Severgnini Italians Quotes & Sayings

What one wants in the person one lives with is that they should keep one at one's best. — Virginia Woolf

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime. — Lydia Sigourney

So I'm sorry about that. And when I made the comment about you just wanting to get laid. I know that's not what you want. You're better than that and you deserve more than that. I know that doesn't mean a lot, but it wasn't the right way, and in the end, it was fucking pointless because here you are and I can't stay away from you. — J. Lynn

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

I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male dominated field from the outside, but from the inside what we know, those of us who read it, is that women buy the most crime fiction, they are by far the biggest readers of true crime, and there's a voracious appetite among women for these stories, and I know I feel it - since I was quite small I wanted to go to those dark places. — Megan Abbott

I'm not crazy to discuss fashion with men. I couldn't care less about their opinion. — Karl Lagerfeld

Even a fool could see that one didn't need a war, nuclear or otherwise, to destroy oneself; the rising cost of weaponry could do that quite nicely. — Stanislaw Lem

The 'Podunk Times' is not going to have a good dance critic, I absolutely promise you that. There's just not enough dance there. — Terry Teachout

Philosophers tell you what they think. Artists show you. — Marty Rubin

Nothingness is like the point of the stroboscopic spiral, which is who knows where, which is 'nobody. — Maurice Merleau Ponty