Quotes & Sayings About Palermo

I love to mix colors. For me, I don't have a rule, like "you can't wear silver and gold." You can mix it. — Olivia Palermo

I really get inspired by stylish girls around the world that I see on the street. Colors, patterns, throughout my travels, whatever catches my eye. — Olivia Palermo

Despite what you've read, your sadness is not beautiful. No one will see you in the bookstore, curled up with your Bukowski, and want to save you.
Stop waiting for a salvation that will not come from the grey-eyed boy looking for an annotated copy of Shakespeare,
for an end to your sadness in Keats.
He coughed up his lungs at 25, and flowery words cannot conceal a life barely lived.
Your life is fragile, just beginning, teetering on the violent edge of the world.
Your sadness will bury you alive, and you are the only one who can shovel your way out with hardened hands and ragged fingernails, bleeding your despair into the unforgiving earth.
Darling, you see, no heroes are coming for you. Grab your sword, and don your own armor. — Emily Palermo

And Death, in his shame,
built a kingdom from dust
as penance, as proof,
that his fingers were made
for more than destruction. — Emily Palermo

I always like to play with a lot of color. Color is great. — Olivia Palermo

But you see, there is
a graveyard in my mouth
filled with words that
have died on my lips. — Emily Palermo

The band that I was I auditioning for, they were just all like, dreads and stuff, so I did look kind of out of place. But I had learned the material and it sounded cool as f**k when we were rehearsing. — Tony Palermo

It's really on the streets, if I'm in a car, or I'm walking by, and I see a girl. And you can see it, on her face, you can see it in her step and the way that she moves and flows, and you're like: "You go girl." And it's fun, and sometimes you just have to go up and be like, "You look fantastic!" — Olivia Palermo

I have known people throughout my years of playing where maybe they had a gig, but then lost the gig because they didn't really move forward with them. — Tony Palermo

I definitely take inspiration from runway trends but also throughout my travels, I see editorials all over in all of the different publications. — Olivia Palermo

You always go in with the intention of playing your best and knowing the material you're auditioning. — Tony Palermo

I spend the first half of my day dealing with Europe because of the time difference. Then in the evening my website gets my undivided attention. — Olivia Palermo

Fashion has always been in my life, thanks to my mother and my aunt growing up. I think as I became an adult, my style evolved, and my love of fashion evolved even more. — Olivia Palermo

Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect. — Oscar Wilde

We're striving to stay in the arenas. We [Papa Roach] had just little things that just took our show a step up and were so stoked for that. — Tony Palermo

Papa Roach is actually a band that's great at playing arenas. Not every band is suited for that environment. But besides the huge energy you guys bring, the songs are very grand and anthemic. "Kick in the Teeth" being an example as a song that's made for huge crowd sing-alongs, not tiny little club shows. — Tony Palermo

I was still doing the punk thing, but also playing in some indie bands, I had a less crazy hairstyle. — Tony Palermo

But being energetic in my playing is something I've always thought was the right thing to do. Like I'm never forcing it, like "My God, I've gotta play so hard tonight!" — Tony Palermo

I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat. — Tony Palermo

Her gaze dims as her nostalgia for Palermo overcomes her. Those smells of seaweed dried by the sun, of capers, of ripe figs, she will never find them anywhere else; those burnt and scented shores, those waves slowly breaking, jasmine petals flaking in the sun. — Dacia Maraini

Growing up, I wanted to be a sports commentator. Then my aunt introduced me to the fashion industry, and everything sort of fell into place. — Olivia Palermo

Papa Roach are not just going to take tours just to take tours. — Tony Palermo

I always have a vision when I go in, I always know what I want to do. — Olivia Palermo

Once when the Yankee's Lou Pinella was batting he questioned a Palermo strike call. Pinella demanded, "Where was that pitch at?" Palermo told him that a man wearing Yankee pinstripes in front of 30,000 people should not end a sentence with a preposition. So Pinella, no dummy, said, "OK, where was that pitch at, asshole?" — George Will

I filled in for Papa Roach because we weren't doing much. Unwritten Law had a few more shows booked, but I got the call to fill in again at the end of the year. I was like, "I have to make myself available to these guys." — Tony Palermo

