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Jonkonnu if you want to. That was a custom that got started
Maktub" (It is written.)
A webcam that Iceland's environmental agency had set up.
On my life, Magnus, I swear this is the truth: your father is a Norse god. Now, hurry. We're in a twenty- minute parking spot.
Finns squares his shoulders - which have gotten a good deal sturdier since I last saw him. Or paid attention, at any rate. How long has it been since I actually looked? He's gotten awfully handsome; it can't have happened overnight.
Like a Volvo, Bjorn Borg is rugged, has good after-sales service, and is very dull.
I am so 100 percent Swedish ... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that.
We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.
Language and History in Viking Age England: Language Relations between Speakers of Old Norse and Old English (Turnbout, 2002).
Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.
Im looking at you 'cause i can't look away" -Finn
I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.
Taleenoi olngisoilechashur.
Just out of interest, what did you make of my Finn?
Probably the most beautiful man I've ever seen.
Today was the day to win again, Javlei held his axe in hand he had killed many people with it he didn't care that he had blood on his hands. He had won the STEDFARST races every year so far by being ruthless butchering other racers as he went.
If there is a Swedish style, I cannot identify it.
In this candid and rounded memoir, Baksi answers the questions a multitude of Larsson's fans have already asked about his upbringing; the recurring death threats; his insomnia and his vices; his feminism
What kind of God is it who's upset by a cartoon in Danish?
[Interview with Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, June 23, 2006]
I'm strong, fight to deat, ja?' I almost laughed at hearing a wolf accent through mindspeech.
Together we shall see what is in this great kingdom of Denmark, and on this journey you will put from you all the sufferings of recent years and regain your joy in the world.
Kurtapyjama. His face was deeply lined, and his white
What?"
Finn remembered sitting at the kitchen table with Sean, both of them trying to say the world "table" in Polish. Roza had said, "You have tongue like cow!" and laughed and laughed.
"What?" Sean said again.
He had tongue like cow, he had mind like cow. Dull, wordless.
God forgives, the Finns do not.' This
Next time we fight the Danes you'll be with me.
"You?"
"Because we are warriors," I said, "and our job is to kill our enemies, not be nursemaids to weaklings.
These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main, with good sense, steadiness, wise speech, and prompt action. But they have a singular turn for homicide; their chief end of man is to murder or to be murdered;
What kind of love demands the life of another? A child at that?"
"Danish love, my sweet. Can't you smell it?
Finn crossed his arms and glared at Volusian. It was kind of a bold move, considering Finn looked like a cartoon character and Volusian looked like he ate the souls of small children. For all I knew, he probably did.
To experience the northern forest in the raw, I went to northern Finland and Lapland, travelling on horseback, and sleeping on reindeer skins in the traditional open-fronted Finnish laavu. I ate elk heart, reindeer and lingonberries, and tried out spruce resin: the chewing gum of the Stone Age.
It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.
Dreamer in Exile.
Valar Dohaeris. All men must serve.
Danders Anders squealed with joy. The most malodorous sound in the world.
Good stuff!" [Knud] said. "All organic, of course! All fresh! We take care of the earth here! You like smoked herring? You will. Of course you will! I work in iron, though I have also done some of these wood carvings. All of my work is based on traditional Danish art. I am a Viking! Eat!
American Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually wrapped in cellophane. Danish Danish is light, crisp, buttery and often tastes of marzipan or raisins; it is seldom wrapped in anything but loving care.
Do you always curse in Danish?" he asked.
She shook her head and flashed him a smile. "No," she replied. "I can curse in seventeen languages - and I can tell you to fuck me in twenty-four.
I think I ought to cut my hair off," said Maia, one morning, as she tore yet another tooth out of Finn's comb.
"No. That's a bad idea."
Maia looked up, surprised. "But you wanted Clovis to cut his hair."
"That was different.
[Magnus] was wearing canary-yellow pajamas, and on his feet were green slippers with alien faces, complete with sproingy atennae.
In Norway, we have a community of people who prefer to use a version of Norwegian that looks very much like lutefisk: Dug up remains from the garbage heap of history and dressed up to look like a tradition.
Flipp'er over, flip flip!
Elcric d'na, trats!
Everybody naked, nobody happy. It's Scandinavian art porn.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
Polish, Lithuanian, and German - "Dom.
I don't feel Swedish. In fact, my father tells me to get out of here as soon as I can.
Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
I thought I could organise freedom/How Scandinavian of me ...
No Finn, ya ding-dong!
-Princess Bubblegum
One of Solstad's regular "connecting" statements in his narrative is: "Vi skal komme tilbakke til . . . " - "We shall come to-back to . . .
