Sciascia Leonardo Quotes

#1. I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

Leonardo Sciascia

#2. Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible.
("The Wendigo")

Algernon Blackwood

#3. Living in the past or living in the future - those aren't real. The moment is now, and that's where safety and comfort and all that good stuff is.

Marc Jacobs

#4. Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

Suzanne Fields

#5. ... And the sound of the sea, like the wild-animal breath of the world itself, frightened them as it gasped and died at their feet.

Leonardo Sciascia

#6. All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.

Leonardo Sciascia

#7. The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia

Leonardo Sciascia

#8. I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin ... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

Sara Zarr

#9. One day his fingers will grow knobby, he will start to sag. I pray to the goddesses, the gods, the eggs, the clouds, the trees. I pray to the wind that he will grow old and die well.

Jessica Bates

#10. Dear Commendatory Roomers, you have no idea how many people-serious, decently behaved, cultivated people- go looking for the company of whores

Leonardo Sciascia

#11. As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.

Philip Pullman

#12. I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

Veronica Roth

#13. Everyone had an uncle who tried to steal their nose.

Peter Kay

#14. Translation is the other side of a tapestry.

Leonardo Sciascia

#15. The studios have their list of five actresses and whether they're right or wrong for a role doesn't matter. It's how much money their last movie made.

Sherilyn Fenn

#16. Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and I don't understand why we had to invent this character.

Todd Rundgren

#17. Maybe the whole of italy is becoming a sort of Sicily.

Leonardo Sciascia

#18. I've learned to think in terms of having a long career. Actors can have very long careers that last until the day we die, but there will be moments when you'll feel like you're a failure or when you're disappointed in yourself.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#19. A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.

Leonardo Sciascia

#20. I'm firmly of the belief that your youth should be spent pursuing your passion - not just slightly, tremulously, haltingly, but unrelentingly, with a vengeance, to the max and then beyond. So dream laughably big - and then take an absurdly huge risk or two.

Umair Haque

#21. It's like squeezing tripe: nothing comes out,' he said, meaning the Colasberna brothers, their partners, the town in general and Sicily as a whole.

Leonardo Sciascia

#22. Reality is always richer, more unpredictable than our deductions

Leonardo Sciascia

#23. I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.

Jim Henson