Starnone Domenico Quotes & Sayings

Referring to my desire to appropriate Italian, he [Domenico Starnone] wrote, 'A new language is almost a new life, grammar and syntax recast you, you slip into another logic and another sensibility.' How much those words reassured me ... They contained all my yearning, all my disorientation. Reading this message, I understood better the impulse to express myself in a new language. To subject myself, as a writer, to a metamorphosis. — Jhumpa Lahiri

I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face. — Selma Blair

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak. — Larry McMurtry

One artificially intelligent supercomputer pretending to be a hostile alien race for the purpose of testing humanity's character? — Ernest Cline

I am a former child, and I haven't forgotten a thing. — Ursula Nordstrom

In royal service, soldiers and sailors were often expected to provide for themselves by preying on the civilian population: commandeering, raping, looting, taking prizes. When demobilized, they commonly continued the same practices, but without the same royal protection; demobilized ships became pirate vessels, demobilized troops bandits. — Steven Pinker

Jimi was a good guy 'til he got into drugs. That's the way it is. I just tell it like it is. — Dick Dale

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left. — Jay Leno

Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal. — Branch Rickey

Turn your nightmares into your dreams , some dreams don't turn out the way you want them to , then wake up and turn and turn it around in your favour. — Salman Khan

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit. — Tanith Lee

How many presidents, do you think, ever said to another guy: 'I can't believe we're doing this in the White House'? — Greg Behrendt

When had I tamed myself? It had been a lengthy apprenticeship, begun when I was as young as ten, and continued relentlessly throughout my adolescence, when I had discovered to my own terror that I wanted to murder somebody: my father, a sarcastic friend, my professor of Latin and Greek, even a rude passerby. It was not until I was almost twenty that I began to suspect that, along with the repression of my violent impulses, I had repressed everything, even my ability to experience a profound emotion, even my impulse to do good deeds and help others. I had become as good as I had hoped to be, but good with the cautious detachment of one who never indulges in excess. — Domenico Starnone

The source of man is in man,and when a man dies,millions of men die in him. — Michael Bassey Johnson

At the beginning of every role I take, I have to start from basics and build it up. It's like a new construction. — Kim Cattrall

I chose you. It was always you. From the first moment I held you, I knew you were mine. — Ashlan Thomas

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory. — Leonardo Da Vinci