Quotes About Finnish

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It's all the old tales sailors tell about Finns. How they are a race of magicians and warlocks. How they can sing up a storm any time they've a mind to. Why, back in the old sailing days you'd be hard put to find a captain who would sign up a Finn—or a crew who would tolerate having him aboard!

I would radically redesign early years education to learn from the best bits of the Finnish system.

The French attitude to the Finnish War reminded one of the voyeur who gets his thrills out of other people's manly exploits.

Tommy Wirkola is Norwegian but has a Finnish surname - he comes from the one of the northernmost countries in the whole of Europe. It was easy working with him. The people in the north are all fairly similar.

A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them.

L'amore ci aveva sorpreso inatteso e violento come un assassino che sbuchi fuori d'improvviso, e ci aveva pugnalato entrambi. Così colpisce il fulmine, così colpisce la lama finnica.

Aitisi nai poroja," replied Veikko, a pleasantry long grown routine, meaning, "Your mother fucks reindeer.

Enjoy the sauna. Sitting in the heat can increase heart rate, which helps the heart muscle get exercise and also moves lymph fluid where it needs to go to assist in maintenance and repair of your crucial coronary arteries. Toxins from your body are carried away with sweat. One prospective Finnish study showed that the more often subjects took a sauna, the lower their risk for heart attack and overall

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women.

Among Violet's many useful skills was a vast knowledge of different types of knots. The particular knot she was using was called the Devil's Tongue. A group of female Finnish pirates invented it back in the fifteenth century, and named it the Devil's Tongue because it twisted this way and that, in the most complicated and eerie way.

You may discover that a certain sequence of letters in your autosomal DNA is typically found in someone with Finnish heritage or Korean ancestry. Only a few years ago the world of science was turned upside down when it was discovered that in ancient times two nonhuman species contributed to the human genome.

Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.

In addition, in one of the largest child evacuations in history, 80,000 Finnish children were evacuated (mainly to Sweden), with long-lasting traumatic consequences extending to the next generation

The poor performance of the huge Soviet army against the tiny Finnish army had been a big embarrassment to the Soviet Union: about eight Soviet soldiers killed for every Finn killed. The longer a war with Finland went on, the higher was the risk of British and French intervention, which would drag the Soviet Union into war with those countries and invite a British/French attack on Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus.

I'm studying Finnish, and it's one of the five most difficult languages in the world. And the more I learn, the more I realize that's definitely true.

In the beginning there were the swamp, the hoe - and Jussi.

Suomen pojat! Tulkaa hakemaan leipää!» – Tu sinä hakeen leipäs päälle voita! khihihi.

A Finnish study found that the intake of smoked and salted fish increased risk of colon cancer by more than two and one-half times

I think that you're dealing with a deity, or at least a demigod." "Jesus," I said. "No, this guy is Finnish, not Jewish," Bob said seriously.

Useimmat mainarit olivat suomalaisia, ja töistä tultuaan he menivät suihkuun ja saunaan. Saunan edessä oli puinen karsina, ja talvella he juoksivat ulos ja kieriskelivät lumessa. Ensin me tirkistelimme aidanraosta ja hihittelimme miesten sinisiä kaluja ja palleja, mutta sitten me nauroimme ääneen niin kuin hekin, silkasta riemusta, kun oli lunta ja sininen, sininen taivas.

Rurik was the Clovis of Russia. When with his band of followers he was established at Novgorod the name of Russia came into existence, supposedly from the Finnish word ruotsi, meaning rowers or sea-farers.

In some senses, the Finns can be considered über-Scandinavians.