Invisible Cities Italo Calvino Quotes

#1. Well, I don't know, yet," the dragonet said, "but I mean to find a way: just because the business will be difficult is no excuse for not making the attempt.

Naomi Novik

#2. Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?

Ken Robinson

#3. Clarice, the glorious city, has a tormented history. Several times it decayed, then burgeoned again, always keeping the first Clarice as an unparalleled model of every splendor, compared to which the city's present state can only cause more sighs at every fading of the stars.

Italo Calvino

#4. Seeing, observing, listening, these are the greatest acts

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#5. Each new Clarice, compact as a living body with its smells and its breath, shows off, like a gem, what remains of the ancient Clarices, fragmentary and dead.

Italo Calvino

#6. Dan Cahill thought he had the most annoying big sister on the planet. And that was before she set fire to two million dollars.

Rick Riordan

#7. Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#8. It's almost worth retiring just so I can speak to you ...

Alex Zanardi

#9. I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.

Garth Brooks

#10. I love how you are focused on your future and everyone else can kiss your ass.

Colleen Hoover

#11. I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war.

W. Eugene Smith

#12. A real wolf would finish a wounded animal.

George R R Martin

#13. Revenge isn't always as sweet as it seems

Sarah Jakes

#14. Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning, having nothing to do other than be what it is, no longer able to go beyond itself or give itself some kind of meaning through action.

Georges Bataille

#15. Wind of the night, Questing, swaying, calling, Rustle of dull grasses, Why do you trouble me?

John Gould Fletcher