Domenico Quotes & Sayings

As a teenager, I would wear Clarks, corduroy pants and striped shirts, and I loved it. — Domenico Dolce

My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer. — Domenico Dolce

My morning routine is quite common: I have breakfast at home while reading the newspaper, I take a shower, get dressed, a spray of cologne, and I am ready to go! — Domenico Dolce

The man that shows off, to that one who wants to convince of his value is to himself. — Domenico Cieri

Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy. — Domenico Cieri

Referring to my desire to appropriate Italian, he [Domenico Starnone] wrote, 'A new language is almost a new life, grammar and syntax recast you, you slip into another logic and another sensibility.' How much those words reassured me ... They contained all my yearning, all my disorientation. Reading this message, I understood better the impulse to express myself in a new language. To subject myself, as a writer, to a metamorphosis. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Toccata by Pietro Domenico Paradisi - the one from his Sonata in A Major - come tripping out to meet me. The Toccata was my favorite composition; to my mind it was the greatest musical accomplishment in the entire history of the world, but I knew that if Ophelia found that out, — Alan Bradley

Our fashion is for everyone and, throughout the years, we have had the possibility of working with the world's most beautiful and charming women and men. There is no person in particular who we would like to work with that we haven't already worked with. — Domenico Dolce

I clear my wardrobe of anything I'm not wearing and give the clothes to charity. — Domenico Dolce

There was that in the atmosphere of San Salvatore which produced active-mindedness in all except the natives. They, as before, whatever the beauty around them, whatever the prodigal seasons did, remained immune from thoughts other than those they were accustomed to. All their lives they had seen, year by year, the amazing recurrent spectacle of April in the gardens, and custom had made it invisible to them. They were as blind to it, as unconscious of it, as Domenico's dog asleep in the sun. The visitors could not be blind to it - it was too arresting after London in a particularly wet and gloomy March. Suddenly to be transported to that place where the air was so still that it held its breath, where the light was so golden that the most ordinary things were transfigured - to be transported into that delicate warmth, — Elizabeth Von Arnim

His eyes sent coldness deep under my skin, where it spread like a stain. "Domenico, — Deborah Harkness

I love art, in particular, paintings. I have, well, a lot. — Domenico Dolce

There are people who believe that a Dolce & Gabbana T-shirt is more stylish than a supermarket one, and there are people who believe the opposite. There is room for everyone. — Domenico Dolce

Domenico!" Father Guglielmo said. "I remind you again that the late monsignor's sins and his salvation are between God and him. Your brother's, too. To wish damnation on one and assign damnation to the other is to presume yourself capable of doing God's work for Him. Humble yourself, man! Pray for humility. If you seek absolution, you must put yourself in a state of grace. — Wally Lamb

It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood. — Domenico Dolce

Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world plays the lead role. — Domenico Dolce

I drink a lot. More or less 10 or 12 coffees a day, both typical Italian and espresso. — Domenico Dolce

The fashion system has killed fashion. — Domenico Dolce

My mind is never stopping. I think, if you stop, you die. Maybe it is a problem for me - I have to talk to myself and say, 'Please stop. Switch off.' — Domenico Dolce

Do I make fashion mistakes? Yes, but I won't say what. — Domenico Dolce

At the beginning of the career is important for a designer to present his most representative pieces. — Domenico Dolce

Domenico reached out for the olive oil standing in a basket next to them and poured a large dollop into his hand before winking at Seth, beyond excited. "It will feel like the first time again."
Seth pouted, which didn't make him look any less horny. "Because it's 'extra virgin'? — K.A. Merikan

To me, the most emotional thing is to see regular people wearing our clothes. Yes, sometimes I see our clothes on somebody, and I think, 'No!', but you can't stop someone in the street and say, 'Please go home and change.' — Domenico Dolce

This is the problem today. Men and women have switched places. The woman now acts more like the man. — Domenico Dolce

I cook and wash, cook and wash. When I am done, the kitchen is like a mirror. — Domenico Dolce

People say: 'Models are so young, they're so skinny.' But Mr. Balenciaga used models at 16, and that will never change. People say they are skinny, but there is a difference between skinny and sick. If someone is sick, they're sick. It's not because of fashion. If I have flu, I have flu; it's not because I work in fashion. — Domenico Dolce

