Botticellis Quotes & Sayings

First of all, let's get one thing straight. Your Italy and our Italia are not the same thing. Italy is a soft drug peddled in predictable packages, such as hills in the sunset, olive groves, lemon trees, white wine, and raven-haired girls. Italia, on the other hand, is a maze. It's alluring, but complicated. It's the kind of place that can have you fuming and then purring in the space of a hundred meters, or in the course of ten minutes. Italy is the only workshop in the world that can turn out both Botticellis and Berlusconis. — Beppe Severgnini

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere. — George P. Shultz

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. — Richard M. Nixon

Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash. — Kevin Kwan

I've always been quiet and kind of shy. I'm sociable, but I would probably migrate to a corner. — Sugar Ray Leonard

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course. — Clive Barker

His heart was a grave. — Maggie Stiefvater

When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn't have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix. — Harry S. Truman

Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of. — Rebecca Solnit

433. - The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy. ["Nemo alienae virtuti invidet qui satis confidet suae." - Cicero In Marc Ant.] — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Where shall we honeymoon? Will you take me to Italy, to see the Botticellis?"
"I will take you anywhere you wish. Anywhere under the sky. — Tessa Dare

Be assured that God does more in us than we for Him; and that what we do is only for Him in proportion as it is He Himself who works it in us. — John Nelson Darby

Trust is even more important than love. — Jeffrey Gitomer

My mother was very fashion-oriented, and she started a little children's wear business that became large in this little town. She used to be able to look at a picture of an outfit and just start cutting the fabric right there. — Francisco Costa