Tarja Turunen Quotes

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

I have a love for anything gold.

A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.

Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.

Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

Tasteful rather than expensive.

If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.

The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.

The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.

Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.

There is no perfection only life

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.

Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.

I like this word decadent; all shimmering and purple and gold.

Perfection is not very communicative

There are a lot of nice details that are exclusive to C. Wonder, which are the status C. Wonder gold buttons and the tassels. We want the customer and the loyal client to just really know that when they come to C. Wonder they're getting something that's super wearable but is also really luxurious.

Extravagant is, I think, the word we all thought when we met ... A lot of money went into that [The Grand Tour's ]. I just thought it would be a good idea to have a bridge from the old to the new and that was a way of saying 'Right, well now look where we are.'

Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection through the imperfect gestures of daily life. Its beauty consists in the respect with which it is performed. If a mere cup of tea can bring us closer to God, we should watch out for all the other dozens of opportunities that each ordinary day offers us.

Why carve? It's a better sculpture that way. I'll never improve the block. So I just started using uncarved blocks.