Cesare Pavese Quotes
Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
Quotes to Explore
-
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
-
There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.
-
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.
-
I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.
-
In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
-
The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.
-
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
-
The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
-
I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
-
I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
-
I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
-
The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
-
I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
-
The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
-
I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
-
They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'
-
The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
-
You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.
-
Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.
-
I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.
-
I grew up in this industry. I'm a third generation actor, and I believe strongly that life and career are two different things. Career is inside my life. I'm also a photographer, a pianist, and lots of different things, so my life consists of so many different elements that there are moments when I have to step away and be me.
-
A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat "Do as you would be done by" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God.
-
I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.
-
Narrating incredible things as though they were real old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible the new.
