Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes

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

Sofia Villani Scicolone

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• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Children
  • Done

• 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

• For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Single
  • Wise

• 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

• One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Ideas
  • Idea
  • Wealth

• I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Light
  • Heat
  • Former

• When he reached the New World, Cortés burned his ships. As a result his crew was well-motivated.

  

  Sean Connery
  • New World
  • Cortes
  • Well-motivated

• I sing and play guitar and harmonica. I've been doing it for a long time.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Guitar
  • Harmonica

• Frankly, I like DVDs having lots of things on it, but I have issues with it as well, too.

  

  Patty Jenkins

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

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone