Merikanto Quotes & Sayings

There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which it has cooled down. — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

I do like football fans, though, contrary to most people of my skinny-train-enthusiast build. I like how merry they all are. They mean things good-naturedly. I find it sweet that they sing such girly songs with such conviction. The West Ham theme, for example, begins: "I'm forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air", which is the least manly thing you could ever hear anyone sing, and yet they bellow it with all the testosterone they have in them. What's more, it's a song completely ill-chosen to be a football anthem, as it's about hoping you achieve your dreams but never doing so; after the first two lines, the song continues, "they fly so high, nearly reach the sky, then like my dreams they fade and die; fortune's always hiding, I've looked everywhere; I'm forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air". It's poetic, humble and very sweet. Bless those lovely little football fans. — Alex Day

Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance. — Thomas Beecham

I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly. — Larisa Oleynik

When we focus on love,
we shall experience love. — Molly Friedenfeld

No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein — Isaac Asimov

When the boomers started to have kids reach adolescence, there was suddenly this feeling that they needed to protect their kids from all the same things they did when they were kids. Which I guess is a natural tendency, but it makes for a less fun society. — Dave Barry

When you think of dog movies, that genre, Old Yeller is sort of the benchmark and you hope that you can raise your game up to that. — Jennifer Aniston