Markku Lappalainen Quotes & Sayings

He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace, be still!" And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. MARK 4:39 — David Jeremiah

Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world. — Dorothy Norman

The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce. — Michael Eisner

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. — Oscar Wilde

Wouldn't it be great if we didn't care who got the credit as long as the job got done? — Mark Beeson

The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me. — Alexander Chee

Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die. If the lights that guide us ever go out, they will fade little by little, as if of their own accord ... We therefore should not console ourselves by thinking that the barbarians are still a long way off. Some peoples may let the torch be snatched from their hands, but others stamp it out themselves. — Alexis De Tocqueville