We live the life, but in an honest way. Without compromise, without corruption. This I understand now is the big key to my power - the power of Dolce & Gabbana. It's not just the clothes. It's love for the people. — Domenico Dolce

You need to be ahead of the game just enough so that you can have what people want in the shops when they want it. — Domenico Dolce

Our fashion for us, it's an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but this is a mirror, an expression about Domenico and Stefano. It's not just a profession: it's a person with a lot of personality. — Stefano Gabbana

For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families. — Domenico Dolce

When had I tamed myself? It had been a lengthy apprenticeship, begun when I was as young as ten, and continued relentlessly throughout my adolescence, when I had discovered to my own terror that I wanted to murder somebody: my father, a sarcastic friend, my professor of Latin and Greek, even a rude passerby. It was not until I was almost twenty that I began to suspect that, along with the repression of my violent impulses, I had repressed everything, even my ability to experience a profound emotion, even my impulse to do good deeds and help others. I had become as good as I had hoped to be, but good with the cautious detachment of one who never indulges in excess. — Domenico Starnone

Domenico had that 'look-at-me I've-got-money' attitude about him. A proper nouveau riche. In combination with his pig-like table manners at home, it was a sight to behold. — K.A. Merikan

Reason and faith are both banks of the same river. — Domenico Cieri

I love to listen to pop all the time! I like to be updated on the new hits; I think it's important for what we do. Among my favorites of all time is, of course, Madonna. But I also love Kylie, our little princess; Beyonce, Bruno Mars, and Justin Bieber. And I listen to Italian pop music like Tiziano Ferro. — Domenico Dolce

I hope the people remember Dolce & Gabbana for the sensuality, for the Mediterranean sense, for our honesty to the life. — Domenico Dolce

We built our fashion around three fundamental concepts: Sicily, tailoring, and tradition. Our dream is to create a style which is timeless, and to create clothes with such a strong personality that whoever sees them can instantly say without a shadow of a doubt: this is a Dolce & Gabbana. — Domenico Dolce

Domenico Scarlatti wrote 555 piano sonatas during his lifetime, most of them when he was between the ages of fifty-seven and sixty-two.) — Haruki Murakami

Domenico rolled his eyes. "You keep clinging to details whereas the bottom line is, one move of his ass, and you went after him like fucking Hansel to lick the witch's cunt in the gingerbread house." The — K.A. Merikan

If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. — Domenico Cieri

If you open my wardrobe, it's very boring. — Domenico Dolce

I want to dance. I want to live. — Domenico Dolce

Domenico groaned. "Don't call me that. Sounds like you're expecting me to take my bucket and go play in the sandbox. — K.A. Merikan

To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship. — Domenico Cieri

Concetta and Domenico Costa, Mariana Pontillo, the Arena family. We live. — Laurie Fabiano

onto his cock and smiling as if he just got into bed with David Gandy, which wasn't that far from the truth. Domenico knew his own worth. — K.A. Merikan

I think I'll take a shower, shave, get refreshed."
Domenico gave him a smile and lowered his voice. "Why? Because you still feel me inside?"
Seth bit his lip and started playing with his fingers. "You're always here, inside." Seth pointed to his heart, and it was so sweet, Dom hardly recognize the horny beast behind that facade.
He stared at Seth, unsure how to react to such honesty in reply to his dirty question. — K.A. Merikan

Show yourself more human than critical and your pleasure will increase. — Domenico Scarlatti

The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy. — Domenico Dolce

I'm obsessed with jackets. — Domenico Dolce

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it. — Domenico Cieri

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language. — Domenico Dolce

When I was 16, I knew I was gay. I loved a lot. But I lived as a straight guy, because there are people in my town who don't understand my story. I never told. I never wanted to show what was inside my heart. — Domenico Dolce

I'm a very curious person. — Domenico Dolce

We have never considered our brand superior or inferior to any other one, and we have never spoken about our work in comparison to anyone else's. We are ourselves; we have never had the presumption to please everyone, but we believe in the utmost liberty to express oneself. — Domenico Dolce

Tarots tell different sides of the various personalities that exist in all of us. I find it fascinating how they combine names, images, and numbers. You don't need to be able to read them, or know their real meaning, to be charmed. — Domenico Dolce