Alberto Moravia Quotes

In principio, dunque, era la noia, volgarmente chiamata caos. Iddio, annoiandosi della noia, creò la terra, il cielo, l'acqua, gli animali, le piante, Adamo ed Èva; i quali ultimi, annoiandosi a loro volta in paradiso, mangiarono il frutto proibito. Iddio si annoiò di loro e li cacciò dall'Eden.

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• In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • History
  • Politics

• I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Always
  • Childhood

• I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Opportunity
  • Because
  • Window

• You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Live
  • Know
  • Afraid

• Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
  • Passion
  • Mountain

• There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Men
  • Like
  • Hustle

• I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Mother

• It's important for people of colour to have the opportunities to play characters that are as nuanced - as three-dimensional, as human - as the characters who we traditionally see getting to play the protagonist. The good guys and the bad guys. The reason that is important is because it's a better reflection of the reality of the world we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.

  

  Walter Murch
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Sports
  • Say

• It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Myself
  • Ethics
  • Journalism

• I am a contrarian.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Contrarian

• Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Power
  • Far
  • Global

• New York is such a diverse place in and of itself, it would be ridiculous to see it otherwise.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • See
  • Place
  • New York

• We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Work
  • Done
  • Help

• Public figures will get public criticism, and they should be tolerant enough to take it.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Enough
  • Criticism
  • Will

• If somebody says 'singer-songwriter' to me, the first person I think of is James Taylor. There are plenty of modern singer-songwriters, but there is something about James Taylor that has always resonated with me.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Think
  • Me
  • Person

• I try and make it possible for beginners to start training MMA and not be scared of it as a sport. I try to actually give them the skill set that is necessary - to feel comfortable, maybe not on a big level. And not just Russia, but worldwide.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Training
  • Start
  • Skill

• I want my kids to know that what I do is work. It's fun, it's a great job, but it's work.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Work
  • Great
  • Job

• Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Work
  • Great
  • Forever

• A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.

  

  Atle Selberg
  • Proof
  • Theorem
  • Conjecture

• Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars.

  

  Delia Sherman
  • Poetry
  • Essence
  • Particulars

• Women can endure pain with fortitude, and they can perform monotonous tasks with patience.

  

  Melvil Dewey
  • Tasks
  • Fortitude
  • Monotonous

• In principio, dunque, era la noia, volgarmente chiamata caos. Iddio, annoiandosi della noia, creò la terra, il cielo, l'acqua, gli animali, le piante, Adamo ed Èva; i quali ultimi, annoiandosi a loro volta in paradiso, mangiarono il frutto proibito. Iddio si annoiò di loro e li cacciò dall'Eden.

  

  Alberto Moravia