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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances."
"In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child."
"I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them."
"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has."
"The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them."
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
"You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are."
"I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body."
"A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment."
"When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means."
"Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience."
"It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me."
"It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God."
"Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic."
"Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else."
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations."
"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."
"At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay."
"He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons."
"We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves."
"Well, I don't think a specific role can destroy your voice. What can destroy your voice is when you... make an error. Everybody can make an error. But then you need to realize what is your way."
"I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years."
"I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?"
"If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love."
"In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be."
"And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight."
"Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!"
"The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature."
"The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars."
"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
"It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills."
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