Martikainen Piippu Quotes & Sayings

The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it is an insatiable white louse which must die eventually of inanition. I am going to starve the white louse which is eating me up. I am going to die as a city in order to become again a man. Therefore I close my ears, my eyes, my mouth. — Henry Miller

The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there. — Ben Affleck

All that is real is seen with the heart. — Vivien Greene

Any definition of a successful life must include service to others. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world. — Rachel Griffiths

They are all negros. And the Fascists won't be called black because of their racial pride, so they are called White after the White Russians. And the Bolsheviks want to be called Black because of their racial pride. So when you say black you mean red, and when you mean red you say white and when the party who call themselves blacks say traitors they mean what we call blacks, but what we mean when we say traitors I really couldn't tell you. But from your point of view it will be quite simple. Lord Copper only wants patriot victories and both sides call themselves patriots, and of course both sides will claim all the victories. But, of course, it's really a war between Russia and Germany and Italy and Japan who are all against one another on the patriotic side. I hope I make myself plain? — Evelyn Waugh

All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus. — Walter E. Williams

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. — Henry Rollins

Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal. — Diablo Cody

Feelings are not facts — Anonymous

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it. — Honore De Balzac

So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The refrigerator in my room is still empty as usual, but I can't hear that sound any more. I feel that I can keep believing ... that even the thing all of us were looking for but never found on that day ... someday, surely.. We will find it. — Chica Umino