Stefano Quotes & Sayings

Luxury must have that over-the-top attitude but be effortless at the same time, that's what feels chic to me. — Stefano Pilati

[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out. — Stefano Benni

Scoring goals is like making love: everyone can do it, but nobody does it like me. — Alfredo Di Stefano

My dream is to have a baby, not to adopt one, because I am not up to it and I don't feel strong enough. I want my own child, a biological child, the fruit of my sperm, conceived through artificial insemination because it wouldn't make sense for me to make love to a woman I don't love. — Stefano Gabbana

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.' — Stefano Langone

The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that. — Stefano Langone

I am not a retailer - I have never run a store; I have never understood the full details of how you can make a consumer satisfied. To build a company, to do deals, to motivate people: this is what I am able to do. — Stefano Pessina

To me, flowers are happiness. — Stefano Gabbana

A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing. — Stefano Langone

I have to say that most of the deals I have done initially were badly received, and after a while, people realised that maybe I was not that wrong. — Stefano Pessina

I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents. A child needs a mother and a father. I could not imagine my childhood without my mother. I also believe that it is cruel to take a baby away from its mother. — Stefano Gabbana

While technology efficiently delivers news stories to our desktops, laptops and mobile devices, magazines are all about context - how ideas and images are presented in relation to one another and within a larger point of view. — Stefano Tonchi

I drive around on my scooter in Milan alone - we don't have bodyguards or anything like that. I am a fashion designer, not a celebrity, and although I get stopped for autographs and the like, I don't think I am famous. — Stefano Gabbana

Maybe he would not run away after all, even if exposed to all her family's idiosyncrasies. [Carlina's biggest fear about Stefano] — Beate Boeker

Don Alfredo, greatest legend of Real Madrid, always with us. I will always remember maestro. — Iker Casillas

Tell me why I shouldn't shoot you," Stefano murmured. Low, intimate, just between them.
"Fun ... would be over too fast? — Aleksandr Voinov

Fashion could be more relevant. It needs to be understood rather than just consumed. — Stefano Pilati

I had a few problems. I didn't realise it until I started going to therapy. I did it for 10 years, two days a week, and pretty quickly I understood that a lot of my suffering, many of my issues, were rooted in my realising that I was gay when I was a little boy. I knew I was different. That made me very fragile. — Stefano Gabbana

In life you need to take a risk. — Stefano Gabbana

Any open net was an unforgivable crime meriting immediate punishment, and [Di Stefano] carried out the sentence by stabbing at it like a mischievous elf. — Eduardo Galeano

I chose Real Madrid instead of Barcelona because I'm a winner, not a loser — Alfredo Di Stefano

Van Laningham estimated that he spoke with Carlos for dozens and dozens of hours while the FBI was recording and transcribing only those portions it was interested in.10 They were becoming fast friends, and the boss was — Stefano Vaccara

I am a serious guy. — Stefano Gabbana

Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing. — Joseph Stefano

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand. — Stefano Gabbana

Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck. — Stefano Gabbana

I retired at age 40 because my daughters looked at me one day and said: 'Dad, being bald and wearing shorts doesn't look good together'. — Alfredo Di Stefano

A 0-0 is like a Sunday without sun. — Alfredo Di Stefano

Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible. — Stefano Benni

I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me. — Joseph Stefano

We don't think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power. — Stefano Gabbana

Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur. — Stefano Gabbana

The most complete footballer in the history of the game. — Eusebio

Destiny cuts
the cake of love,
Three slices to some,
To others, a crumb. — Stefano Benni

It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the kind of shock today that we created in 1959. And I don't even want to try. — Joseph Stefano

I listened, I understood and I didn't understand. Long ago she had threatened Marcello with the shoemaker's knife simply because he had dared to grab my wrist and break the bracelet. From that point on, I was sure that if Marcello had just brushed against her she would have killed him. But toward Stefano, now, she showed no explicit aggression. Of course, the explanation was simple: we had seen our fathers beat our mothers from childhood. We had grown up thinking that a stranger must not even touch us, but that our father, our boyfriend, and our husband could hit us when they liked, out of love, to educate us, to reeducate us. As — Elena Ferrante

Every few years, in the world of sport, someone ascends to the most rarefied of all levels - the one at which it becomes news not when they win, but when they lose. It must have been like that in the early Fifties, when a tubby Italian called Alberto Ascari was stitching together nine Grand Prix wins in a row, a record not even Fangio, Clark or Senna could match. Or when the great Real Madrid side of Alfredo Di Stefano and Ferenc Puskas won the first five European Cup finals, between 1956 and 1960. Or when Martina Navratilova dominated Wimbledon's Centre Court, winning nine ladies' singles titles in thirteen years. The current Australian cricket team is in just such a run at present, having just completed nine consecutive victories, putting them four wins away from establishing an all-time record. And then there is Tiger Woods. — Richard Williams

