Top 100 Luigi Quotes
#1. I had a teacher, he was 86 years old and his name was Luigi in New York City, and he said, 'Never stop moving. You get to reinvent yourself.' So you have to find ways to reinventing yourself. Especially today, because it's a whole different market - social media is so important.
Ben Vereen
#2. Those five days we were locked up together at Vasa Luigi's, that wasn't an effect of the imprisonment, was it? That's the way you really are, when you're well?"
"Pretty much," he admitted.
"I've always wondered what adult hyperactives did for a living.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#3. You know, I somehow envisioned embracing motherhood differently. Not at thirty-five, without a partner, and knocked up by a gigolo who might or might not be named Luigi.
Elle Aycart
#4. Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#5. Here we don't drink coffee, we 'take' it, as a medicine," echoed his business partner, Luigi Solito. "To me, the philosophy of the suspended coffee is that you are happy today, and you give a coffee to the world, as a present.
Anonymous
#6. A Mario Brother never says 'can't', Luigi!
Mario
#7. Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn't it?
Luigi Pirandello
#8. It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.
Luigi Orione
#9. THE STEP-DAUGHTER: At present, we are unknown to the public. Tomorrow, you will act us as you wish, treating us in your own manner. But do you really want to see drama, do you want to see it flash out as it really did?
Luigi Pirandello
#11. We get paid to hang out in this beautiful court! Four puppets on a string, just like those two up there (pointing to the two hanging puppets), waiting for someone to jerk them into life and make them talk.
Luigi Pirandello
#12. We want to live. THE MANAGER (ironically). For Eternity? THE FATHER No, sir, only for a moment ... in you.
Luigi Pirandello
#13. I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return.
Pier Luigi Bersani
#15. You don't know what it means to live the life that you could have lived, if an event over which you have no control, an unforeseeable circumstance, had not distracted and diverted you, and at times crushed you, as has happened to me.
Luigi Pirandello
#16. It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!
Luigi Pirandello
#17. Inevitably we construct ourselves. Let me explain. I enter this house and immediately I become what I have to become, what I can become: I construct myself. That is, I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. And, of course, you do the same with me.
Luigi Pirandello
#18. The more arms and legs [children] we have, the richer we are.
Luigi Pirandello
#19. Any man who leads the regular and temperate life, not swerving from it in the least degree where his nourishment is concerned, can be but little affected by other disorders or incidental mishaps. Whereas, on the other hand, I truly conclude that disorderly habits of living are those which are fatal.
Luigi Cornaro
#20. Shake yourself free from the manikin you create out of a false interpretation of what you do and what you feel, and you'll at once see that the manikin you make yourself is nothing at all like what you really are or what you really can be!
Luigi Pirandello
#21. Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
Luigi Pirandello
#22. The formal artistic gesture is already expressed in the act of taking the photograph.
Luigi Ghirri
#23. Serve many fruitlessly, If one repay, Th' ingratitude of thousands 'twill outweigh.
Luigi Pulci
#24. And no one realizes we should all, always, look like that, each with his eyes full of horror at his own, inescapable solitude.
Luigi Pirandello
#25. It is the hardest thing to close the open hand of someone you love.
Luigi Pirandello
#26. Women are like dreams, they are never the way you would like to have them.
Luigi Pirandello
#27. To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
Luigi Barzini
#28. Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.
Luigi Pirandello
#29. He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more.
Luigi Cornaro
#30. What is the stage? It's a place, baby, you know, where people play at being serious, a place where they act comedies. We've got to act a comedy now, dead serious.
Luigi Pirandello
#32. Because evil, my dear child, can be done to anyone and by everyone, but good can only be done to those who need it.
Luigi Pirandello
#33. [Michael Bitbol] asked us to ponder whether the purpose of science is to provide answers about what things are in themselves, or if science is only our most advanced way of developing a pragmatic, conventional knowledge of phenomena sufficient to guide us in our actions.
Pier Luigi Luisi
#34. Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
Luigi Pirandello
#35. But a fact is like a sack which won't stand up when it is empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which have caused it to exist.
Luigi Pirandello
#37. My opinion is a view I hold until ... well, until I find something that changes it.
Luigi Pirandello
#38. Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.
Luigi Barzini
#40. Woman - for example, look at her case! She turns tantalizing inviting glances on you. You seize her. No sooner does she feel herself in your grasp than she closes her eyes. It is a sign of her mission, the sign by which she says to man: "Blind yourself, for I am blind."
Luigi Pirandello
#41. Pretending is a virtue. If you cant pretend, you can't be king.
Luigi Pirandello
#42. You should show some respect for what other people see and feel, even though it be the exact opposite of what you see and feel.
Luigi Pirandello
#43. Without Prayer nothing good is done. God's works are done with our hands joined, and on our knees. Even when we run, we must remain spiritually kneeling before Him.
Luigi Orione
#44. The meaning that i am trying to render through my work is a verification of how it is still possible to desire and face a path of knowledge, to be able finally to distinguish the precise identity of man, things, life, from the image of man, things and life.
