Portaluppi Villa Quotes & Sayings

MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced a radical suspension of disbelief. As in the early days of the cinema, all the citizens are jumping through the screen to lay their hands on the naked lady in the bathtub!
AMBASSADOR: And yet, in fact, their fingers touch flesh.
MINISTER: They believe they do. Yet all they touch is substantial shadow.
AMBASSADOR: And what a beautiful definition of flesh! You know I am only substantial shadow, Minister, but if you cut me, I bleed. Touch me, I palpitate! — Angela Carter

His name escaped her lips as a whisper: Balthazar — Claudia Gray

I went from working with Spielberg to working with Clint Eastwood - I might as well just retire. — Owain Yeoman

Sunshine's of daily life:Love unconditionally. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone. — Penn Jillette

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind. — Gore Vidal

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation. — Stendhal

How can you not be concerned that I might have cancer?" I ask. "I found a lump on my breast." Touch it, Ely. Touch it. "Lie. Not only are you biting your lip, which you always do when you lie, but your mom told me about the alleged lump in the elevator this morning. The doctor said it was an overgrown pimple." Monkeys! — Rachel Cohn

The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: "This is the end." Because it would have been. — Angela Carter

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign ... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life. — Plutarch

We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made. — Elizabeth Rodriguez

A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community to ensure that the necessary support is forthcoming. — Koichiro Matsuura

All companies are service companies; some also manufacture products. — Peter Drucker

Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility. — Alex Lemon