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Quotes by Italian Authors
"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."
"We'll make an army in the trees and bring the earth and the people on it to their senses."
"Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame."
"Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest."
"All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful."
"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."
"Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy."
"It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important."
"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."
"They knew each other. He knew her and so himself, for in truth he had never known himself. And she knew him and so herself, for although she had always known herself she had never been able to recognize it until now."
"Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.Well, it's all over. We have to start again from the beginning, asking one another what's going on."
"Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much."
"It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner."
"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."
"Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone."
"The priest is the personification of falsehood."
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."
"But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic."
"This is certainly not the first case in which a merger approved in one place hasn't gone through in the other. There was a case last year where the merger between two EU companies was approved here and blocked in the U.S."
"I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent."
"Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody."
"I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks."
"But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance."
"I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel."
"It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do."
"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."
"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."
"If I test the car for a year I can be quite competitive the next season."
"You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics."
"It wasn't a checkpoint but a patrol which immediately opened fire after they trained their light on us."
"And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan."
"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."
"I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely."
"In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves."
"I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother."
"Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile."
"In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement."
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