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Quotes by Italian Authors

"In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected."

"I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone."

"Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider."

"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame."

"My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can."

"Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand."

"In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get."

"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."

"You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time."

"The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it."

"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."

"No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job."

"He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons."

"Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs."

"But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity."

"The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union."

"Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations."

"I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art."

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."

"Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."

"Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness."

"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."


"Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place."

"Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself."

"But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic."

"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."

"At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being."
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