PREVIOUS MONTHS SENTENCES

• September 1997: "Such mail bang bang piranha in pond, cut less lard back on tar."
  (Antonio Bianchini, 10/9/1997)
• October 1997: "There must be some other way / To get where we have to go."
  (Genesis, 1997)
• November 1997: "Do. Or don't do. There's no trying."
  (Yoda, 1980, in: The Empire strikes back)
• December 1997: "Repeating creates variation."
  (Robert Fripp)
• January 1998: "Di ovvio c'è solo la catena del cesso." [The only obvious thing is the loo chain.]
  (Alberto Vergnani, 17/1/1998)
• February 1998: "Se son rose, fioriranno..." [If they're roses, they will bloom...]
  (Old Italian saying)
• March 1998: "It could be worse. It could be raining..."
  (Marty Feldman, 1974, in: Young Frankenstein)
• April 1998: "The answer is inside you. But unfortunately it is wrong."
  (The Prophet of Quelo, February 1997)
  
• May 1998: "Don't panic."
  (Douglas Adams, warning at the beginning of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", 1979)
  
• June 1998: "When you mention something... 1) if it's good, it disappears; 2) if it's bad, it happens."
  (Arthur Bloch, Murphy's Law about the Ineffable, 1979)
  
• July 1998: "Before judging somebody, one has to have walked for three moons with his moccasins."
  (Ancient Native American proverb)
  
• August 1998: "Attentiòn! Trois, deux, un... fiiiiit!"
  (Gennaro Olivieri & Guido Pancaldi)
  
• September 1998: "I love these quiet moments before the storm..."
  (Gary Oldman, 1994, in: Léon)
  
• October 1998: "Who knows me knows it"
  (Alberto Tomba)
  
• November 1998: "Stars can frighten."
  (Pink Floyd, 1967)
  
• December 1998: "Depressing a teen-ager is like shooting at fishes into a barrel."
  (Bart Simpson, 1996)
  
• January 1999: "In lacunis delectatio" [Enjoyment in the voids]
  (Leerdammer cheese motto)
  
• February 1999: "The more I know people, the more I love animals."
  (Simona Marchini)
  
• March 1999: "We are done."
  (Alessandra Bertarini, 27/2/1998, by the end of the dinner)
  
• April 1999: "God exists, but he hates us."
  (Roberto "Freak" Antoni)
  
• May 1999: "I don't like it, but I guess I'm learning."
  (Peter Gabriel, 1982)
  
• June 1999: "Nemo me impune lacessit" [Nobody harmed me without punishment]
  (Edgar Allan Poe, "The cask of Amontillado", 1839)
  
• July 1999: "NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
  (Monty Python, 1970)
  
• August 1999: "And everything under the Sun is in tune,/ But the Sun is eclipsed by the Moon."
  (Pink Floyd, 1973)
  
• September 1999: "Nothing lasts forever."
  (Living Color, 1993)
  
• October 1999: "That's a tactics which doesn't pay."
  (Cino Ricci, May-June 1992)
  
• November 1999: "And another day has gone."
  (Francesco Guccini, 1970)
  
• December 1999: "Everyone stays alone, on the heart of the Earth, wounded by a ray of sun.
  And it's suddenly evening."
  (Salvatore Quasimodo, 1942)
  
• January 2000: "as soon as it was talked about the plague, Don Ferrante was one of the firmest in denying it"
  (Alessandro Manzoni, "The Betrothed", 1827)
  
• February 2000: "Honour to Sylvester the Cat"
  (Banner of the Torino soccer team supporters, 6/2/2000)
  
• March 2000: "That is a knife? THIS is a knife."
  (Paul Hogan, 1986, in: Mr. 'Crocodile' Dundee)
  
• April 2000: "BEER! Helping ugly people have sex since 1862."
  (Slogan seen on a T-shirt in Sydney, end of March 2000)
  
• May 2000: "I'm so tired of the Omega Man"
  (The Police, 1981)
  
• June 2000: "Let's go to the dump and shoot at rats!"
  (Sean Penn, 2000, in: Sweet and lowdown)
  
• July 2000: "'Either I'm going very wrong, or others will come' Maso said."
  (J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Hobbit", 1937)
  
• August 2000: "But the one and only Institutions Reform / Is that everyone of you fucks off."
  (Giorgio Gaber, early '90s)
  
• September 2000: "The important is not winning: it is taking part."
  (Pierre de Frédy, Baron De Coubertin, end of XIX Century)
  
• October 2000: "Where do we go from here?"
  (Marillion, 1987)
  
• November 2000: "Nobody understands us fussbudget people."
  (Lucy van Pelt, mid '60s)
  
• December 2000: "Christmas"
  (Giuseppe Ungaretti, 1916 December 26)
• January 2001: "Trust a few. Fear the rest."
  (X-Men motto)
  
