Mielikki Quotes & Sayings

Standing in front of a microphone where every word or every slip that you make, especially in these times, is with you forever - you want to say the right thing. I fell into having to extemporize, and it came okay because of tools I've learned. I said [to myself], "Remember [to mention] mom and dad." — Neil Peart

If you cannot fill the gap and emptiness in your heart, don't be disappointed. If you had already filled it, your life would have meant finished. — M.F. Moonzajer

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength. — Gautama Buddha

Flight from boredom is the mother of all art. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm in no condition to drive ... wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk! — Yogi Berra

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them. — Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

What is wrong with you? ARe you the only guy in the universe who doesn't like a blow job? — Elise Allen

If she can't stand the heat, she needs to stay out of the kitchen," Mr. Rush insisted.
"Or you could air-condition the kitchen," I said. "Or at least install a fan to ventilate some of the fumes. — Jennifer Echols

The pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar. — L. Jon Wertheim

For the benefit of those of you who have real jobs and are not involved in the news business, I should first explain that ... — Dave Barry

But what am I to do? I must have some drug, and reading isn't a strong enough drug now. By writing it all down (all? - no: one thought in a hundred) I believe I get a little outside it. That's how I'd defend it to H. But ten to one she'd see a hole in the defence. — C.S. Lewis

You view the gods as entities without," Montolio tried to explain. "You see them as physical beings trying to control our actions for their own ends, and thus you, in your stubborn independance, reject them. The gods are within, I say, whether one has named his own or not. You have followed Mielikki all your life, Drizzt. You merely never had a name to put on your heart. — R.A. Salvatore