Dacia Maraini Quotes

The waves have the habit of going forward and then flowing back.

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• You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Up
  • Different
  • Learn

• I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Night
  • Star
  • Sun

• I seemed to have been born reading.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Reading
  • Born
  • Been

• This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Reality
  • Immigration
  • Trail

• Growing up on a mountain in Tennessee, I spent most of my childhood outside.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• Many environmental battles are won by delaying a destructive project long enough to change the conversation - to allow new economic, political and social dynamics to emerge.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Long
  • Political
  • Change

• The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Education
  • Teacher
  • Thought

• It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Good
  • Me
  • Reputation

• All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
  • Past
  • Creativity

• Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Children
  • Love
  • Grandfather

• I exist as I am, that is enough.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Enough
  • Exist

• Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Life
  • Door
  • Walking

• Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Just
  • Cause
  • Stands

• Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Writing
  • You
  • Gambling

• The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the attempt is to reach a much more limited audience - one would say an audience that enjoys films that challenge them emotionally and intellectually.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Challenge
  • Goal
  • Movies

• Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Understanding

• What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--but a human thought caught and bound, made concrete through sacred technology. Magic, then, and a deep form of it.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Book
  • Technology
  • Processes

• I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I was growing up and getting more serious about acting, at that point, he was the biggest actor in the world.

  

  Iain De Caestecker
  • Up
  • World
  • Love

• What's amazing is that I'm recognized all over the world through 'Red Dwarf.' British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. It makes you feel like a rock star!

  

  Craig Charles
  • World
  • American
  • Amazing

• I don't care about being on top, about being No. 1. I just make movies for a few suckers in the audience, anyway.

  

  John Cassavetes

• The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • People
  • Time
  • Together

• The waves have the habit of going forward and then flowing back.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Habit
  • Waves
  • Wave