User:Pdanese/Quotes

Some quotes that I think are interesting.

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  And even if we are occupied with important things, and even if we attain honor or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together, united by a good and a kind feeling which made us…perhaps better than we are. —Translation of an excerpt from The Karamazov Brothers. It's probably too long and expensive, but if I had to put something on my tombstone, this would be it.
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  When I'm dead, I'm dead. I ain't going to remember nothing. —Larry Holmes. Another 🪦 contender.
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  I woke up this morning, didn't recognize the man in the mirror / Then I laughed, and I said, "Oh, silly me, that's just me". —Opening lyrics from Kurt Vile's song, Pretty Pimpin'. The song might not be about Alzheimer's, but that's all I think of when I hear it.
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  I think that's what the children of immigrants do, all of us. We know what they gave up. They gave up their countries. [In] some cases, they gave up their languages. They worked at the lousiest rottenest jobs ... to put food on our tables. We have to honor that -- for the rest of our lives. —Pete Hamill
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  For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law. —Óscar Benavides
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  If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie. — Slim Charles, played by Anwan Glover on The Wire. Yep.
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  Only occasionally can you glimpse through the embrasures of an otherwise perfectly polite person to see the cannons aimed out, only in a certain glint of light do the eyeteeth become fangs. We are driven by desire and fear. Only in our solitary hungers do we find ourselves capable of the most magnificently unexpected sins. —excerpt from Michael Paterniti's book Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain.
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  Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. it means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. it's basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. being a geek is extremely liberating. —Simon Pegg. This quote reminds me of some people I admire.
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  "Fuck you," Lippmann had said. "I'm short your house." —Michael Lewis. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. A lot of what Michael Lewis writes seems embellished and too good to be true. But I like this for its directness.
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  I never went looking for trouble. But if you brought some to me, I wasn't gonna turn it down. —Carmine Danese, Abbateggiano
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  Money ain't everything. Unless you don't got any. —Valentino Pascetta, San Valentineso.
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  I don’t give a shit about the Italian lira. —Richard M. Nixon on being asked by H.R. Haldeman if he wanted to hear a report on the decline of the Italian lira.
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  Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is. —Leslie Lamport. Ain't that the sad truth.
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  A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. —H.H. Munro. This is my guiding philosophy.
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  The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer —Henry Kissinger
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  The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. —Jules Renard. I am not free.
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  There is something in statistics that makes it very similar to astrology. —Gian-Carlo Rota
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  Amo talmente tanto la Germania che ne preferivo due. I love Germany so much that I preferred it when there were two of them. —Attributed to Giulio Andreotti, but others said it, too.
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  Il vino si fa anche con l'uva. Ecco quando e' meglio. Wine can even be made from grapes. In fact, that's when it's best. Not sure I have the quote exactly right, but something like this is repeated in Giuseppe Tornatore's 1990 film, Stanno Tutti Bene.
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  Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library. —JL Borges. Amen.
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  When pygmies cast such long shadows, it must be very late in the day. —Gian-Carlo Rota, reviewing John Passmore's book, Recent Philosophers. Not a fan of modern philosophers.
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  What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. —Oscar Levant
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  A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. —Segal's Law
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  The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology — E.O. Wilson, 2009
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  Nature imitates mathematics —Gian-Carlo Rota
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  Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. —Federico Fellini
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  God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again. —Federico Fellini
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  The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borghese on a daily basis. —Federico Fellini We could all use periodic visits to the Galleria Borghese.
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  "La culture, c'est comme la confiture. Moins on on a, plus on l'étale" Knowledge is like jam, the less you have, the more you [try to] spread it. —Unknown
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  No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude. —Hemingway

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