Italo Calvino Quotes

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.

Italo Calvino

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• I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Know
  • Look
  • Impossible

• The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Want
  • Know
  • Queen

• I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Know
  • Two
  • Doodle

• In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • Know
  • Fashion

• It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Work
  • Different
  • Know

• I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Help
  • Know
  • Die

• I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Moment

• Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Thought

• Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

  

  Xenophon
  • Know
  • Grief
  • Sympathy

• I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Women
  • Want
  • Know

• He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Speak
  • Does

• I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Me
  • Smart

• I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Know

• The people who watch Fox are not going to watch CNN. You know, let's be honest.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • People
  • Know
  • Fox

• Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Why
  • You
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• You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Know
  • Research

• I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Career
  • Know
  • Doing

• Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

  

  Gary Becker
  • More
  • Punishment
  • Offenders

• In short, Mr. Ryan’s plan is devoid of credible math or hard policy choices. And it couldn’t pass even if Republicans were to take the presidency and both houses of Congress. Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan have no plan to take on Wall Street, the Fed, the military-industrial complex, social insurance or the nation’s fiscal calamity and no plan to revive capitalist prosperity - just empty sermons.

  

  David Stockman
  • House
  • Choices
  • Wall

• I'm just a huge fan of smells, first of all. I have a bit of an obsession with smells.

  

  Jessica Stroup

• It was a very, very strange experience to go through on social media. Before that, my social media life had been very tame. I had only just dipped my toes in the world of Twitter and was throwing out a tweet, here and there, of very boring and normal stuff. All of a sudden, Pornstache just turned my world upside down.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Life
  • World
  • Experience

• The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

  

  H. L. Mencken

• The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves.

  

  Italo Calvino
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  • Universe
  • Mirror