Benches Quote by Paavo Haavikko

My Finnish, it never really happened, but I'm good in Swedish.

— Floor Jansen

“Ei,” he said, shaking his head. “En puhu suomea.” No, he said in Finnish. I don’t speak Finnish.”

— Kory Stamper

I'm studying Finnish, and it's one of the five most difficult languages in the world. And the more I learn, the more I realize…

— Floor Jansen

When you used to be able to express yourself as an adult in your own language, or as I can do in English, for…

— Floor Jansen

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…

— Arthur Lydiard

“I finish what I start, and I Finnish what I Swedish.”

— Jarod Kintz

It's very Finnish to think you can't make it outside Finland.

— Saara Aalto

I tried to learn the Finnish language, which is really, really, really hard, and I realized that if I want to really learn it,…

— Floor Jansen

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a…

— Gertrude Stein

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

— Marisol Nichols

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.

— George Crane

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

— Rita Mae Brown