Finn Quotes

85 quotes by 48 authors

Honestly, I'm one of the ones who is least like my character, just because I like to make people laugh and have a good time-and… — Jacob Artist
One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist.… — Hal Holbrook
The Finn is the most watery person in Europe... Here people take baths that last three or four hours and steep their bodies in water… — Angel Ganivet
I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed… — Mark Twain
I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child or an… — Azar Nafisi
The Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which is harshly suppressed.… — Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt… — Richard Louv
If Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer were alive today, weâ€™d say they had ADD or a conduct disorder. They [boys] are who they are, and… — Michael Gurian
Never try to out drink a Swede, unless you happen to be a Finn or at least a Russian. — Jonas Jonasson
If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn. — Andy Borowitz
I read Norman Lockâ€™sÂ The Boy in His WinterÂ with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true… — David Oshinsky
I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his… — James Joyce
They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. Itâ€™s the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he… — Arthur Lydiard
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk… — Annie Dillard
I grew up like Huck Finn, always outdoors, exploring, collecting frogs - there was space everywhere. I want my kids to experience that too. I… — Josh Duhamel
I liked Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, and that is the kind of character that I would like to have played. That would have been… — Keith Thibodeaux
Finn crossed his arms and glared at Volusian. It was kind of a bold move, considering Finn looked like a cartoon character and Volusian looked… — Richelle Mead
It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours… — Leslie Fiedler
What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing… — Ed O'Brien
By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the… — Kenzaburo Oe

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