Johanna Tukiainen Quotes & Sayings

I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading. — Jeffery Deaver

Under English law the penalty for eating meat on Friday was hanging. The law remained on the books until the sixteenth century, when Henry VIII broke with the Vatican. — Mark Kurlansky

When the Universe attains Versistasis, everything will cease to exist and be create in the perfected dual moment. — Jason Jowett

I was among one of the first entrepreneurs to start building their own private enterprise when Perestroika began in Russia and the state initiated its first market-oriented reforms. — Yelena Baturina

The West is anything but altruistic. — Paul Kagame

And I did say excuse me, with my butt. Apparently you don't speak rectum. — Ellen Hopkins

I'm not a politician. I'm not a policy wonk. I was a political reporter, but that's not really what turns me on. What turns me on is how people perceive the issue and how people see people like me. — Jose Antonio Vargas

You can't give up. You can't ever give up. If you give up you might as well be dead. — Robert Jordan

I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys. — L. Ron Hubbard

If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God. — Paul Krugman

I've never heard a writer feel that way about a device with a screen. Oh sure, they're functional, practical. We would be lost without them. But just as we need to feel our feet on the earth, smell and taste the world around us, the pen scratching against the page, sensory and slow, is the difference between looking at a high-definition picture of a flower and holding that very same flower in your palm, feeling the brush of its petals, the color of its stamen rubbing off on your fingers. — Dani Shapiro

It was through this viewer that he got his first reply from Tralfamadore. The reply was written on Earth in huge stones on a plain in what is now England. The ruins of the reply still stand, and are known as Stonehenge. The meaning of Stonehenge in Tralfamadorian, when viewed from above, is: Replacement part being rushed with all possible speed. — Kurt Vonnegut

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared. — Gloria E. Anzaldua