Helsingin Yliopisto Quotes & Sayings

Life is a long lonely walk — Anno Nomius

There was a time when the word "friend" meant something deeper, not the cheap thing it has become because of Facebook. — Catherine Torres

Just before dawn, when the pain became unbearable, he took one of the morphine tablets and fell off into a loud, booming sleep, in which the great sun expanded until it filled the entire universe, the stars themselves jolted by each of its beats. — J.G. Ballard

What must that be like? To be admired before you've even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you're like? — David Nicholls

If the present civilisation does not acquire some stable moral fondations ("bases morales stables", Fr.), its existence will hardly be more assured than that of the civilisations that have preceeded it, and which have fallen (or collapse, or failed — African Spir

I'm a cheesy over-the-top megalomaniac with a deep voice and the most amazing pecs. — David Hasselhoff

Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious. — Dagur Kari

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation. — Catherynne M Valente

Love, gratitude, compassion, and kindness are the sources of all enduring, pure happiness. — Debasish Mridha

Be patient and kind, unflaggingly. — David Mitchell

There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book. — Terry Brooks

Kinley stepped up behind Law, peering out from behind his back. "Are you sorry you kidnapped me?"
He had to be honest with her. "No. If I hadn't, you wouldn't be here. I'd be a lot sorrier about that. I think you would, too."
She pursed her lips. "Are you sorry that your dog raped mine?"
He wasn't about to take that. "No, your dog led mine into sin. He has a thing for bows. She used it against him."
He caught the faintest hint of a smile from her. "I'll admit, she's a flirty thing. So if you're not apologizing for kidnapping me or very likely turning my dog into a single mother, what are you sorry about?"
So many things. "For being rude to you. — Shayla Black