Alberto Moravia Quotes
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
Quotes to Explore
-
Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
-
This was just one of many times God has spared me.
-
What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
-
It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
-
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
-
I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
-
If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.
-
Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
-
I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
-
Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
-
No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
-
I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
-
I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
-
Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
-
A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
-
We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
-
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
-
Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
-
To this day, I can't watch my own sex scenes.
-
That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
-
With a runner at second base with nobody out, you're trying to punch somebody out. You understand when there are guys in scoring position; hitters like to be aggressive early.
-
A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.
-
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.
-
Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.
