Tove Jansson Quotes

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

Tove Jansson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: finnish
  • Birth: August 9, 1914 - June 27, 2001

Topics

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Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.

Andrew Weil

HealthMedicalControlPressureTop

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

John Ciardi

NeighborhoodChangingWorseArea

I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.

John Oates

MusicPeopleMoreRespondHonest

That's really important to me - creating moments that last forever.

Jeff Hardy

MeMomentsCreatingImportantLast

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Anais Nin

LoveManFeelAnxietyYouKnow

I was $4,000 short on my first payroll.

Tom Douglas

ShortFirstPayroll

I think reasonable people could agree that, at some point, there's enough income that someone should be expected to participate in the health-care system.

Ron Williams

PeopleThinkSomeoneEnoughSystem

Jelavic improved massively going to the Premier League. He was great for Rangers, but Premier League is different: faster and more physical. He is perfect for the Premier League, has everything to succeed.

Luka Modric

GreatSucceedPerfectMoreGoingHe

This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.

Joseph Lancaster

LossEncouragementRewardPunishment

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

Chris Abani

TimeInternetNonfictionExciting

When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to learn in their own way. That rebooted my thinking about education.

Suzy Amis

EducationHomeChildThinkingLearn

Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

Peter Farrelly

WorkYourselfSomeoneYouKnowWell

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