De Luca Quotes

#1. I tell you one you straight off in Scotland - Nick de Luca. I don't see his name quoted, but I've played against Nick quite a lot and he is a good player - one of the trickiest centres I've played against.

Brian O'Driscoll

#2. I remember going to see those Adrian Lyne films when I was going to see movies in the nineties, and I was jealous he wasn't working at New Line.

Michael De Luca

#3. Because Mateo Torres is loud, and I'm quiet. Because he's reckless, and I'm cautious. Because he belongs everywhere, and I don't.
Because I think I'm in danger of falling in love with him.

Cora Carmack

#4. I love being on set.

Michael De Luca

#5. Studios are an assembly line. They can be a very good assembly line. As a producer, you concentrate on one project at a time. As an executive, you're in charge of a slate.

Michael De Luca

#6. I like people who can't die in their bed.

Erri De Luca

#7. I've never thought intelligence was age-related.

Michael De Luca

#8. I started to get grossed out by the armpits.

Michael De Luca

#9. You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold its grip till anger has turned you into a soldier.

Erri De Luca

#10. It's disgusting to kill, Laila. You never get rid of death's grease. It doesn't wash away.

Erri De Luca

#11. You're right to say "hold on to" instead of "keep." To keep is presumptuous. To hold means you realize that today it's yours and tomorrow who knows.

Erri De Luca

#12. Great photography comes about at the right time but it also needs the right cut that enhances that precise moment ... Photography must feed on both contents and form, if it gives up the one for the other it is not going to last.

Augusto De Luca

#13. Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene ... For me, it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.

Michael De Luca

#14. I feel like a sailor, or better, like an explorer of the immense universe of art. The artist is a discoverer in search of the keys that open the door to emotions and feelings . Art is the place where rationality, fantasy, truth and fiction mix up in a detonating mixture.

Augusto De Luca

#15. The geometry of the things around us creates coincidences, intersections.

Erri De Luca

#16. The golden era of the golden number was the Italian renaissance. The expression divine proportion was coined by the great mathematician Luca Pacioli in his book 'De divina proportione', written in 1509.

Midhat Gazale

#17. I saw all those great '70s films when I was 9, and no one in my Brooklyn neighborhood cared if a kid watched an R movie.

Michael De Luca

#18. I love you because that piece that remains is worth the whole and I love you by exclusion of the other lost pieces.

Erri De Luca

#19. When you get homesick, it's not something missing, it's something present, a visit. People and places from far away arrive and keep you company for a while.

Erri De Luca

#20. I can hardly keep track of the things I don't know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic.

Erri De Luca

#21. First and foremost I feel I am a child of God ... Today I think that everything matters, but like a nice game of relative importance and value, certainly not absolute like conversion.

Augusto De Luca

#22. 'Social Network' is a good story with human experience connective tissue that makes it ageless.

Michael De Luca

#23. If such a thing can just happen, did they discuss it? Or did they just know?

Kyle De Luca

#24. I don't sweat the Internet. You know, it's still something I enjoy as a movie geek myself to get on and, like, look at all the websites; however, when it comes to marketing a movie, the Internet is still not the thing that gets people to the theatre.

Michael De Luca

#25. Nothing compares to pizza, and you discover and rediscover it when you are much too old, and you have got too much cholesterol and triglycerides ... A collector is someone who is ready to devour the work of art that he wants to possess at all costs.

Augusto De Luca

#26. The spoon is a reader's friend, scooping from the plate almost by itself. The fork requires more attention.

Erri De Luca

#27. Sometimes, I have to look twice at you just to see if you're actually real. That much beauty is dangerous.

Skyla Madi

#28. My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.

Michael De Luca

#29. Sometimes to take two steps in a row, one after the other, I need to make a contract with myself.

Erri De Luca

#30. Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.

Michael De Luca

#31. Nothing is more exciting than being around new talent when it emerges.

Michael De Luca

#32. I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood.

Michael De Luca

#33. Every town has an Elm Street.

Michael De Luca

#34. I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world.

Erri De Luca

#35. All my photographs seep through EMOTION , through the relationship I establish with the place I am portraying. Whenever I see something that captivates me, I start turning around it to find MY OWN frame. I work on myself and on the city at the same time.

Augusto De Luca

#36. Death that tears away clumps of us folks, stuffs thousands of the living, freshly plucked into its sack.

Erri De Luca

#37. War is when young men dream of being grandfathers.

Erri De Luca

#38. Do you really know yourself so well or are you making it up?' she asks. Some things I concoct, some I glean from my senses, most I thirst for.

Erri De Luca

#39. This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae.

Erri De Luca

#40. The "Sabrina" neckline of Audrey's long sheath dress was designed by her friend Hubert de Givenchy to hide her prominent collarbone.

Luca Dotti

#41. I was a bookish kid, not really athletic.

Michael De Luca

#42. The thing I can't remember is, what came first? Us or the book?

Michael De Luca

#43. I was a huge 'Sopranos' fan, obviously.

Michael De Luca

#44. I'm not that man anymore. No one can stay that way too long. That's why wars end and a later generation catches its breath looking forward and erasing what's behind.

Erri De Luca

#45. 'Chronicle' could have been a video-game movie. The original 'RoboCop' and the remake could have come from video games.

Michael De Luca

#46. I learned in a very public setting what works and doesn't work for a healthy lifestyle.

Michael De Luca

#47. That's how you keep someone tied to you, not set them free. You say no to a man and don't give him the peace of repayment.

Erri De Luca

#48. A man dies and his skin loses heat like the sand on a summer evening. It makes you feel like warming him up.

Erri De Luca

#49. Build your house with the stones they hurled at you

Erri De Luca

#50. On the brink of sleep I have a gloomy thought: that saving yourself is only pushing yourself even deeper into the trap rather than getting out. Dying is the only way out.

Erri De Luca

#51. I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.

Augusto De Luca