Italo Calvino Lightness Quotes

#1. I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films. - Author: Barry Sonnenfeld

#2. There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. Your future shifts and warps with your smallest step, your shitty little whims. The man you will become is at your mercy. - Author: Dan Chaon

#3. The free-market economist Friedrich von Hayek once said that "without a theory, the facts are silent." But for Greenspan, with his theory, the facts became invisible. - Author: Anonymous

#4. this lightness is something created in the writing, using the linguistic tools of the poet, independent of whatever philosophical doctrine the poet claims to be following. - Author: Italo Calvino

#5. Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness. - Author: Italo Calvino

#6. Thoughtful lightness can make frivolity seem dull and heavy. - Author: Italo Calvino

#7. In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things. - Author: Edward Young

#8. At this point we must remind ourselves that the idea that the world is made up of weightless atoms surprises us because we have experienced the weight of things. Similarly, we could not admire the lightness of language if we had not also learned to admire language endowed with weight. - Author: Italo Calvino

#9. You smell salty," he says. "Like the ocean." He leans closer to me and licks up the side of my face. "You taste salty too. Maybe I should grab a bottle of tequila and we should have some fun." He moves his eyebrows up and down. "What do you say? We'll do some shots and I'll lick you all over. - Author: Jillian Dodd