Tove Jansson Quotes

It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures... I suddenly felt an urge to write down something that was to begin with 'Once upon a time.'

Tove Jansson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WinterTimeWarDownCreateTry

You don't need to go to the gym; all you need is a pair of shoes.

Joe Taslim

ShoesYouGymGoNeedPair

The iPad changed my life!

John Lasseter

LifeMy LifeChangediPad

We don't have the money in America to keep paying for the education of everybody else's children from around the world. We simply don't have the financial resources to do that.

Mo Brooks

EducationChildrenMoneyWorldKeep

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

Dee Hock

MindThoughtsProblemNewNeverOut

Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.

Donald Trump

TruthGreatMyselfCountryToo Much

Mandela's heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

Bono

LeadershipFreedomManThoughtHand

I wasn't a very well-behaved girl. I was often in detention for impertinence.

Brigitte Macron

GirlVeryOftenDetention

Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.

Winnie Byanyima

GrowthFightPovertyInequality

Owning a token bestows a right that results in product usage, a governance action, a given contribution, voting, or plain access to the product or market.

William Mougayar

ActionVotingResultsContribution

I think we all cheer for couples who just seem right together and go the distance.

Susan Lucci

TogetherThinkDistanceGoRight

I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.

Peter Hargreaves

LifeTimeMeHellBetterWorry

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

Pauline Hanson

HealthMedicalWorldBlackSitting

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