Andrea Camilleri Quotes

The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.

Andrea Camilleri

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• I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Child

• Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.

  

  Raf Simons
  • History
  • Culture
  • Question

• I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Family
  • Father
  • Fight

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Great
  • Art
  • Study

• Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Voice
  • Need
  • Solitude

• While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Brain
  • Sometimes
  • Creative

• But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Products
  • Buying

• My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Great
  • Character
  • Dad

• But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Believe
  • Money

• If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Want
  • You
  • Going

• At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Clean
  • Sober
  • Ponytail

• I got stuff that's going to hurt for the rest of my life.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Hurt

• As an actor, there is always an opportunity to learn from the other actors you work with.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Learn

• You can educate people on how to preempt their own conflict.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • You
  • Conflict

• My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Up
  • May
  • Job

• There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Stop
  • Doubt
  • Results

• I've been pretty lucky - or slothful - in that I've never been a "career builder," I take the jobs that come along that feel right, and that's left me fairly open to all genres, really. But with "Caprica," the complex, dark and very smart script was the draw.

  

  Eric Stoltz
  • Career
  • Jobs
  • Script

• Memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Like
  • Memory

• “People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.”

  

  Amitav Ghosh
  • Memory
  • Grandmother
  • Recollection

• You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

  

  Anatoly Chubais

• The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.

  

  Andrea Camilleri
  • Memory
  • Clearer
  • Aged