Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
-
It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
-
I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
-
I don't think I have a signature.
-
I grew up as a country boy.
-
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
-
I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
-
I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
-
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
-
Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
-
What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
-
Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
-
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
-
In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
-
I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
-
I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
-
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
-
I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
-
Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
-
I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.
-
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
-
When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
-
I grew up in the south of Italy, next to the sea, which was a great place to grow up. The type of life we lived there was very relaxing. Just very fun, open-minded people. It was all very sociable and low-key.
-
I still don't know what I want to do when I grow up.
