Juuso Riikola Quotes & Sayings

Sarcasm is lost in print. — Jon Cryer

Are we going to get out of here, do you think?" "Oh, they'll have to release us sooner or later. Prisoners of war, which is how they must be classifying us, have to be released at the end of hostilities. There are international rules. I was a prisoner of war before, nearly forty years ago. — Lucy Beckett

Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of water. Sometimes I think about the journey the water has traveled, reconnecting me to the larger cycles of nature. — Janet Echelman

If we stop and look over the past and then into the future, we can see that the possibilities are growing greater and greater every day; that we have scarcely begun to reach the proper results from the field we have before us. — David H. McConnell

Modernity has come to=syncretism — Jonah Books

When I came to America, I was really into all the things people eat here ... People called me Muffin because I would eat muffins all the time. — Heidi Klum

We all dream of making contact with aliens while we can't really understand our neighbors across the border. — D. Rus

We've had hassles, ups and downs, ins and outs, failures and triumphs. We're human beings, and we're not perfect. And we're mortal. But the Beach Boys is musically a tremendous body of work that transcends individuality and time and national boundaries. — Mike Love

The trouble with letting people see you at your worst isn't that they'll remember; it's that you'll remember. — Sarah Manguso

At the end of our visit, Fleisher agreed to play something on my piano, a beautiful old 1894 Bechstein concert grand that I had grown up with, my father's piano. Fleisher sat at the piano and carefully, tenderly, stretched each finger in turn, and then, with arms and hands almost flat, he started to play. He played a piano transcription of Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze," as arranged for piano by Egon Petri. Never in its 112 years, I thought, had this piano been played by such a master-I had the feeling that Fleisher has sized up the piano's character and perhaps its idiosyncrasies within seconds, that he had matched his playing to the instrument, to bring out its greatest potential, its particularity. Fleisher seemed to distill the beauty, drop by drop, like an alchemist, into flowing notes of an almost unbearable beauty-and, after this, there was nothing more to be said. — Oliver Sacks

But I've been here in Wolverhampton for two days now and that's felt pretty eternal (though I can reveal that the Pizza Hut — David Nicholls

I turn the key and I turn the key and I turn the key and she doesn't do a damn thing. — Rachel Cohn