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Quotes by Italian Authors
"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."
"In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life."
"The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness."
"I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young."
"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred."
"It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me."
"Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places."
"As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself."
"God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves."
"There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing."
"I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves."
"Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop."
"These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time."
"You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own."
"Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station."
"I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing."
"An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God."
"I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed."
"After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper."
"Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you."
"It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself."
"They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach."
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else."
"Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?"
"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."
"If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it."
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