It's always the same - all men and women want to be sexy. — Stefano Gabbana

I like to eat pizza and spaghetti pomodoro, and I'm crazy for dessert. I like all of them: cassata, cheesecake, biscuits. — Stefano Gabbana

Don Alfredo leaves us, but his memory will last forever in our hearts. Legends never die. Thanks for everything Maestro. — Cristiano Ronaldo

I hope they see the genuine side of me, of my music, of my voice. I hope that they feel me. I hope that what I sing and what I say really gets across to the viewer because everything that comes out is true. — Stefano Langone

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility. — Stefano Gabbana

I adore Britain! It's my favourite country; I love their eccentricity. I find Britain so inspiring. — Stefano Gabbana

I went to Lila's house in search of comfort. But I knew I had made a mistake with her, too. I had done something stupid: I hadn't told her about going with Stefano to get the photograph. Why had I been silent? Was I pleased with the role of peacemaker that her husband had proposed and did I think I could exercise it better by being silent about the visit to the Rettifilo? Had I been afraid of betraying Stefano's confidence and as a result, without realizing it, betrayed her? I didn't know. Certainly it hadn't been a real decision: rather, an uncertainty that first became a feigned carelessness, then the conviction that not having said right away what had happened made remedying the situation complicated and perhaps vain. How easy it was to do wrong. I sought excuses that might seem convincing to her, but I wasn't able to make them even to myself. I sensed that the foundations of my behavior were flawed, I was silent. On — Elena Ferrante

In my whole life, I've worn black tie three times. I can't tie the knot myself. — Stefano Gabbana

[M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say but however. These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very but however. — Stefano Benni

Our fashion for us, it's an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but this is a mirror, an expression about Domenico and Stefano. It's not just a profession: it's a person with a lot of personality. — Stefano Gabbana

I never talked about homosexuality with my family. After I was 18, they know everything, but I never talk; it was like an information but in silence. I start to talk when I was 32, it was good for me - it was like a liberation. I'm talking about a love story. I'm not talking about sex because love is love. — Stefano Gabbana

I love the Weather Channel because my mood changes a lot according to the weather! — Stefano Gabbana

But really it was just, it was perfect. You know, I actually got that feeling like you know what, maybe this is why I'm alive, you know - maybe this is why I'm here on this on earth. — Stefano Langone

The bus made its way slowly through Sydney traffic and out to the electorate of Reid. It was a hat-trick of medical centres: three in three days. Outside we waited as rain fell. A large truck with the huge face of Labor's local candidate Angelo Tsirekas plastered on the side, honked as it drove past the national media. Minutes later a bigger truck, bearing the face of the Liberal candidate Craig Laundy, drove slowly past, mugging it up for the cameras. There were a few giggles. Then, as if the whole thing had been co-ordinated, both trucks returned driving past the medical centre, up the street and around the corner, one after the other. A staff member of the medical centre leant over to his friend and spoke out of the side of his mouth: "Well isn't this the lamest dick-measuring contest you've ever seen. — Mark Di Stefano

Not ... good." Stefano pressed his lips together.
"Okay. Don't speak I'll touch you, okay?"
"You do," Stefano answered. You do touch me. — Aleksandr Voinov

Magazines are about trust and partnership: We, the editors, will strive always to keep you engaged; you, the readers, are free to engage with us or to reject us. — Stefano Tonchi

The fashion industry now has a direct relationship with its customers. Thanks to things like Twitter, ideas can be shared and circulated. — Stefano Gabbana

You don't change your style by changing your bag. You change it with your clothes. — Stefano Gabbana

Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses. — Stefano Pessina

I don't look at fashion shows on the internet because it's too flat. — Stefano Gabbana

Italians know that what matters is style, not fashion. Italian style does not have social or age boundaries. — Stefano Gabbana

You can do what you want, at home. But when you go out, keep it together. — Stefano Pilati

When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone. — Stefano Benni

We were mainly concerned about nudity - how much could be shown in 1959 and how much would convey, without being gratuitous, the terror of being attacked naked and wet. — Joseph Stefano

My mum is totally crazy for fashion still. Her job was as a laundress, but I loved it when she would dress up in her red suit with a mini jacket and flared trousers and get her wig fixed at the hairdresser's - it was the time of wigs - and we would go shopping. — Stefano Gabbana

Reputations do not win matches and trophies, only goals can do that — Alfredo Di Stefano

My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera. — Stefano Langone

I [glanced] at his soldiers with a curling lip. I had learned this gesture from watching Stefano. Apparently it was just as annoying on my face ... — Barbara Michaels

The ball gave me prestige, gave me fame, gave me riches. Thank you, my old friend. — Alfredo Di Stefano

No one player is as good as the sum of a team — Alfredo Di Stefano

Carlina felt as if sudden sunshine had filled the kitchen ... [Carlina's reaction to Stefano Garini] — Beate Boeker

