Uuno Turhapuro Quotes & Sayings

That's why people write books and stories, no doubt, to leave some impression behind, to share a sense of the beauty and pain. This — Jess Walter

Fortunately, due to a terrible misunderstanding, I soon found myself working as a consultant to the World Bank. I am not exactly sure what it was that led the World Bank to believe I had any expertise in infrastructure finance. I had never even balanced a checkbook. I hadn't even tried. There is not much reason to balance a checkbook when your checking account rarely tops the three-figure mark. And so, to the Third World countries who had the misfortune of working with me on their infrastructure projects, I wish to apologize. — J. Maarten Troost

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book. — Jodi Picoult

Remember the importance of phrases ... a piece of something, an entry, a moment, a mark. This adjusts the pressure of the giant task of creating the perfect masterwork. — Sara Genn

Price ain't merely about numbers. It's a satisfying sacrifice. — Toba Beta

One glance at the way he looked at her, and Sam knew exactly what he was. A lethal habit, she thought. The accelerator on a race car. A halo jump on a crystal clear day. The best possible rush with the worst possible consequences. — Alexi Lawless

There is indeed a great force in the world, a force spiritual and able to shape the physical universe, but that force is not something cut off, not something separate from ourselves. It is the energy in us, the strongest in our working, breathing, thinking together as one people; weakest when we are scattered, confused, broken into individual, unconnected fragments. — Ayi Kwei Armah

Jackson Pollock said once, "I don't really feel that many people in this world are alive." He said, "That's why I like you, Tom. You're alive." — Tom Robbins

First Europe, and then the globe, will be linked by flight, and nations so knit together that they will grow to be next-door neighbors ... What railways have done for nations, airways will do for the world. — Claude Grahame-White

The good news is that Jesus is praying for us. The bad news is that we are going to need it! — John Wimber

The best road to correct reasoning is by physical science; the way to trace effects to causes is through physical science; the only corrective, therefore, of superstition is physical science. — Frances Wright