Alessandro Baricco Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
-
I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
-
On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.
-
The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
-
For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
-
I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
-
I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.
-
It's brutal out on the football field.
-
The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
-
Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
-
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
-
It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
-
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
-
I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
-
I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
-
Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.
-
However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
-
Though I thoroughly enjoyed playing crime branch officer Gautam Savant, it drained a lot out of me, too. It shook my faith in myself, as I explored my hidden side and wondered if I was just acting or using the character as an excuse to vent my mean side.
-
Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality.
-
The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
-
The audience, the place youre in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.
-
But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.
-
The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.
-
This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.
