Bartolomeo Quotes & Sayings

It's the quiet ones who suffer most. — Christina Bartolomeo

The terms that Sforza Cesarini offered Rossini, 400 Roman Scudi, were not ungenerous, though it must have been galling for Rossini to see the Figaro, Luigi Zamboni, getting almost twice as much, and the Almaviva, Manuel Garcia, being offered three times the amount. Of the first-night cast, only the 'altro buffo', Bartolomeo Botticelli, who played Bartolo, and the 'seconda donna', Elisabetta Lowselet, who played Berta, were paid less than the composer. — Richard Osborne

...some people here seem to have stepped through a time-warp -- old Romans being recycled with a mere change of costume. — Umberto Bartolomeo

Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered. — Bartolomeo D'Alviano

These displays made it clear that the truly dedicated homemaker matched her comforter to her pillow shams to her washcloths to her bedskirt to her toothbrush holder. — Christina Bartolomeo

Sometimes it's more terrible and more stupid to sit, paralyzed, as events slip past you. A certain kind of guardian angel must watch over fools as they rush in. — Christina Bartolomeo

you can be pinpricked to death,' said Marta. 'I think the Chinese have a torture along those lines. — Christina Bartolomeo

I couldn't tell if, as husbands went, Paul was unusual, but he seamed to need lots more care and feeding than I bargained on. If only he'd come with an instruction booklet, like our new steam iron did, or even with a little plastic stick with tips about watering and sunlight, like a florist azalea. — Christina Bartolomeo

I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric. — Bartolomeo Vanzetti

What good in a man's life if it's not lived free eh? — Bartolomeo D'Alviano

The poet Swinburne said that spring begins 'blossom by blossom. — Christina Bartolomeo

Courage is not my leading virtue. I've always avoided change of any sort, operating on the principle of safety first. I married a "safe" man. I've made my living performing humdrum work, work that bored other people so much that they'd pay someone else to do it. — Christina Bartolomeo

I could either wait it out or pack my bags, but I could't force a confrontation with a man who refused to be confronted. So I did what a lot of women do: I kept my head in the sand. And I waited for winter to be over. — Christina Bartolomeo

You think that commanding an army grants you nobility? Nobility comes from fighting besides your soldiers, not kidnapping a woman to cheat your way out of battle. — Bartolomeo D'Alviano

...loafing in the easy chair of one's body. — Umberto Bartolomeo

Perhaps Anita Loos had been right when she wrote that family life was only fit for those who could stand it. — Christina Bartolomeo

She had passed her whole life as does everyone, rushing and dreaming in blind, deaf refusal of the miracle of each moment. — Umberto Bartolomeo