Italo Calvino Quotes

What is modern art but the attempt to pinpoint vague, incorporeal, inexpressible sensations? What is modern art, I would add, but the most solemn pile of nonsense that ever appeared on Earth?

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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People sometimes ask who I would cast in my books and I never have any idea. I don't think I could ever write a book thinking of it as a movie the whole time. This would be like building a house and filling it with furniture just so you could have blueprints.

Jess Walter

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Cows' milk and soya milk isn't good for me. Almond milk and rice milk is OK. I don't really drink alcohol, either. Maybe wine but only sometimes.

Robert Lewandowski

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Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

Maureen O'Hara

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There was no demonstration of love I could read as a little boy.

Stewart Stern

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Our secular culture is adrift in a sea of relativism, escapism, and self-indulgent inanities, with our media and entertainment elites leading the parade.

Tom Tancredo

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For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

Tom Stoppard

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I think all The Shield boys will tell you we hold The Shield very dear to our hearts. That was our vehicle to where we are now, and to get out of developmental and out of that hot Tampa warehouse.

Roman Reigns

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Ballet was just something that I always wanted to do.

Mary Helen Bowers

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Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it gets paid for.

Michael Moore

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There's a lot of thought that goes into every single thing I wear.

Judah Friedlander

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Many years ago, Bill Gates said that one day we'd be able to click on the shoes of a character in a TV show and buy them online. Whether that happens or not, are you thinking about new ways to combine your assets in programming, customer knowledge, and technology?

Brian L. Roberts

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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