Italo Calvino Quotes

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

I'm a traditionalist. I have certain values I live by.

I have the old-school mentality.

I lead a very conventional life.

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

I'm very conventional compared to my parents.

I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.

I'm an old school guy.

My dad felt old school.

I don't want to describe either Governor Mitt Romney or the Republicans as stupid, but I will say this - if you look at their platform, the 2012 platform, it looks like it's from another century and maybe even two. It looks like the platform of 1812.

I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.

The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.

There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life.

Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in.

If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.

… a country's laws are written upon paper, and that its customs are engraved upon brass. One may play with the one, but not with the other. It is less risky for a stranger to dance upon our Constitution in the public square than to affront one of our solidified customs. The one is merely eminently respectable, the other is sacred.

I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.

We're often too entrenched in existing structures and are so primed to think that if we grew up with the values and the norms, they have to be correct.

I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.

I come from a very straight and adjusted suburban background.

I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.