Famous Moomin Quotes & Sayings

How adversity doth ope the eye! A moon can be seen by day as well as by night; but, to see the stars, you must be in darkness. — Ivan Panin

I don't mess with that cat. I'm pretty sure he carries a blade under his jersey. — Charles Barkley

Young love-making
that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to
the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung
are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust. — George Eliot

I never wanted to be a writer. — Herta Muller

And why is it that time speeds and slows depending on your attendance? I'd like a steady clock, a reliable clock, isolated from the progressive beating of my heart. — Coco J. Ginger

A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do — Osho

I just love to bake chocolate cakes and anything unhealthy. It makes me very popular. — Helena Mattsson

Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul's School. — E.C. Bentley

Juan Garcia began putting chairs upside down on the tables. Gathering Mr. Packard's spoon, cup, and saucer, Dynah watched the old man walk stiffly across the room. His arthritis was troubling him again. — Francine Rivers

Find something you love and commit. Commit 100%. Put your head down, and work as hard as you can. Make it as best you can, and that's all you can really do. It doesn't sound like much, but lots of people don't do the work. And it's not men or women. Lots of people like to be the director, but don't like to do a lot of the work that is sometimes quite tedious. — Jen McGowan

In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay. — Veronica Roth