Antonio Tabucchi Quotes

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Antonio Tabucchi

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• The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Nature

• I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Mean

• My greatest regret is selling my company.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Regret
  • Company
  • Greatest

• I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.

  

  Hank Snow
  • Done
  • Wanted
  • Everything

• I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Country
  • History
  • Original

• One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Life
  • Common
  • Intelligence

• Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

  

  Jack Welch
  • King
  • Competition
  • Communication

• When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Different
  • Long
  • Hair

• I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Different
  • Know
  • Development

• There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Want
  • Democracy

• It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Odd
  • Playwright

• I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • People
  • Want
  • Clothes

• Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Trying
  • Job

• With our growing attachment to the online universe comes a refined ability to keep tabs on several things at once, to watch stories unfold on parallel planes.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Growing
  • Universe
  • Watch

• In terms of work, obviously acting is such a job that is very in the flesh kind of thing. It's your work, but it's your life, in a way. You can get so mixed up.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Back during the most dramatic and challenging time in our history, when we first came together with wolves, we had no idea that it was changing everything, but we literally evolved together. Without us there would be no dogs, and vice versa.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Time
  • History
  • Together

• I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Universe

• I sometimes wonder why the aristocracy isn’t extinct, the lot of you seem so stupid sometimes.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Why
  • Wonder
  • Stupid

• This one fact alone, Rachmael reflected, should have frightened the rational citizen. But-The people did not know. The media had not reported it.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • People
  • Alone

• You wouldn't take me to be a Skrillex fan, but honestly, when I'm at his shows, I get high and liquored up, and I just go in the crowd and start raving.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Up
  • High
  • Shows

• As far as my sketches, I've always loved 'What's Up With That.' It's just a whole lot of fun, and I love 'Black Jeopardy,' too. Any kind of host capacity, I'm usually pretty good at.

  

  Kenan Thompson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fun

• Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Reading

• No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.

  

  John Heywood
  • Horse

• I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi