Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

Antonio Tabucchi

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• I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• I'm here today because I hated everything else.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Today
  • Everything
  • Here

• I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Good
  • Independent

• I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Army
  • Jail
  • Oppose

• The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Girl
  • Dark
  • Years

• I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Face
  • Going
  • Used

• A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Good
  • Story
  • Meal

• I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Age
  • Angry
  • Old

• I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • Successful
  • Internet

• I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Long
  • Black
  • Style

• I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Good
  • American
  • Earth

• Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Home
  • Myself
  • Boy

• People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • People
  • Good
  • Dance

• Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Europe
  • Italy
  • Switzerland

• I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Like
  • Facts

• Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.

  

  Ovid
  • Powerful
  • Habit
  • Nothing

• He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire human race as one soul and one body.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Desire

• Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Single

• Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • People
  • Better
  • Begin

• Alex O'Loughlin is an old friend. Actually, when he first came to L.A., he stayed at my house.

  

  Martin Henderson
  • House
  • Friend

• I wrote 'Ruined' and 'Vera Stark' at the same time. That's just how my brain functions - when I'm dwelling someplace very heavy, I need a release.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Time
  • Brain

• Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and space exploration. The fire he stole can be seen, too, as the spark generating all artistic creativity.

  

  Neil MacGregor
  • Different
  • Science
  • Space

• There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi