Signorina Quotes & Sayings

Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds. — Edmund Morgan

If I just got up in the morning and had no place to go and was retired or something, I would sit there and I would be thinking, "Gee, what is the purpose of life? Why are we all finite? Why do we get old and die? Is there nothing out there? Why is it so tragic? Why do our loved ones perish? Why do we generate?" So who wants to think about that stuff? — Woody Allen

But it was the newspapers that called John XXIII the Good Pope, and the people followed suit." "That's right. Newspapers teach people how to think," Simei said. "But do newspapers follow trends or create trends?" "They do both, Signorina Fresia. People don't know what the trends are, so we tell them, then they know. But let's not get too involved in philosophy - we're professionals. Carry on, Colonna. — Umberto Eco

There'll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read 'em but all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em. — Kevin Welch

You can't buy back your respect; you can't buy back your career. You only get one, so I don't want to mess that up. — Shia Labeouf

This is a world of the hunters and the hunted, signorina. Tonight you are the prey and I am the hunter! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Symmetry is only a property of dead things. Did you ever see a tree or a mountain that was symmetrical? It's fine for buildings, but if you ever see a symmetrical human face, you will have the impression that you ought to think it beautiful, but that in fact you find it cold. The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry, Kyria Pelagia. Look at your face in a mirror, Signorina, and you will see that one eyebrow is a little higher than the other, that the set of the lid of your left eye is such that the eye is a fraction more open that the other. It is these things that make you both attractive and beautiful, whereas ... otherwise you would be a statue. Symmetry is for God, not for us. — Louis De Bernieres

When I'm dying, I want dying to be my only regret. — Marty Rubin

I don't make the weather. You got a beef, take it up with God. That's what I've been doing a lot lately: taking it up with God. Like: God, WTF? — Rick Yancey

You can't make souffle rise twice. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress! — Azita Ghanizada

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. — Henri Frederic Amiel

It's all mine, it's all sacred. — Coco J. Ginger

A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself. — Freya Stark

Then the syncretist Ficino, sitting hunched with Lorenzo standing at his side, put all the ideas together, along with Lorenzo's new song: chariots blazing between the worlds as gods fought rebel gods, the destruction of a city
a planet?
by fire, beasts beyond imagining both to terrify and befriend the heroes.
"It needs a title," Signorina Scala said.
Pulci had his mouth open, but Ficino beat him to the pun.
"It shall be dedicated to Isis and Mars," he said, "and we will call it Stella Martis. — John M. Ford