Sassenach I might be to him, but not English.
Finn never looks more excited - he just gets faster. Finns are generally slow-moving creatures.
The Finns are part of the Finno-Ugric group of peoples, and are related to many different indigenous peoples that stretch right across the belt of forest and tundra regions of Russia and Siberia, as far as the Pacific.
Never try to out-drink a Swede, unless you happen to be a Finn or at least a Russian.
Look at this. A barstool, named Sven? Some old Swedish custom, the winter kicks in, weather gets harsh, after a while you find yourself relating to the furniture in ways you didn't expect?
The peasants of Asturias are convinced that in every litter of wolves there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be Javert.
He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
The crews of the Viking ships are Danish, Norse, Frisian, and Saxon.
A feast of languages
Do you know the story?
No, Finn, but I have a feeling you're going to tell me.
Hvad udad tabes, skal indad vindes. (What was lost without will be found within.)
You're still ... Declan?"
Voice hoarse, he said, "Aye, it's me. I will never be your perfect Viking, Regin! I've made unforgivable mistakes. I've no family or friends, and my men hold no love for me. I'm scarred inside and out. And I'm bloody askin' for you anyway!
Finn whispered, "What has a head, thorax, and abdomen, but stands six feet tall?"
"A snowman?
Veni, vidi, vici. (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
BLARGLE SLORG NOTH HARGHLE FTHAGN! You know. The usual.
Hey," Anaxantis protested. "Oh," he added, when the Muktar prince took his member in his mouth. "Oh ... that's what you meant by servicing." He laughed softly.
"Aw, aw, teeth, teeth, no teeth," he hissed suddenly.
"Sowwy," Timishi, mumbled with his mouth full. "Towd you it wouldn't je jood.
He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.
I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.
You're NOT Norway!!! You'll never BE Norway!!! And BECAUSE of your not being Norway, you will be CRUELLY and UNFORGIVINGLY PUNISHED!!!
...Traduttore, traditore.
The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier.
The deft white-stockinged dance in thick-soled
shoes! Denmark's sanctuaried Jews!
Finn is God: So much for Earth Day. I totally screwed things up and started celebrating the wrong planet. Now I have to collect all these stupid trademarked dog figurines that I distributed all of the yard. At least it's better than last year's mistake when I had butt statues everywhere.
I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.
Don't tell the Scandinavians I said this, but "Swedish," "Norwegian," and "Danish" are all really one "language,
You know nothing John Snow
the wildling Ygritte
Mellingey Stream
The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of a Scandinavian accent, maybe with a Swedish accent and an old way of speaking.
I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish; I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.
But it was Finnikin he tried not to look at, except her heard something come from him that sound like some wild animal and then Finnikin said her name and as long as Froi was alive he had never heard a word said with such pain and he knew he never would again.
Finn is my happy. But he can't be the only source. I'll drown that way.
Ve haf vays of making you gif us your DNA sample.
Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi
Remember how I told you that the Vikings sacked my village and took me back with them?" Ranulf was speaking to Vic now; I'd never heard this story before. "All young men among the Vikings were taught to fight."
Vic slowly said, "This is why you kick so much ass at World of Warcraft, isn't it?
Yess, Exccellenccy. Larsst iss my name.
I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
I speak Swedish mainly with my kids' friends.
I feel pride in being a Greenlander.
Jacin. The name brought sunshine and blood and kisses and growls rising to Winter's skin.
To me, Helsinki is one big movie studio.
Robin Einstein Sacrificial Lamb Varghese.
This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.
Denmark (also called Norway) is best known as the original home of the prune Danish as well as the Vikings, who wore hats with horns sticking out of them, and for a very good reason: they were insane.
Finn fell asleep draped in Kittens and dreamed that the corn walked the earth on skinny white roots, liked to joke with the crows, and wasn't afraid of anything.
Perry Johansson.
That there can still be as-yet untranslated fiction by [Tove] Jansson is simultaneously an aberration and a delight, like finding buried treasure.
I am Alvarr sen Danyd, and I call you in Teganne's name. I need you. Come!
Did you ever go to a place ... I think it was called Norway?" "No," said Arthur, "no, I didn't." "Pity," said Slartibartfast, "that was one of mine. Won an award, you know. Lovely crinkly edges. I was most upset to hear of its destruction.
Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth rate. America can help. This is a perfect opportunity to name Jesse Jackson ambassador to Sweden.
I don't want spaghetti. I want to know what a Magnus Bane is.
Finland is no utopia.
I'm a big girl, Finn.
What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'