Extraordinary Quote by Tove Jansson

“It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.”

Tove Jansson

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings)

More by Tove Jansson

I'm not sure I would have ever started to draw, let alone write, if my childhood hadn't been so happy. It was a mixture…

Tove Jansson

Image

“The star we're looking for isn't so very friendly," said Moomintroll. "Quite the contrary, in fact." "What did you say?" said Sniff. Moomintroll went a bit red. "I mean -- stars in general," he said, "big and small, friendly and unfriendly, and so on." "Can they be unfriendly?" asked Snufkin. "Yes -- ones with tails," answered Moomintroll. "Comets." At last…

Tove Jansson

“But Moominpappa wasn't listening, because just at that moment he had got the right grip on a big round boulder, and with a great…

Tove Jansson

Image

Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.

Tove Jansson

Image

All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which are forgotten the next…

Tove Jansson

Image

Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.

Tove Jansson

Image

It's risky to talk about one's most secret dreams a bit too early.

Tove Jansson

Image

“I cannot stress enough the perils of your friends marrying or becoming court inventors. One day you are all a society of outlaws, adventurous comrades and companions who will be pushing off somewhere or other when things become tiresome; you have all the world to choose from, just by looking at the map… And then, suddenly, they’re not interested any…

Tove Jansson

“Sophia," she said, "this is really not something to argue about. You can see for yourself that life is hard enough without being punished for it afterwards. We get comfort when we die, that's the whole idea." "It's not hard at all!" Sophia shouted. "And what are you going to do about the Devil, then? He lives in Hell!" For…

Tove Jansson

Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure and quite…

Tove Jansson

Image

It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready…

Tove Jansson

Image

“It'd be awful if the world exploded, it's so wonderfully splendid”

Tove Jansson

Image

Explore all 159 Tove Jansson quotes

More Extraordinary quotes

We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000…

Julian Assange

Image

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent…

Thomas Huxley

Nothing teaches great writing like the very best books do. Yet, good teachers often help students cross that bridge, and I have to say…

Julia Glass

Image

I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the extraordinary prosperity and growing power of this nation, I should answer that it is due…

Alexis de Tocqueville

Newspapers have an extraordinary amount of local content, including real estate listings and restaurant reviews.

Kimbal Musk

Image

The contributions being made by Latinos are extraordinary, and we need to talk about them.

Roger Ailes

Image

Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn't catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary is that…

Mara Liasson

Image

We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.

Sidney Altman

Image

I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a little chair and say, "You'll have three score years and ten," and take a photograph every minute. "And we'll watch you and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run…

Clive Barker

Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a…

Chaz Brenchley

In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and…

Harsha Bhogle

Image

My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.

Karen Robards

Image

Browse all 2,770 Extraordinary quotes

Extraordinary Quote by Tove Jansson

Related quotes

More by Tove Jansson

More Extraordinary quotes