Clemens Michael > Clemens's Quotes

“Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

“Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

“For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

“No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.”
― Federico Fellini

“Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.”
― Federico Fellini

“A different language is a different vision of life.”
― Frederico Fellini

“The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set”
― Federico Fellini

“An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one. That is the realm of the artist.”
― Federico Fellini

“I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.”
― Federico Fellini

“No.. no questo tipo no, non è capace. Questo vuole prendere tutto, arraffare tutto, non sa rinunciare a niente; cambia strada ogni giorno perché ha paura di perdere quella giusta, e sta morendo, come dissanguato.”
― Fellini, Federico

“A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.”
― Federico Fellini

“Често ме питат дали Марчело е вторият ми Аз. Марчело Мастрояни е много неща за много хора. За мен той не е вторият ми Аз. Той е Марчело, актьор, който пасва съвършено на онова, което искам от него, и може да се огъва на всички страни подобно на човека-„каучук“. Като приятел е съвършен – той е от онези приятели, които се срещат в английската художествена литература, където от благородни съображения мъже, които са едни за други като братя, залагат живота си един за друг. Нашето приятелство е такова или там както си го представяте – защото ще трябва да си го представите, тук като в реалния живот, освен когато работим заедно, никога, ама практически почти никога не се виждаме. Вероятно това е една от причините приятелството ни да е съвършено, понеже всеки от двамата може да си въобразява, че другият е винаги на разположение. Не сме се проверявали никога,. Вярвам в него повече, отколкото на себе си, защото знам, че аз самият всъщност не съм приятел, на когото би могло да се разчита. Може би Марчелино ми вярва повече, защото познава по-добре себе си. Помежду ни никога не е имало неискреност. Играем, но без претенции. В искрената игра си има своеобразна истина.”
― Federico Fellini, I, Fellini