Kaija Saariaho famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

  • The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

  • The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

  • Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

  • It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.

  • Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.

  • I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.

  • I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

  • Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance

  • We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.