Most people who bother to think about plants at all tend to regard them as the mute, immobile furniture of our world - useful enough, and generally attractive, but obviously second-class citizens in the republic of life on Earth. — Stefano Mancuso

Customers are very demanding and well informed. — Stefano Gabbana

You still waste time with those things, Lenu? We are flying over a ball of fire. The part that has cooled floats on the lava. On that part we construct the buildings, the bridges, and the streets, and every so often the lava comes out of Vesuvius or causes an earthquake that destroys everything. There are microbes everywhere that make us sick and die. There are wars. There is a poverty that makes us all cruel. Every second something might happen that will cause you such suffering that you'll never have enough tears. And what are you doing? A theology course in which you struggle to understand what the Holy Spirit is? Forget it, it was the Devil who invented the world, not the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Do you want to see the string of pearls that Stefano gave me? — Elena Ferrante

A son is a poor substitute for a mother. — Joseph Stefano

What I can say is that there are some collections that come easily, and others that require more work. — Stefano Gabbana

Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure. — Joseph Stefano

I don't want to be idolized, I just want to play. And to do that you have to run and sweat, — Alfredo Di Stefano

I don't have the time to be bored. — Stefano Gabbana

We feel a special bond with Sicily and its people - in fact, our first campaigns were shot in Sicily, like the one shot in Vucciria Sicilian historical market We enjoyed showing the faces and the characters that crowd that beautiful market every day. — Stefano Gabbana

What the fashion system says and what the fashion customer says are really two different things. — Stefano Gabbana

Understand ... I don't hate her, I hate what she's become. I hate her illness. — Joseph Stefano

Critics have always questioned whether players like Pele from the 50s could play today. Lionel Messi could play in the 1950s and the present day, as could Di Stefano, Pele, Maradona, Cruyff because they are all great players. Lionel Messi without question fits into that category. — Alex Ferguson

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive. — Stefano Benni

I reshuffled the cards that by now we knew well enough. I spoke of the before and the after, of the old generation and of ours, of how we were different, of how she and Stefano were different. And this last argument made a breach, seduced her, I returned to it passionately. She listened to me in silence, evidently she wanted to be helped to compose herself, and slowly she did. — Elena Ferrante

How is it possible," an educated Mohammedan asked a missionary bishop, "that bread and wine should become the Flesh and Blood of Christ?" The bishop answered, "You were tiny when you were born. You grew big because your body transformed the food you ate into your flesh and blood. If a man's body is able to change bread and wine into flesh and blood, then God can do this far more easily. — Stefano M. Manelli

For me, the future isn't coming from the USA, like it was before. — Stefano Gabbana

The best of all was Pele, who is a mixture of Di Stefano, Maradona, Cruyff and Leo Messi. — Osvaldo Ardiles

The first thing I do when I come to work, I say hello to my dogs and give them one biscuit each. The butler takes them out to the park and drops them off at the office, so they are there waiting for me. They are very popular in the studio. They play all the time. They run around, up and down, left and right. — Stefano Gabbana

If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever. — Stefano Benni

A great amongst the greats. — Michel Platini

My brain goes in just one direction. The Future. I don't worry about the present. By the time you talk about the present, it's gone. — Stefano Pessina

I'm a man, I'm not just a fashion designer. — Stefano Gabbana

The first thing I do when I wake up is take a cup of tea, a cup of coffee, and vitamins, and then I look at my dogs. I have three dogs, Rosa, Toto, and Mimmo, all Labradors. — Stefano Gabbana

RIP Sir Alfredo Di Stefano. I will never forget each of the shared moments with such a football legend. — Sergio Ramos

The winter was blasting its cold winds of dire portent into the tender face of springtime. — Stefano Benni

Fashion is OK for five days, one minute, six months, but style is for the rest of the life. — Stefano Gabbana

Oh, my father sighs, if only we had a screwdriver that could unscrew wrongheaded ideas; if only we had a hammer to drive home good intentions; if only we had a pipe wrench to tighten hearts in everlasting love; a saw that we could use to make a clean cut with the past! — Stefano Benni

Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her. — Joseph Stefano

I like Passion Duo, our brand-new gloss fusion lipstick. I also like our Illuminator - it's a glow-illuminating powder. — Stefano Gabbana

Dolce & Gabbana is like our child. The editing of a collection before a show is a tough call, as we would like to show everything! — Stefano Gabbana

My memories are of denim. I remember being 12 in my Levi's. Wow! As a teenager in Milan, I was really fascinated by Fiorucci, but at the time I was not rich enough to buy. Oh my God! I made a collection of Fiorucci shopping bags, and my mother, she still has them and my stickers, and now I invite Elio Fiorucci to our shows. — Stefano Gabbana

Her thoughts went to Stefano Garini as if pulled by an elastic - whenever she didn't pay attention, they snapped back to him. [Carlina's attraction to Stefano] — Beate Boeker