Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

Antonio Tabucchi

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• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Love
  • History

• Along with racial equality and the late bloom of women's rights, future generations will have to explain how, in the past, gays were misunderstood and publicly humiliated for loving each other, and, eventually, how they stood together and conquered stupidity and hypocritical hatred, and fought their way out of marginalization.

  

  iO Tillett Wright
  • Women
  • Together
  • Future

• Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. Actually, if you follow a formula, you will probably end up with a bad movie.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Up
  • Work
  • Bad

• Big cities do evoke a sense of menace.

  

  Otto Penzler
  • Sense
  • Cities
  • Big

• I always say when it comes to dream matches, that is not up to me: that's up to the WWE Universe. That's up to the fans. But there is a guy on 'SmackDown' that I have yet to wrestle yet that's certainly gonna happen at some point, and that's Randy Orton.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Dream

• I feel like, in some level, in our biggest moments of success we were always the underdog.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Success
  • Moments
  • Underdog

• When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Live
  • You

• I've always wanted to be on an original cast recording. I grew up listening to them, and now to know that my voice is heard on three or four of them is just surreal. I never thought I would be that person.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Listening

• Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.

  

  Margaret Atwood

• The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.

  

  Jaycie Phelps
  • Risk

• I'm working my way toward divinity.

  

  Bette Midler

• I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Character

• Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Style

• It's an honor to have been part of something so core to so many lives. The show has evolved beyond it's original intent and form and has transcended... itself!

  

  Christopher Knight
  • Honor

• Facebook's position with rival tech companies boils down to this: if you want access to all the information we've collected, strike a deal with us.

  

  Daniel Lyons

• Things can change on a daily basis in television. You can be introduced to aspects of your character that you had no idea existed because they didn't exist a week before. The next week it might be taken away from you in some way that you can't control.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • Character
  • Control
  • Taken

• It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

  

  David Hockney
  • Good
  • Work
  • Believe

• When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.

  

  David R. Brower
  • People
  • Trying
  • Thoughts

• Whatever I gain from writing lyrics, I feel I lose a little bit for the musical aspect by having that lyrical burden on me. But when I'm liberated from worrying about the words, frankly, I feel I'm a better composer.

  

  Alan Menken
  • Words
  • Composer
  • Worrying

• Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Sleep

• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Nature
  • Sleep
  • Nurse

• The precise instant of creation is when you choose the subject. Meaning that the essential thing occurs at the moment when he, the photographer, meets the reality he wishes to capture.

  

  Brassaï
  • Reality
  • Choose
  • Creation

• There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Eye
  • Dimensions
  • Mundane

• I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi
  • Insomnia