De Sica Quotes

#1. Your biggest failure becomes your best teacher.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.

Vittorio De Sica

#3. When I walk through a forest I feel tremendous: tree-mend-us!

S.J. Cameron

#4. I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

Vittorio De Sica

#5. Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Vittorio De Sica

#6. Vancouver is the suicide capital of the country. You keep going west until you run out. You come to the edge. Then you fall off.

Margaret Atwood

#7. Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.

Bruce Feiler

#8. You should never let your picture be in a magazine or newspaper if you can help it, as you never know what ends your face may be made to serve, by others, once it has got out of your control.

Margaret Atwood

#9. My view is that I'm best able to serve my state and my country where I am.

Rob Portman

#10. Bicycle Thief is a triumphant discovery of the fundamentals of cinema, and De Sica has openly acknowledged his debt to Chaplin.

Satyajit Ray

#11. Freedom: both so priceless and so expensive.

Patricia Duncker

#12. I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.

Clint Eastwood

#13. Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.

Beeban Kidron

#14. She wanted to stay out there, to hang on her branch in the world until the cold had burned down to her bones. She could leave her whitened bones scattered on the snow and depart like light. Whitened bones. A whited sepulcher.

Adam Foulds

#15. There is no crisis in cinema. There are negative periods. There are times when some films are received well and others aren't. The past teaches us that some films were received badly, while others go sailing on.

Vittorio De Sica

#16. I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

Raekwon

#17. The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.

Beeban Kidron

#18. It's such an advantage to be able to hit short irons low on command. When it's windy, you'll hit more greens. But low shots are a great strategy in calm conditions, too: The less time the ball hangs in the air, the less time it has to stray off line from the flagstick.

Keegan Bradley

#19. I am wholly willing to be here,
Between the bright silent thousands of stars
And the life of the grass pouring out of the ground.
The hill has grown to me like a foot.
Until I lift the Earth, I cannot move.

Wendell Berry

#20. Okay. I picked up a movie to watch tonight. You can watch it with me if you like. It's a chick movie. Merri Lee said that means girls like it, not that there are small birds in it.

Anne Bishop

#21. her bathroom, likely not to surface for a while. She had agreed to

K.A. Linde

#22. 5You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

Anonymous