Ornella Muti Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
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The urgent necessity is to make a decision - whether or not it is right.
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We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear, and that we regard such things more or less highly than is just. This is the source of the superstitions by which men everywhere are troubled.
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People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
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What's missing is the music. I'd like to rant on and on about the music, the mechanics of it. It's what I think about 90 per cent of the day. I don't think about getting high all the time. I guess I do think about sex a lot, though...
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“Success breeds pride and vanity. And pride is the only reward of success.”
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The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.
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I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.
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Mr Philpotts was a chemistry master whose principal characteristic lay in a sort of unfocused vehemence.
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I do like playing strong safety.
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Children in a third world country. That's how we spread democracy.
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We need foreign skills to stay competitive.
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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture.
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American literature has always been immigrant.
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When I was young, I never bought records because my brother Joseph played saxophone and had a record player. I loved listening to his records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, all the big American jazz bands, and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, and Kitty White, a singer from the US who was a friend of Nina Simone. Nobody in America seems to know about her, but she was quite popular in South Africa.
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In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.
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We can't compete with Mel Gibson, but we figured we could do our part.
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For sheer sensory enjoyment, few everyday experiences can compete with a good cup of coffee.
