Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes

I can cook, I can breathe, I can live!

Sofia Villani Scicolone

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• I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Good
  • Me
  • Comfortable

• When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Always
  • Big
  • Yard

• Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Enough
  • Within
  • Dinosaurs

• I had all kinds of food issues, including health concerns and weight concerns.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Food
  • Health
  • Weight

• I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Thinking
  • Door

• He came in sight of a pass guarded by armed men. ‘you cannot pass … Do you not know that all this country belongs to the Spirit of the Age? … Here Enlightenment, take this fugitive to our Master.’

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Country
  • Age

• Empathy for women is an attribute of masculinity. When men play the protector role they are trying to save a woman from grief or pain. If they had no glimpse of her grief or pain, they wouldn’t know when to protect.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• In many instances the conduct of colored workmen, and those who have spoken for them, has not been in asking or demanding that equal rights be accorded to them as to white workmen, but somehow conveying the idea that they are to be petted and coddled and given special consideration and special privilege. Of course that can't be done.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Done

• About 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Long

• The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Real

• O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Light
  • Drama
  • Summer

• We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Car
  • Wall

• It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.

  

  Marian Burros
  • Done
  • May
  • Library

• It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.

  

  Chevy Chase

• My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • She
  • Mother
  • Perfect

• The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean's 'Brief Encounter,' Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love.'

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Lost
  • Mood
  • Sunrise

• The very first thing on the docket is to have the opportunity to travel to look at spiders in other parts of the world. I know there are really cool silks out there.

  

  Cheryl Hayashi
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Cool

• You kind of need to weed through who is wanting to be a true friend.

  

  AJ Michalka
  • True
  • Friend
  • Weed

• I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection.

  

  Jason Marsden
  • Action
  • Disney
  • Batman

• When a drawing doesn't come out right it's because I haven't figured out where the joke is. Not that every drawing has a joke, but every drawing has a point. At least it should have. And you figure out where the point is.

  

  Edward Sorel
  • Drawing
  • Point
  • Joke

• I keep fit, I work out, I eat pretty damn well, I don't drink like a fish, and all of those things are tempered with a holistic mind-set that you need to damn well respect the vehicle that you're walking around in.

  

  Mick Fleetwood Fleetwood Mac
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• Definitely the most important thing in my life is being a father.

  

  Ben Miller
  • Father
  • Life is
  • Important Thing

• I can cook, I can breathe, I can live!

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone