Sofia Villani Scicolone (Sophia Loren) Quotes

I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for me. What counts in life is to bring about more of your own dreams. In such a way that your life becomes like a fairy tale. This is what has happened to me, it is just like that.

Sofia Villani Scicolone

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• Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • Remember
  • American

• They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Saying
  • Computers
  • Nonsense

• I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.

  

  Rachel Field
  • May
  • Think
  • Ambition

• I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Light
  • Morning
  • Exercise

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Focus

• What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • War
  • Reality
  • Freedom

• The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.

  

  Zev Yaroslavsky
  • Disappointed
  • NFL
  • Disturbed

• It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Influence
  • Writers
  • Reader

• Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Sense
  • Sorrow

• Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • True
  • Way

• The S.B.A. does not lend directly to businesses, but instead backs loans to encourage banks to invest in small businesses as part of a nearly $90 billion portfolio.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Invest
  • Portfolio

• To produce foie gras, ducks and geese are force-fed enormous amounts of grain and fat, which causes their livers to swell to many times the normal size.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Size
  • Fat
  • Ducks

• 'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art from art history and replicated them all out of Lego bricks.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Done
  • Art
  • History

• It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Career
  • Build

• Only a fool can't be fooled.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fool

• 3D printing is going to transform our societies, our freedoms and our sense of security.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan

• Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whether by formal or informal eviction, landlord foreclosure, or building condemnation.

  

  Matthew Desmond

• I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.

  

  Brian Welch
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Done
  • Knowledge

• The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown.

  

  Plato
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Wisdom

• I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for me. What counts in life is to bring about more of your own dreams. In such a way that your life becomes like a fairy tale. This is what has happened to me, it is just like that.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Life
  • Important
  • Dream