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Quotes by Italian Authors
"Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody."
"People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots."
"The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?"
"An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things."
"My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself."
"My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family."
"When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves."
"I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon."
"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them."
"Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance."
"All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance."
"It is a very honest world, our work. I think you cannot fake anything."
"Die Menschen tun das Böse nie so vollständig und begeistert, wie wenn sie es aus religiöser Überzeugung tun.“
"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."
"When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories."
"No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle."
"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."
"If the audience never understands the plot, it can be counted on to be attentive to the very end."
"I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life."
"We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude."
"Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum."
"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship."
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