has always been my musical language. When I started writing songs when I was 13 or 14, I started writing in… — Olivia Merilahti Copy Share Image
My Finnish is... I'm sounding like a three-year-old, at my best. It's super hard to really have a conversation, unfortunately. I know… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
In the mid-1980s, however, the Estonian TV programmers came up with a clever idea: they asked Moscow for millions of rubles to… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
“Craftsman Ilmarinen wept Every evening for his woman, Weeping sleepless through the nights And fasting through the days; In the early hours… — Elias Lönnrot Copy Share Image
Never before has information been so important, to governments and businesses alike. And please don't imagine that some of you gathered here… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
“In one of our conversations, she told me about Finland’s development of sisu, a rough cognate for grit. Etymologically, sisu denotes a… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