Luigi Ghirri
#45. We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.
Luigi Pirandello
#46. We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.
Luigi Pirandello
#48. all these intellectual complications make me sick, disgust me - all this philosophy that uncovers the beast in man, and then seeks to save him, excuse him
Luigi Pirandello
#49. Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.
Luigi Pirandello
#50. Any photographed human being is always a photograph.
Luigi Ghirri
#51. Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.
Luigi Pirandello
#52. Specific units - such as memes are intended to represent have meaning when there is essential discontinuity between categories. Such convenient discontinuities are found in atoms, elementary particles, genes, and DNA.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
#53. Ours is an immutable reality which should make you shudder when you approach us if you are really conscious of the fact that your reality is a mere transitory and fleeting illusion, taking this form today and that tomorrow,
Luigi Pirandello
#55. Have you ever thought to go away and never come back? Run away and lose your tracks, to go to a place far away and start living again, living a new life, only yours, really live? Did you ever think?
Luigi Pirandello
#56. As it grows ever more complicated today, musical art seeks out combinations more dissonant, stranger, and harsher for the ear. Thus, it comes ever closer to the noise-sound.
Luigi Russolo
#57. Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.
Luigi Pirandello
#58. His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel.
Luigi Pulci
#59. ... my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.
Luigi Pirandello
#60. Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.
Luigi Pirandello
#61. There is someone who is living my life. And I know nothing about him.
Luigi Pirandello
#62. No sir, no. We act that role for which we have been cast, that role which we are given in life. And in my own case, passion itself, as usually happens, becomes a trifle theatrical when it is exalted.
Luigi Pirandello
#64. We must break out of this limited circle of sounds and conquer the infinite variety of noise-sounds.
Luigi Russolo
#65. A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which caused it to exist.
Luigi Pirandello
#66. If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing.
Luigi Pirandello
#67. In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.
Luigi Russolo
#68. The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.
Luigi Ghirri
#69. Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his sufferings, to learn who has produced them, and whether it is just or unjust that he should have to bear them.
Luigi Pirandello
#70. When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
Luigi Pirandello
#71. Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to.
Luigi Pirandello
#72. How can we ever come to an understanding if I put in the words I utter the sense and value of things as I see them; while you who listen to me must inevitably translate them according to the conception of things each one of you has within himself.
Luigi Pirandello
#73. If you shut yourself up disdainfully in your ivory tower and insist that you have your own conscience and are satisfied with its approval, it is because you know that everybody is criticizing you, condemning you, or laughing at you.
Luigi Pirandello
#74. The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.
Luigi Pirandello
#75. When a character is born, he acquires at once such an independence, even of his own author, that he can be imagined by everybody even in many other situations where the author never dreamed of placing him; and so he acquires for himself a meaning which the author never thought of giving him.
Luigi Pirandello
#76. If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, since linguistic differences between populations lessen the chance of genetic exchange between them.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
#77. We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It's no matter that this dye doesn't fool you. My lady, you don't dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.
Luigi Pirandello
#78. The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.
Luigi Ghirri
#79. Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow.
Luigi Pirandello
#80. Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
Luigi Pirandello
#81. Everyone will recognize that each sound carries with it a tangle of sensations, already well-known and exhausted, which predispose the listener to boredom, in spite of the efforts of all musical innovators.
Luigi Russolo
#82. Here is a piece of earth. If you stand staring at it and doing nothing, what does the earth yield? Nothing. Just like a woman.
Luigi Pirandello
#83. Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.
Luigi Pirandello
#84. che c'entra questo con le stelle? What has this to do with the stars?
Luigi Giussani
#85. Mathematics may be the only exception in the sciences that leaves no room for skepicism. But, if mathematical results are exact as no empirical law can ever be, philosophers have discovered that they are not absolutely novel - instead, they are tautological.
Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
#86. You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.
Luigi Pirandello
#88. Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Luigi Pirandello
#89. Nowhere! It is merely to show you that one is born to life in many forms, in many shapes, as tree, or as stone, as water, as butterfly, or as woman. So one may also be born a character in a play.
Luigi Pirandello
#90. Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.
Luigi Pirandello
#91. Always seek input from others to aide you in reaching the best possible decision for your business/start-up. This is due to entrepreneurship mostly being about taking calculated risks, and you will always create better strategies if more facts and information go into the decision-making process.
Luigi Wewege
#92. A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.
Luigi Pirandello
#93. They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.
Luigi Barzini
#94. None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.
Luigi Pirandello
#95. Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes
Luigi Pirandello
#96. One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it.
Luigi Pirandello
#97. Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
Luigi Pirandello
#98. I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve to you.
Luigi Pirandello
#100. A character, sir, may always ask a man who he is. Because a character has really a life of his own, marked with his special characteristics; for which reason he is always "somebody." But a man - I'm not speaking of you now - may very well be 'nobody'.
Luigi Pirandello
