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Quotes by Italian Authors
"There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed."
"A lot of the advertisement is done by saying: first of all, have a complex about who you are."
"When I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so to speak. And it must not be thought that this is an 'idealistic' position, as if I were saying that the characters have an autonomous life and the author, in a kind of trance, makes them behave as they themselves direct him. That kind of nonsense belongs in term papers. The fact is that the characters are obliged to act according to the laws of the world in which they live. In other words, the narrator is the prisoner of his own premises."
"Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived."
"You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care!"
"The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute."
"I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to."
"No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: "Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.""
"And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own."
"Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do."
"The rights of the weak are not weaker rights, but are completely equal to the rights of the strong."
"True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know."
"This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently."
"We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things."
"To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio."
"There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry."
"The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man."
"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."
"Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations."
"To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. Instead of being told honestly what humans are and what bears are."
"Who can wonder at the attractiveness... of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?"
"There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember."
"As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviously."
"The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards."
"An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment."
"Out of nothing can come, and nothing can become nothing."
"The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living."
"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."
"Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs."
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