Italo Calvino Quotes

It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.

Italo Calvino

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• Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Today
  • Countries
  • Within

• With Ghost Tunes, you just try to do what's right. And what's right is whatever the copyright owner wants to do with their music, they do it.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Try
  • Ghost

• There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Great
  • Singing
  • Voices

• I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Up
  • Look
  • Ghost

• I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and then it's gone.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Theatre
  • Performance
  • Ghost

• It is only when the partisan shouting stops that we can hear each other's voices and concerns.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Hear
  • Voices
  • Shouting

• Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Today
  • Building
  • Ghost

• There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • World
  • Voices
  • Layering

• I'm pretty sure my house in Florida is haunted! He's a nice ghost though.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Pretty
  • House
  • Nice

• If we begin to stop spewing the negative and really move into using our voices and our pens and our abilities that we have to reach millions of people to the positive, we can make a difference in the world.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • World
  • Stop

• You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • She
  • Words
  • Interesting

• It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Home
  • Enough
  • Ghost

• You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • World
  • America

• I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Different
  • Sing
  • Voices

• World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Violence
  • Emotion

• That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Intelligence
  • Ghost
  • Familiar

• I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

  

  William Booth
  • Heaven
  • Christ
  • Hell

• Wish You Were Here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skys from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange A walk on part in the war For a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.

  

  Roger Waters Pink Floyd
  • Wish
  • Pain
  • Heaven

• Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Religion
  • West
  • South

• We have to diversify, we have to find work we can do that helps other people while helping ourselves, work that has to do with writing that isn't necessarily just writing saleable novels or getting huge advances.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • People
  • Writing
  • Helping

• If he smiled much more, the ends of his mouth might meet behind, and then I don't know what would happen to his head! I'm afraid it would come off!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Head
  • Meet
  • Smiled

• Football kickers are like taxi cabs. You can always go out and hire another one.

  

  Buddy Ryan
  • Football kickers
  • Taxi cabs

• It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.

  

  Italo Calvino
  • Ghost
  • Voices
  • Within