• February 2001: "And so castles made of sand / Fall in the sea / Eventually."
  (Jimi Hendrix, 1967)
  
• March 2001: "It's colder than when it's cold."
  (Nicola Greco, 24/2/2001)
  
• April 2001: "Words are important."
  (Nanni Moretti, 1989, in: Red Wood Pigeon)
  
• May 2001: "He's spending one year in a corpse condition to avoid paying taxes."
  (Douglas Adams, 1980, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)
  
• June 2001: "It's hard to explain / Certain bitter days, / Never mind."
  (Enrico Ruggeri / Fiorella Mannoia, 1987)
  
• July 2001: "Don't kiss me!"
  (Writing seen on a bib for babies)
  
• August 2001: "I've seen things that you humans cannot even guess of."
  (Rutger Hauer, 1982, in: Blade Runner)
  
• September 2001: "I feel like I'm Tarzan against the Communist Party!"
  (Renato Pozzetto, winter 2000)
  
• October 2001: "First prize: a new car; second prize: a set of knives; third and fouth prizes: the dismissal."
  (Alec Baldwin, 1992, in: Glengarry Glen Ross)
  
• November 2001: "When dying, it's not us who owe an explanation to god but, if he exists, he should owe us one."
  (Indro Montanelli)
  
• December 2001: "Look at Omàrr, how handsome he is!"
  (Totò, in: Totò Sheik, 1950)
  
• January 2002: "Gals, there's not a single lira!"
  (Tino Scotti, 1977)
  
• February 2002: "D'Alema, say something!!!"
  (Nanni Moretti, in: April, 1998)
  
• March 2002: "I don't like it, but I guess I'm learning"
  (Peter Gabriel, 1982)
  
• April 2002: "Today I took 120 decisions... All of them wrong."
  (Snoopy, 1970)
  
• May 2002: "Knowledge brings fear."
  (Motto of the University of Mars as seen on "Futurama")
  
• June 2002: "True, open, false and strage, / Closed, anarchist, verdian: / Bad breed, the Emilian."
  (Dalla, Guccini, Morandi, 1988)
  
• July 2002: "Nothing is quite what it seems: / Sometimes entangled in your own dreams."
  (Genesis, 1976)
  
• August 2002: "Against stupidity, the Gods themselves fight in vain."
  (Friedrich Von Schiller, 1801)
  
• September 2002: "Rust never dies"
  (often seen on an andrea Simoncelli's T-shirt, 2002)
  
• October 2002: "Evrizink unter kontroll!"
  (Niki Lauda, the '70s)
  
• November 2002: "Extraordinary statements need extraordinary proofs."
  (Carl Sagan's law)
  
• December 2002: "And with the base one can't go out of tune, one can't go wrong."
  (Enzo Jannacci, 1980)
  
• January 2003:" "If I could eat an idea / I would have done my / Revolution."
  (Giorgio Gaber, 1972)
  
• February 2003: "One dead is a tragedy; one million dead is statistics."
  (Iosip Stalin)
  
• March 2003: "(1) You can't win. (2) You can't draw. (3) You can't even quit."
  (Ginsberg's Theorem)
  
• April 2003: "They were days of May in the streets of Peking; we were joking among ourselves by picking nettles."
  (Franco Battiato, 1981)
  
• May 2003: "We have some electric nuisances."
  (Peter Gabriel, September 8, 1988)
  
• June 2003: "You'd be paranoid, too, if everybody were plotting against you!"
  (Anonymous paranoid)
  
• July 2003: "Always look on the bright side of life."
  (Monty Python, 1979, in: Life of Brian)
  
• August 2003: "El Campeón es uno sólo y se llama Colo Colo!"
  (Heard by Stefano Covino in the streets of Santiago de Chile, August 2003)
  
• September 2003: "Rich bet, jump in that!"
  (Terence Hill, 1978, in: Odds and Evens)
  
• October 2003: "It's a difficult world..."
  (Tonino Carotone, 1999)
  
• November 2003: "The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority."
  (Philip K. Dick, 1956)
  
• December 2003: "What's doing this dog I just created? Dammit, it bit me!
  (Francesco Guccini, 1973)
  
• January 2004: "They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway; / They say there's always magic in the air."
  (The Drifters, 1963)
  
• February 2004: "One stays / as in autumn / the leaves / on the trees.
  (Giuseppe Ungaretti, 1916)
  
• March 2004: "Up with Ferrari!"
  (Marco della Noce, early 2000s)
  
• April 2004: "Guests get driven - not forgotten."
  (Alexander Kann, 1/3/2004)
  
• May 2004: "A bit of ignorance can be tolerated, but idiocy must be cut down as it shows up."
  (Carla Sbarra, 11/5/2004)
  
• June 2004: "The only judgement criterion is the way in which one achieves the aim."
  (Werner Heisenberg, 1971)
  
