M Sica Quotes

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

Beeban Kidron

#2. It is right it should be so:
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go.

William Blake

#3. Old men ought to be explorers.

T. S. Eliot

#4. My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

Deb Caletti

#5. The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment ... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

Robert Briffault

#6. 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

#7. ... progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to

Phil Hogan

#8. I don't smoke much pot anymore.

Seth MacFarlane

#9. In many courts, plea bargaining serves the convenience of the judge and the lawyers, not the ends of justice, because the courts simply lack the time to give everyone a fair trial.

Jimmy Carter

#10. One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

Franklin P. Jones

#11. Language is a form of organized stutter.

Marshall McLuhan

#12. 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

#13. Christianity fucked men and women up. Men feel guilty and women have misguided anger. The result, a weak male. Fucking controls on our behaviour. It's like a sickness. A control sickness.

Robert Black

#14. 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

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

Satyajit Ray

#16. A turtle without a shell is a very strange thing. Even with shells, turtles are very strange things, with their miniature elephant's feet, parrot's beak and ludicrous tail.
-pg 30

Albert Sanchez Pinol

#17. Perhaps to restore human freedom we should deny determinism ?

Simon Blackburn

#18. My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night.

Jeremy Lin

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

Vittorio De Sica

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. One pays a price for innovation, and innovators, knowing this, are hardly conciliators: books are not written specifically to please others; they are written, like it or not, to please oneself.

Alexis Lykiard

#23. Knowledge cannot be maintained without character.

Raheel Farooq