Top 68 Alessandro D'avenia Quotes
#1. He was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.
Alessandro Baricco
#2. To the sight of the swallows dying in mid air, Alessandro was finally able to add his own benediction. "Dear God, I beg of you only one thing. Let me join the ones I love. Carry me to them, unite me with them, let me see them, let me touch them." And then it all ran together, like a song.
Mark Helprin
#3. I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.
Alessandro Nivola
#5. Rules of science." Alessandro shrugged his elegant shoulders. "And what are those? We don't even know how this works." He pointed to his head.
Magnus Flyte
#6. Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened.
Alessandro Manzoni
#7. Yeah, I've played a lot of instruments, and I played in a lot of bands growing up, and I've even had to play music in a lot of films that I've done.
Alessandro Nivola
#8. I even scored Monaco's goal too. Please, put it down as an own goal for me!
Alessandro Del Piero
#9. Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life.
Alessandro Nivola
#10. There are so many factors that go into how you feel, as a performer, on any given movie, that it's really hard to identify which things are the things that help you be good, and which are the things that hinder you.
Alessandro Nivola
#11. I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.
Alessandro Nivola
#12. Never forget where you came from, Gina Attaviano, Alessandro said to her before he died. Then it will always be easy.
Paullina Simons
#13. Every so often I wonder what on earth we are waiting for. Silence. For it to be too late, Madame.
Alessandro Baricco
#14. What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?
Alessandro Volta
#16. The last light, in the last window, went out. Only the unstoppable machine of the sea still tears away at the silence with the cyclical explosion of nocturnal waves, distant memories of sleepwalking storms and the shipwrecks of dream.
Alessandro Baricco
#17. Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
Tom Spanbauer
#18. This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It's a place that does not exist.
Alessandro Baricco
#19. Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say
Alessandro Baricco
#21. 'Cause there's the Jews you know. And then there's The Jews, you know?
Romina D'Alessandro
#22. Papa," Alessandro said, his eyes closing. "She swims nude in the sea. She carries a pistol. And she wears perfume that makes me dizzy. Sometimes I go to the garden gate and smell the handle, because, when she touches it, the perfume stays.
Mark Helprin
#23. He'd heard about Holly putting some magical whammy on him, bringing to life the legend of the Chosen that gave a vampire the power to exist on sexual energy rather than blood. Forced to have sex on a regular basis. Doctor's orders. Lucky bastard.
Sharon Ashwood
#24. Romeo was cute ... "
"Cute?" Alessandro rolled his eyes. "What kind of man is cute?"
" ... and an excellent dancer ... "
"Romeo had feet of lead! He said so himself!"
" ... but most importantly," I concluded, "he had nice hands!
Anne Fortier
#25. I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.
Alessandro Nivola
#26. It's not your responsibility to have the bigger picture in mind. But, the downside is that then, a lot of times, you're disappointed by the movies that are made around you.
Alessandro Nivola
#27. I have cried twice in my life watching a football player; the first one was Maradona and the second was Ryan Giggs.
Alessandro Del Piero
#28. You're never really done for, as long as you've got a good story and someone to tell it to.
Alessandro Baricco
#31. Oh dear, is that a skunk?" Leonora asked.
"No," Alessandro gasped in horror. "No the smelly cat!"
"I've told you, Alessandro darling, they aren't cats."
"They look like cats. Like the big fluffy cat she's been stepped on and flattened to a big fluffy pancake cat," Alessandro argued.
Lynsay Sands
#32. Good brands do three things for highly stressed out consumers: 1. They save time. 2. They project the right message. 3. They provide an identity.
David F. D'Alessandro
#33. Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.
Alessandro Pertini
#34. At this instant, Alessandro was electrified, as if lightning had struck the telephone wire or Saint Elmo's fire had filled the room, for part of the dream that he could not recall had come back to him with full force.
Mark Helprin
#35. I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
Lapo Elkann
#36. Only the rustle of those colours waving in the air, impenetrable, lighter than nothingness
Alessandro Baricco
#37. I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.
Alessandro Nivola
#38. Money is not everything. My ambition was football itself, not the money I'd make from it. If that brings me and my family a more comfortable lifestyle, then that's fine. But I don't spend my time between games and training sessions thinking about figures.
Alessandro Del Piero
#39. A strong brand is the only thing that can tip the balance of power between distributors and a manufacturer back into the manufacturer's favor.
David F. D'Alessandro
#40. Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature.
David F. D'Alessandro
#41. As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.
Alessandro Baricco
#42. People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.
Alessandro Nivola
#43. I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.
Alessandro Baricco
#44. Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?
E. Lockhart
#45. You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.
Alessandro Nivola
#46. When loneliness mastered him he would go up to the cemetery ... The rest of his time was taken up with a liturgy of habits that succeeded in warding off sadness.
Alessandro Baricco
#47. I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
Alessandro Nivola
#48. In the world I inhabit, there is a shortage of intellectual honesty, but not of intelligence.
Alessandro Baricco
#50. Messi on the World Cup 2014? He showed why he is the best player in the world. It was a pleasure to see him play.
Alessandro Del Piero
#51. The great lesson of the Internet revolution is not that people never want personal service, just that they won't pay for personal service that does not add real value to the transaction.
David F. D'Alessandro
#54. Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.
Alessandro Manzoni
#56. Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under two general headings: boredom and the desire for growth.
David F. D'Alessandro
#57. Italy have plenty of high-quality players. Newcomers need time to get adjusted to the set-up and the system of play. I'm very young, and although I think I have shown good quality in my international games, I realise that there are plenty of others competing for places.
Alessandro Del Piero
#58. She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind
Alessandro Baricco
#59. It's not fair, but it's not entirely wrong to presume that the more capable people will come from the better brand.
David F. D'Alessandro
#60. While the importance of a strong brand is widely understood, nothing is as misunderstood in American business as the question of how to use it.
David F. D'Alessandro
#61. The truth is the best brands, like the most interesting people, have a keen sense of self.
David F. D'Alessandro
#62. Do not allow your enemy to define you. Because if you allow yourself to be defined negatively, nothing positive you say about yourself will register.
David F. D'Alessandro
#63. Christ on crackers, she'd barely gotten over finding out about the others: if she had to start believing aliens were real, too, she was finished. she'd stab herself in the heart with a blue pencil just see if she didn't.
-Corinne D'Alessandro
Christine Warren
#64. The real lesson Orville (Redenbacher) taught me was the power of a good brand to trump all rhyme or reason in the marketplace.
David F. D'Alessandro
#65. Brand is everything, the stuff you want to communicate to consumers and the stuff you communicate despite yourself.
David F. D'Alessandro
#67. It is not easy to build a great brand. It takes leadership to persuade the rest of the company to follow your vision. It takes an artistic sense of proportion and timing. It takes a ruthless willingness to distinguish yourself from competing brands and, hopefully, bury them in the process.
David F. D'Alessandro
#68. I often thought about him during the war; if only 1900 were here, who knows what he'd do, what he'd say. 'Fuck war' he'd say. But somehow, coming from me, it wasn't the same.
Alessandro Baricco
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