Italo Calvino Love Quotes

#1. The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

Fernando Botero

#2. Even present-day fuels possess more than enough energy, if only we knew how to release and use it. Just as molecular energy is so freely used to-day, so atomic energy may bring interplantary travel within easy reach to-morrow.

P. E. Cleator

#3. I've been in love for five hundred million years ...

Italo Calvino

#4. ... we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.

Italo Calvino

#5. To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being ... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.

Italo Calvino

#6. The opposite of every great idea is another great idea.

Niels Bohr

#7. Her breast was young, the nipples rosy. Cosimo just grazed it with his lips, before Viola slid away over the branches as if she were flying, with him clambering after her, and that skirt of hers always in his face

Italo Calvino

#8. My feeling is that nuclear is a distraction. It stops us doing what we all know we need to do invest urgently in renewables.

Marc Edwards

#9. In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Italo Calvino

#10. Cosimo did not yet know love, and what is any experience without that? What point is there in risking life, when the real flavor of life is as yet unknown?

Italo Calvino

#11. A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

Italo Calvino

#12. I majored in political science, and my concentration was U.S. involvement in Latin America in the 20th century.

Sebastian Arcelus

#13. The diagnosis is clear, the science in unequivocal-it's completely immoral, even, to question now, on the basis of what we know, the reports that are out, to question the issue and to question whether we need to move forward at a much stronger pace as humankind to address the issues.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#14. Hey live for each other; their eyes are interlocked but there is not love between them.

Italo Calvino

#15. Jesus was not tempted to see if He would fall. He was tempted to show that He could not fall.

J. Vernon McGee

#16. Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle of creation. In the beauty of that aloneness, and in how you respond to it, you will find your passion.

Michele Cassou

#17. If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love.

Italo Calvino

#18. Trust doesn't mean that you trust that someone won't screw up - it means you trust them even when they do screw up.

Ed Catmull

#19. It was the love which the hunter has for living things, and which he can only express by aiming his gun at them ...

Italo Calvino