Finnish Quotes

18 quotes by 17 authors

• Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army — Joseph Stalin
• Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish. — Adolf Ivar Arwidsson
• 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… — Renny Harlin
• I think there are very few invisible musical instrument players out there who can claim the chops and sheer perseverance of Björn Türoque, the world's… — John Hodgman
• Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears. — Paavo Haavikko
• They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It’s the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he… — Arthur Lydiard
• The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more… — Lafcadio Hearn
• Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge. — Linus Torvalds
• It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• Love leaped out in front of us like a murderer in an alley leaping out of nowhere, and struck us both at once. As lightning… — Mikhail Bulgakov
• (Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his… — Susan Cain
• My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket… — Michael Franti
• Tommy Wirkola is Norwegian but has a Finnish surname - he comes from the one of the northernmost countries in the whole of Europe. It… — Pihla Viitala
• 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… — Harri Holkeri
• 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… — Harri Holkeri
• Believe yourself in everything that you do,never loose hope,coz the finnish-line must just be laying ahead. — Jamsta E Ngugz
• There was a moment last night, when she was sandwiched between the two Finnish dwarves and the Maori tribesmen, where I thought, Wow, I could… — Zoolander
• Im surprised I lived this long. it would have been much easier to let everything go and finnish it. I look back at all the… — Nayelysaldana

Who Wrote These Finnish Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 18 Finnish Quotes as follows:

• 2 Finnish Quotes by Harri Holkeri
• 1 Finnish Quote by Joseph Stalin
• 1 Finnish Quote by Adolf Ivar Arwidsson
• 1 Finnish Quote by Renny Harlin
• 1 Finnish Quote by John Hodgman
• 1 Finnish Quote by Paavo Haavikko
• 1 Finnish Quote by Arthur Lydiard
• 1 Finnish Quote by Lafcadio Hearn
• 1 Finnish Quote by Linus Torvalds
• 1 Finnish Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien
• 1 Finnish Quote by Mikhail Bulgakov
• 1 Finnish Quote by Susan Cain
• 1 Finnish Quote by Michael Franti
• 1 Finnish Quote by Pihla Viitala
• 1 Finnish Quote by Jamsta E Ngugz
• 1 Finnish Quote by Zoolander
• 1 Finnish Quote by Nayelysaldana