Giulia > Giulia's Quotes

“[...] un essere chiamato Purgatorius, che era una specie di ratto piccolissimo [...]. Molti ritengono che sia lui il nostro più lontano capolinea finora conosciuto.”
― Pero Angela, Alberto Angela

“Questa "spartizione" del clima provocò nelle due zone adattamenti diversi, sempre secondo Coppens: nella foresta si svilupparono pian piano quelle forme che ancora oggi conosciamo (scimpanzé e gorilla), mentre nella zona arida di savana, in Africa orientale, emersero le prime forme di ominidi.”
― Pero Angela, Alberto Angela

“Sembra un paradosso, ma nell'amore due esseri diventano uno, e tuttavia restano due.”
― Erich Fromm

“Tutto è bene quando esce dalle mani dell'Autore delle cose, tutto degenera fra le mani dell'uomo.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Quando qualcuno cerca, allora accade facilmente che il suo occhio perda la capacità di vedere ogni altra cosa, fuori di quella che cerca [...]
Cercare significa: avere uno scopo.
Ma trovare significa: esser libero, restare aperto, non avere scopo.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

“La creazione richiede tempo e amore, la distruzione solo qualche secondo di follia.”
― David Gemmell, Ravenheart

“Il sonno diurno è come il peccato della carne: più se ne è avuto più se ne vorrebbe, eppure ci si sente infelici, sazi e insaziati allo stesso tempo.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

“Provammo un senso di disorientamento, la stessa mancanza di sincronia tra suono e luce quando c'è un tuono.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, Lizard

“Come il viaggiatore che naviga tra le isole dell'Arcipelago vede levarsi a sera i vapori luminosi, e scopre a poco a poco la linea della costa, così io comincio a scorgere il profilo della mia morte.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“[...] mi colpirebbero di più se non mi venisse fatto di chiedere a me stesso in che cosa la sofferenza dell'erba falciata differisca essenzialmente da quella di un montone sgozzato, e se l'orrore che proviamo nel vedere trucidare un animale non dipenda soprattutto dal fatto che la nostra sensibilità appartiene al medesimo regno.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“I meno abili, in mancanza di parole e di frasi nelle quali racchiuderla, colgono, della vita, un'immagine povera e piatta; Altri l'appesantiscono, l'ammantano di una dignità che non possiede. Altri ancora, al contrario, l'alleggeriscono, ne fanno una palla vuota e saltellante, che è facile prendere e lanciare in un universo senza peso.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“Siamo tutti foglie, amico mio. La nostra vita paragonata a quella delle montagne e a quella del mare è niente, qualche battito del cuore e via. Niente di ciò che noi costruiamo dura in eterno.”
― David Gemmell, Midnight Falcon

“E' l'oriente, e Giulietta è il sole! Oh, sorgi bel sole e uccidi la luna invidiosa che è già malata e pallida di rabbia, perché tu, sua ancella, di lei sei tanto più bella.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Non è un vero scienziato chi ha timore che la gente lo ritenga pazzo.”
― Douglas Adams, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“E' noto che esiste un numero infinito di mondi, per il semplice fatto che esiste uno spazio infinito atto a ospitarli.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Zaphod si girò verso Ford con espressione stravolta.
- Ford - disse - quante capsule di salvataggio ci sono? -
- Nessuna - disse Ford.
- Le hai contate? - urlò Zaphod
- Sì, due volte -”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Be', c'è questo Dio, il vostro Dio, che piazza un melo in mezzo al giardino e dice: "Ragazzi, fate quello che volete, ma non mangiate le mele". Caso straordinario, loro addentano una mela, ed ecco che lui ti salta fuori da dietro un cespuglio gridando: "Vi ho beccati, vi ho beccati!". Non avrebbe fatto molta differenza se non avessero mangiato la mela. [...] quando hai a che fare con quel tipo di dei, in trappola ci cadi sempre.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Don't Panic.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“O Deep Thought computer," he said, "the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to tell us...." he paused, "The Answer."
"The Answer?" said Deep Thought. "The Answer to what?"
"Life!" urged Fook.
"The Universe!" said Lunkwill.
"Everything!" they said in chorus.
Deep Thought paused for a moment's reflection.
"Tricky," he said finally.
"But can you do it?"
Again, a significant pause.
"Yes," said Deep Thought, "I can do it."
"There is an answer?" said Fook with breathless excitement.
"Yes," said Deep Thought. "Life, the Universe, and Everything. There is an answer. But, I'll have to think about it."
...
Fook glanced impatiently at his watch.
“How long?” he said.
“Seven and a half million years,” said Deep Thought.
Lunkwill and Fook blinked at each other.
“Seven and a half million years...!” they cried in chorus.
“Yes,” declaimed Deep Thought, “I said I’d have to think about it, didn’t I?"

[Seven and a half million years later.... Fook and Lunkwill are long gone, but their descendents continue what they started]

"We are the ones who will hear," said Phouchg, "the answer to the great question of Life....!"
"The Universe...!" said Loonquawl.
"And Everything...!"
"Shhh," said Loonquawl with a slight gesture. "I think Deep Thought is preparing to speak!"
There was a moment's expectant pause while panels slowly came to life on the front of the console. Lights flashed on and off experimentally and settled down into a businesslike pattern. A soft low hum came from the communication channel.

"Good Morning," said Deep Thought at last.
"Er..good morning, O Deep Thought" said Loonquawl nervously, "do you have...er, that is..."
"An Answer for you?" interrupted Deep Thought majestically. "Yes, I have."
The two men shivered with expectancy. Their waiting had not been in vain.
"There really is one?" breathed Phouchg.
"There really is one," confirmed Deep Thought.
"To Everything? To the great Question of Life, the Universe and everything?"
"Yes."
Both of the men had been trained for this moment, their lives had been a preparation for it, they had been selected at birth as those who would witness the answer, but even so they found themselves gasping and squirming like excited children.
"And you're ready to give it to us?" urged Loonsuawl.
"I am."
"Now?"
"Now," said Deep Thought.
They both licked their dry lips.
"Though I don't think," added Deep Thought. "that you're going to like it."
"Doesn't matter!" said Phouchg. "We must know it! Now!"
"Now?" inquired Deep Thought.
"Yes! Now..."
"All right," said the computer, and settled into silence again. The two men fidgeted. The tension was unbearable.
"You're really not going to like it," observed Deep Thought.
"Tell us!"
"All right," said Deep Thought. "The Answer to the Great Question..."
"Yes..!"
"Of Life, the Universe and Everything..." said Deep Thought.
"Yes...!"
"Is..." said Deep Thought, and paused.
"Yes...!"
"Is..."
"Yes...!!!...?"
"Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“So long, and thanks for all the fish.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy