Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

Antonio Tabucchi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: September 24, 1943 - March 25, 2012

Topics

CultureThinkSomeoneSituationRun

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

Jim Sensenbrenner

SportsGreatTemptationYoungBecome

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

Joely Richardson

MotherMoneySchoolBuildingThree

When I die, I'd like' Friends' to be listed behind 'helping people.'

Matthew Perry

PeopleFriendsDieHelping People

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue.

Tommy Lee Jones

LaughYouUnderstandSpiritAudience

I do genre films because I like them or because I need the money. I make a star's salary when I do horror because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.

Robert Englund

MoneyI CanSalaryHorrorNeedOpen

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.

Tom Daschle

EffortLawDoingOwnExhaustedGet

If you want to age a lot of years, become president.

Roland Martin

AgeYouWantBecomePresidentYears

A poll will give you the most popular answer but not the answer that optimizes the preference of a group.

Louis B. Rosenberg

YouGroupWillAnswerGiveMost

Man is never perfect nor contented.

Jules Verne

ManPerfectNeverContentedNor

I told my wife, 'One woman, lots of toys!'

Jason Momoa

WifeWomanToysLots

They're great songs. How many bands wouldn't like to have a 'Freebird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama' to play every night?

Johnny Van Zant

HomeGreatSweetNightPlayAlabama

I don't think any artist really knows why a song gets popular.

Chick Corea

SongThinkArtistWhyKnowsReally

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