Calvino Cosmicomics Quotes

#1. See you and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best, so we can pull on through, whatever tears at us, whatever holds us down, and if nothing can be done, we'll make the best of what's around.

Dave Matthews Band

#2. At the end of the day, I'm a human being and I just think that's what it is. Challenging stereotypes by just being who I am.

Tinie Tempah

#3. In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Italo Calvino

#4. If you don't prepare, you could lose everything. If you prepare for the worst and nothing happens, you've lost nothing.

Gerald Celente

#5. Mrs. Leene says I should think about people in the present tense.
"It forces you to take responsibility for them," she says.

Adam Rapp

#6. The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#7. To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.

Berenice Abbott

#8. The real question one should ask when presented with a puzzle is, 'Should I solve it? Do I really need to know the answer?

Tony DiTerlizzi

#9. All my life I wanted to play golf like Jack Nicklaus, and now I do.

Paul Harvey

#10. Our Founding Fathers understood that our country would survive and flourish if our Nation was committed to good character and an unyielding dedication to liberty and justice for all.

George W. Bush

#11. Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.

Barbara Tuchman