Of course I love leather, and I love stingray. So combining the two and adding those gold elements - I always love a great gold accessory. — Olivia Palermo

It's always great to have two inspirations, one that has more of an editorial purpose and one for more of an everyday, wearable approach. — Olivia Palermo

I want to be a mystery to you,
untouchable,
a star all to myself
a galaxy away from your starved fingers. — Emily Palermo

I kind of took inspiration from my time in Paris. That was kind of the real time when I discovered European fashion. It's stuck with me since University. — Olivia Palermo

In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan's Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap. — Pete Hamill

I may be a young girl, but behind every young girl is a powerful father. — Olivia Palermo

I always have an idea in the back of my head, but that goes with anything else that I'm doing. There is a sort of vision behind it. — Olivia Palermo

When a label is throwing money at you, you have to recoup it. — Tony Palermo

The time eras that I really like are more on '50s and '60s. — Olivia Palermo

I don't look at paparazzi photos. And most of my friends don't want to be photographed, so they walk four feet to the side. If you see a photo of me laughing, that's why - because my friends don't want to walk with me. — Olivia Palermo

It is not from their intrinsic nature that goods gain the character of economic goods, but through their relation to men and through their ability to lead, directly or indirectly, to the satisfaction of human needs. — Sandye Gloria-Palermo

The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think life is about falling in love with the right person, shopping, eating our favorite desserts and traveling a lot. — Olivia Palermo

I think being organized should be in your lifestyle. I run a few different businesses, so I have to be organized. And I think everyone around me will also feel organized. To have chaos going on, it just doesn't work. — Olivia Palermo

I get my inspiration from young stylish girls I see all over my travels. — Olivia Palermo

Charles L. Allen once said, "When you say a person or situation is hopeless, you are slamming a door in the face of God." Ouch. It is easy to focus on the doors being slammed (rejection, illness, fatigue, failures) and not see things from God's perspective. He never leaves us. — Celeste Palermo

I've always had the mentality of: work hard, get to bed early, focus - and let your work speak for itself. — Olivia Palermo

A lot of the time, if I have samples, I can't tailor a sample. Or, I might have just bought something and I don't have time to go to the tailor, there are ways to take thin, skinny belts and layer them, and do quick little fixes. — Olivia Palermo

I mean that's something we're very conscious of when writing. Tempos are very important. Like "Oh we can't play the song too fast because people aren't going to feel it." There's a pulse to a song. You can't play it too slow. We're always trying to find the perfect tempo. — Tony Palermo

I love the mid-length skirt. That's really appropriate, you can wear that in many different day occasions. — Olivia Palermo

Sometimes belts are flattering, and it helps with proportions. — Olivia Palermo

In this city [Palermo] ... it's the souls of the dead who bring presents to the children ... We go to the cemetery to ask the dead for toys. — Gianni Riotta

My mom instilled in me at a young age how important it is to be properly dressed when you leave the house, no matter the time of day. Even if it's 4:30 A.M. and you're heading to the airport, you want to look and feel your best. — Olivia Palermo

I'm a much nicer person, much more laid-back and relaxed, not serious like they show me. — Olivia Palermo

When I joined, they were like "Woah, dude!", because I came right out of that type of playing. But obviously with P. Roach there's more groove. I like doing those slower big fills, but I also like injecting some of that punk rock urgency. But I definitely need to mix it up, because if I was playing all fast fills all the time, it just wouldn't work. — Tony Palermo

Even if trafficked sex workers initially chose to go abroad to do sex work,
they had been led to believe they would do so under different conditions than the
slavery-like forced prostitution they were eventually subjected to. Following the
definition of the Palermo Protocol, their knowingly entering prostitution does not
make women less of a victim if they are eventually deceived and forced to do
the sex work. — Jan Van Dijk

Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips. — Calvin Trillin

We[ Papa Roach ]'re always trying to get bigger and bigger. It's weird because I wasn't around when they sold millions of records. Now it's just always about "OK what new people can we get to." We're trying to package up with younger bands like Bring Me the Horizon or Of Mice and Men. Those bands always get talked about, because their demographic is so young. But, actually we are seeing a lot of younger people at shows which is awesome. — Tony Palermo