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Quotes by Italian Authors
"I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing."
"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances."
"I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention."
"Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose."
"Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels."
"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love."
"I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume."
"You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are."
"And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight."
"Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience."
"There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience."
"I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is."
"I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent."
"We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves."
"War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it."
"We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either."
"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."
"I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between."
"I don't like hawking 'round other people's memories. That wasn't part of the deal when I was born."
"To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked."
"I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body."
"God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter."
"I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then."
"At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay."
"You turn the book over in your hands, you scan the sentences on the back of the jacket, generic phrases that don't say a great deal. So much the better, there is no message that indiscreetly outshouts the message that the book itself must communicate directly, that you must extract from the book, however much or little it may be. Of course, this circling of the book, too, this reading around it before reading inside it, is a part of the pleasure in a new book, but like all preliminary pleasures, it has its optimal duration if you want it to serve as a thrust toward the more substantial pleasure of the consummation of the act, namely the reading of the book."
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