Alberto Moravia Quotes

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

Alberto Moravia

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• I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Myself
  • New
  • Breakfast

• I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Sleep
  • Films
  • Horror

• A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Funny

• My biggest asset is not cash - it's a large, growing, devout fanbase.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Growing
  • Cash
  • Asset

• Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Black
  • Humor
  • Sarcastic

• I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.

  

  Patrick Labyorteaux
  • Happy
  • Creative
  • Working

• Well when I woke up this morning,There was a note upon my door, Said don't make me no coffee Babe,'Cause I won't be back no more, And that's all she wrote, Dear John, I've sent your saddle home.

  

  Hank Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • She

• For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Atmosphere

• Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • People
  • Long
  • Police

• America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • America
  • Discovered
  • Hushed

• You never have to guess where you stand with me.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Guess

• Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Science
  • Sea
  • Green

• May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it's time for work to begin.

  

  H. Peter Loewer
  • Time
  • Work
  • May

• Writing is both my expression to the world and my way to hide from it - you get who I am without actually seeing me.

  

  Saraya-Jade Bevis
  • World
  • Writing
  • Expression

• You saw how long the grass was, it was very long and it spoiled the game.

  

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo
  • Game
  • Grass
  • Spoiled

• Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Way
  • Happens

• There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Remains
  • Apply
  • Maxims

• I just follow my nose, and instead of letting someone run my affairs and probably make me wealthy within a matter of years, I've just kept the board of directors down to zero. I make all the decisions, and they can't all be right, and my lifestyle is very expensive, so that means I have to work a lot. It's the opposite side of the coin from sinking back into the recliner and becoming somebody they bury.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Running
  • Mean
  • Decision

• For me, the constitutive element of an affair is the secrecy. It is the secrecy that leads to the lying, to the deception, to the duplicity. It is the structure of an affair - not the sexual or emotional behavior or what people actually are doing.

  

  Esther Perel
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Lying

• Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

  

  Siegfried Sassoon
  • Soldiers
  • Guns
  • Dreamers

• War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

  

  Alberto Moravia
  • Soldiers
  • Affair
  • Mechanics