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Thing Quotes by Italo Calvino
- If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is…
- The book I'm looking for,' says the blurred figure, who holds out a volume similar to yours, 'is the one that gives the sense of…
- For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave.…
- So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens by chance to girls). It was the…
- Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there are only levels, is something…
- Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing…
- The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge…
- You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that…
- At times the mirror increases a thing’s value, at times denies it.
- I speak and speak,” Marco says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. The description of the world to which you lend…
- I change my method and field of reference from book to book because I can never believe in the same thing two times running.
More Thing Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing. — J. J. Abrams
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong