Top 100 Alessandro Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Never forget where you came from, Gina Attaviano, Alessandro said to her before he died. Then it will always be easy.
Paullina Simons
#4. Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
Tom Spanbauer
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Don't call me Alessandro, or this could get ugly. Oh, then may I call you Alice?
E. Lockhart
#11. 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
#12. Alessandro learned yet again that the joy of escape is better than the joy of merely being free.
Mark Helprin
#13. Will not the Senorita trust me?"
Ramona smiled faintly through her tears. "Yes," she said. "I will trust you. You are Alessandro, are you not?"
"Yes, Senorita," he answered, greatly surprised, "I am Alessandro.
Helen Hunt Jackson
#14. Alessandro del Piero reminds me of Robert Rosario when I had him at Coventry.
Bobby Gould
#15. God made man because he loves to hear stories, Alessandro said. That's a good story, huh?
Tom Spanbauer
#16. Prague. Praha. The name actually meant "threshold". Pollina had said the city was a portal between the life of the good and ... the other. A city of dark magic, Alessandro had called it.
Magnus Flyte
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. I guess I've always wanted to push the boundaries as an actor.
Alessandro Nivola
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. I even scored Monaco's goal too. Please, put it down as an own goal for me!
Alessandro Del Piero
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Every so often I wonder what on earth we are waiting for. Silence. For it to be too late, Madame.
Alessandro Baricco
#27. What is it possible to do well, in physics particularly, if things are not reduced to degrees and measures?
Alessandro Volta
#29. 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
#30. This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It's a place that does not exist.
Alessandro Baricco
#31. Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say
Alessandro Baricco
#33. 'Cause there's the Jews you know. And then there's The Jews, you know?
Romina D'Alessandro
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. You're never really done for, as long as you've got a good story and someone to tell it to.
Alessandro Baricco
#41. 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
#42. Sometimes in life we must fight not only without fear, but also without hope.
Alessandro Pertini
#43. Only the rustle of those colours waving in the air, impenetrable, lighter than nothingness
Alessandro Baricco
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
Alessandro Nivola
#54. In the world I inhabit, there is a shortage of intellectual honesty, but not of intelligence.
Alessandro Baricco
#56. 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
#57. 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
#60. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. She had not really a sensitive soul, but to put it in exact terms, was possessed by an uncontrollable feeling of mind
Alessandro Baricco
#65. There's a sense of incomprehensible apocalypse in the air - we all feel it - and there's a rumor going around: the barbarians are coming.
Alessandro Baricco
#66. With the movies, you do your preparation on your own. It's much more internalized and ... the actual performance is a kind of, just trying to capture one moment at a time, for the first time.
Alessandro Nivola
#67. As captain, I must always be an example to my team-mates. I'm calm and I don't have any problem with the coach or with the club. My only goal is to be ready whenever I have the opportunity to play.
Alessandro Del Piero
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. As far as our fans are concerned, I'm the only one who counts; along with my teammates, obviously.
Alessandro Del Piero
#71. Had I found the back of the net it would have been a double satisfaction but I've scored many goals and the important thing was for me to play well.
Alessandro Del Piero
#72. Let us offer our hearts, wretched and empty as they are, to God, that He may be pleased to fill them with that charity which amends the past, which ensures the future, which fears and trusts, weeps and rejoices in its knowledge; which becomes in every instance the virtue of which we stand in need.
Alessandro Manzoni
#73. The truth is the best brands, like the most interesting people, have a keen sense of self.
David F. D'Alessandro
#74. I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more.
Alessandro Del Piero
#75. Messi is the real deal when it comes to Number 10s. He represents a type of football that transcends borders.
Alessandro Del Piero
#76. One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him
Alessandro Manzoni
#77. The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.
Alessandro Nivola
#78. When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself.
Alessandro Manzoni
#79. You can't sow without plowing first. First you have to break up the earth.
Alessandro Baricco
#81. 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
#83. Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
Alessandro Nivola
#84. He wasn't much cut out for serious conversations. And a goodbye is a serious conversation.
Alessandro Baricco
#85. I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.
Alessandro Manzoni
#87. It's a strange grief ... to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.
Alessandro Baricco
#89. It was surprising to consider that in fact there were signs, that is the embers of a voice destroyed by fire.
Alessandro Baricco
#91. The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination - not vice versa.
Alessandro Volta
#92. There are people who die and, with all due respect, you don't lose anything. But he was one of those that when they're gone you feel it. As if the whole world had become, from one day to the next, a little heavier.
Alessandro Baricco
#93. Do you have children? she asked.
No.
Why?
The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.
Alessandro Baricco
#96. When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.
Alessandro Nivola
#97. Because despair was an excess that did not belong to him, he submitted to what was left of his life, and began again to look after it, with the unyielding tenacity of a gardener at work the morning after the storm.
Alessandro Baricco
#98. You met over a pile of dead bodies mere days ago. Now he's carving little radish garnishes and humming to himself. It's creepy.
Sharon Ashwood
#99. 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
#100. In front of him, nothing. He had a sudden glimpse of what he had considered invisible. The end of the world.
Alessandro Baricco
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