• July 2004: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
  (Neil Armstrong, 20/7/1969)
  [Dedicated to the Moon Landing Conspiracy fans]
  
• August 2004: "There's no fun in being intelligent in Italy."
  (Skiantos, 1987)
  
• September 2004: "I'm a dream for some. A nightmare for others!"
  (Nicol Williamson, in: Excalibur, 1981)
  
• October 2004: "Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark, / for the straightforward pathway had been lost."
  (Dante, The Divine Commedy, 1304 [translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow])
  
• November 2004: "That southern Cross in the clear sky, / the upside-down ambiguity of Orion..."
  (Francesco Guccini, Argentina, 1983)
  
• December 2004: "Mother Nature is a bitch."
  (Arthur Bloch, Murphy's Law's 10th corollary, 1979)
  
• January 2005: "You have cloned the wrong person!"
  (Arnold Schwarzenegger, in: The sixth day, 2000)
  
• February 2005: "My home is uncomfortable / Because I live in the chamber pot."
  (Elio e Le Storie Tese, 1993)
  
• March 2005: "Masetti, we have to start thinking big!"
  (Typographer anonymous, end of '80s)
  
• April 2005: "I dunno what to tell ya. And if I tell ya, what's the use of?"
  (Gigi Proietti, in: Febbre da cavallo [Horse fever], 1976)
  
• May 2005: "Life is chiral."
  (Michael Sterzik, 14/6/2005)
• June 2005: "And now, for something completely different..."
  (Monty Python, 1971)
  
• July 2005: "There's a boa in the canoe. / Let's hope it dies."
  (Andrea Mingardi, 1983)
  
• August 2005: "For the baking soda!"
  (Totò, the '50s)
  
• September 2005: "And if I were the good man, / I'd talk with you more often than I do."
  (Pink Floyd, 1970)
• October 2005: "In the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes."
  (Andy Warhol, the '60s)
  
• November 2005: "The more less paper yourselves give us, the more less good the job comes out."
  (Heard by Elena Neri on her working place in the past millennium)
  
• December 2005: "Contento, Señor, contento."
  (Saint Alberto Hurtado)
  
• January 2006: "I know what I like, and I like what I know."
  (Genesis, 1973)
  
• February 2006: "If you want to be more positive... lose an electron!"
  (Mamurri, 28/10/2005)
  
• March 2006: "Too much information running through my brain / Too much information driving me insane."
  (The Police, 1981)
  
• April 2006: "The long, dark tea-time of the soul."
  (Douglas Adams, 1988)
  
• May 2006: "When things get so big / I don't trust them at all. / If you want to keep control / You've got to keep them small."
  (Peter Gabriel, 1978)
  
• June 2006: "Italy Italy, ode to our dawn with the plough and the prow."
  (Cochi & Renato, the '70s)
  
• July 2006: "Shine on, you crazy diamond."
  (Pink Floyd, 1975)
  
• August 2006: "Muttley, do something!"
  (Dick Dastardly, the '70s)
  
• September 2006: "I'm allergic to bullshit."
  (Will Smith, in: I, robot, 2004)
  
• October 2006: "Fear, terror, nightmare and pain in the back!"
  (Davide Girotti, the '80s)
  
• November 2006: "The side order has no alternatives."
  (Regulations of the CAMST canteen in the CNR Research Area of Bologna)
  
• December 2006: "With enemies, laws are applied; with friends, laws are interpreted."
  (Giovanni Giolitti)
  
• January 2007: "Life is hard."
  (Mario Livio, the '90s)
  
• February 2007: "Ah! servile Italy, grief's hostelry! / A ship without a pilot in great tempest! / No Lady thou of Provinces, but brothel!"
  (Dante, The Divine Commedy, 1304 [translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow])
  
• March 2007: "There is no dark side of the moon, really. As a matter of fact, it's all dark."
  (Gerry Driscoll, 1973)
  
• April 2007: "Get behind, Saragat!"
  (Diego Abatantuono, the '80s)
  
• May 2007: "Techincs is technics, and without technics there's no technics."
  (Teófilo's theorem)
  
• June 2007: "If Nature opposes we will fight against her and we'll make her obey us."
  (Simón Bolívar)
• July 2007: "He went on killing scoundrels / with his cannon of the future."
  (Sílvio Rodríguez, 1969)
• August 2007: "Loos talking... everybody applausing..."
  (Lucio Dalla, 1988)
• September 2007: "The situation is heavy, but it's not serious."
  (Ennio Flaiano)
• October 2007: "Drat, drat and double drat!"
  (Dick Dastardly, the '70s)
• November 2007: "In the long term, we all will be dead."
  (John Maynard Keynes)
• Dicembre 2007: "Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge."
  (Erwin Knoll)
  

The 'Sentences of the month' end with the month of December 2007.
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