Ugo Betti Quotes
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
Quotes to Explore
-
I converse with my dog through ESP.
-
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
-
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
-
So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
-
It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
-
Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
-
You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.
-
People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
-
My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
-
I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
-
I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
-
At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
-
I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
-
When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
-
Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
-
The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.
-
A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
-
My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
-
I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
-
Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.
-
Style is what makes you different, it's your own stamp, a message about yourself.
-
I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
-
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
