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Quotes by Italian Authors
"It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power."
"That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches. Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us. Hold property and external riches with fear; they often leave their possessor scorned and mocked at for having lost them."
"But what use is the unicorn to you if your intellect doesn't believe in it?"
"Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point."
"Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces."
"Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics."
"But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance."
"The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character."
"The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way."
"Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones."
"Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature."
"Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more."
"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale."
"There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about."
"When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind."
"When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste."
"But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy."
"No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired."
"Now that he is no longer here I should be interested in so many things: philosophy, politics, history. I follow the news, read books, but they befuddle me. What he meant to say is not there, for he understood something else, something that was all-embracing, and he could not say it in words but only by living as he did."
"I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case."
"A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism."
"For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all."
"The individual couldn't find any attention in Italy."
"Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside."
"The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo around what is written can give the illusion that you are reading also what is not written."
"To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events."
"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."
"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent."
"I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed."
"Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider."
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