Pier Paolo Pasolini Quotes

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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• The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Me
  • Right
  • Kiss

• This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Right
  • Police
  • Dangerous

• What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Reading

• It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.

  

  Bam Margera
  • People
  • Play
  • Weird

• Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Right
  • Everything
  • Stage

• I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Believe
  • Book
  • Right

• He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.

  

  Xenophon
  • Pleasure
  • Most
  • Sauce

• Women would rather be right than reasonable.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Women
  • Right
  • Rather

• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Painting
  • Matter
  • Pleasure

• The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • Reading
  • Pleasure
  • Greatest

• Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Country
  • Free
  • Way

• My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Pleasure
  • Create
  • Copy

• I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Time
  • Work
  • Pleasure

• Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Always
  • Right
  • Still

• If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Right
  • Aim

• I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Right
  • Match
  • Tina Fey

• Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Right
  • Choose
  • Guest

• I'll make a general comment about this whole dependence on 'celebrities.' I object to this situation as it is right now, where they have inadvertently or manipulatively become the spokespeople for the African continent.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Right
  • Situation
  • Now

• Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Pleasure
  • Wells

• As strange as it may sound, I think I'm a lot more at peace with the fact that you can't guarantee you're going to be all right at any time.

  

  Alan Sparhawk
  • Peace
  • Right
  • Guarantee

• Let me just tell you this, Watanabe," said Midori, pressing her cheek against my neck. "I'm a real, live girl, with real, live blood gushing through my veins. You're holding me in your arms and I'm telling you that I love you. I'm ready to do anything you tell me to do. I may be a little bit mad, but I'm a good girl, and honest, and I work hard, I'm kind of cute, I have nice boobs, I'm a good cook, and my father left me a trust fund. I mean, I'm a real bargain, don't you think? If you don't take me, I'll end up going somewhere else.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Girl
  • Blood
  • My Father

• The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Ancient

• Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Passion
  • Ambition
  • Comparison

• I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

  

  Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Right
  • Pleasure
  • Scandalize