Niccolo Ammaniti Quotes

#1. - They're all dead. They're all dead and they live in holes like this one. And I'm in one too. Everybody. The world's a place full of holes with dead people in them. And the moon's a ball all full of holes too and inside them there are other dead people.

Niccolo Ammaniti

#2. The Lord of the worms comes and goes.

Niccolo Ammaniti

#3. Despair and die.

The ghosts

William Shakespeare

#4. Even the most difficult things which you think you'll never get over you do get over, and in a trice you find they're behind you and you have to go on. New things await you.

Niccolo Ammaniti

#5. Do you know what they called a sausage-in-a-bun in Quirm?' said Mr Pin, as the two walked away. 'No?' said Mr Tulip. 'They called it le sausage-in-le-bun.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Margherita Margheritone put the pot of water on the fire and the Wicked Witch emptied the sack into it and the little wash-bear jumped out and started biting both of them, went down into the yard and started eating the hens, and threw all the rubbish into the air.

Niccolo Ammaniti

#7. It is better to give others a piece of your heart than a piece of your mind.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#8. Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Monsters don't exist. It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

Niccolo Ammaniti

#10. The war on terrorism was a bait and switch operation.

Eric Alterman

#11. I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

Moshe Sharett

#12. Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

Barack Obama

#13. The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.

Terry Pratchett

#14. They looked like good people, but deep down they were pieces of shit. They often found they way into politics, and they talked about God, family values and country. They were the new cavaliers of the Catholic culture.

Niccolo Ammaniti

#15. In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.

Adam Braver

#16. No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. She was always on her feet. Cooking. Washing. Ironing.

Niccolo Ammaniti

#18. What you call looking like an idiot are splashes of mediatic splendor that give shine to your personality and make you more human, more likable. If ethical and aesthetic principles no longer exist, looking like an idiot disappears as a consequence.

Niccolo Ammaniti