Seemeseeyou Quotes & Sayings

I live in New York, but I am always delighted to come to Europe because I am European and grew up here until I was 20. I am not only Italian, I am partly Swedish. When my parents divorced, I was three years old and went to live in Paris ... when I am offered a film in Europe, I come with great enthusiasm! — Isabella Rossellini

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories. — Lord Dunsany

Oh, my dear friend, it is impossible not to give oneself away - unless one never opens one's mouth! Speech is the deadliest of revealers. — Agatha Christie

It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth. — Alberto Manguel

If you were looking aside and mentally adding up the hours until the execution of a young killer, all that registered was something dark flashing by. But if you happened to be gazing directly at the window in question and you happened as well to be feeling unprecedentedly calm, four-tenths of a second was more than enough time to identify the falling object as your husband of forty-seven years. — Jonathan Franzen

It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert. — Julia Child

This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life. — Julia Barr

I now spend my time solely on those activities that only I can do, and even then only on those activities that have the highest return. These — Lisa Nichols

If your creativity comes out of your silence, out of your Zen, out of your meditations, then it is authentic, original. If it comes only as an occupation because you are feeling lost and there is nothing to do - a long holiday, so you start doing something ... That is not coming out of your silences, it is coming out of your crazy mind. — Rajneesh

Everyone thinks I'm a hypochondriac. It makes me sick. — Felix Unger

There is a danger in becoming an icon, as people can see you as remote and untouchable, and they are less willing to tolerate you doing things that don't fit with their preconceived idea of you. Iconic status can be like a pair of handcuffs, especially if, like me, you wish to continually stretch yourself creatively, as Warhol did. — Giorgio Armani

President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure. — Ben Shapiro

don't label a lot of things good/bad. [Instead, I ask] can I evolve from this? What do I want now? — Timothy Ferriss