Italo Calvino Quotes

A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

Italo Calvino

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985

Topics

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With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.

Jenny Shipley

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Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

John Greenleaf Whittier

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Maybe I just look at things as a humanist: I like looking at people in a realistic way more than looking at them in a positive way.

Stromae

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My children know I would never call anyone to give my son or daughter a break.

Mithun Chakraborty

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Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.

Liv Ullmann

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Bill Bennett really became an idol for me. I listened to him every morning from 6 to 9 for, oh, years.

Jonathan Krohn

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I'm not a horror guy, it's not my thing, but I respect it a lot. I know how hard it is to make, especially to make good.

Jonathan Tucker

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We'll continue to take the right actions to make sure we're a profitable business.

Dennis Muilenburg

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I wouldn't argue that anyone living can play the trumpet better than Wynton Marsalis.

Christian Scott

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I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'

Clint Eastwood

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Gender-based job restrictions tend to be associated with wider wage gaps and lower employment rates for women. And where girls' future earning potential is limited, families may choose to send their brothers to school instead.

Arancha Gonzalez

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I hate when people cheat.

Shane Dawson

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