Botticelli's Quotes

#1. Giovanni's behavior had changed dramatically since he had opened that crate. He felt haunted. [After meeting the portrait of Botticelli's Bastard]

Stephen Maitland-Lewis

#2. She wanted to be someone's muse - to be worshipped and adored, body and soul. She wanted to play Beatrice to a dashing and noble Dante and to inhabit Paradise with him forever. And to live a life that would rival the beauty of Botticelli's illustrations.

Sylvain Reynard

#3. One of the drivers of heroin has been the misuse of pain medication. If we're gonna deal with heroin and heroin use in the United States, we really have to focus on reducing the magnitude of the prescription drug use issue.

Michael Botticelli

#4. If I, in some small way can help people to see that there is this huge, incredible life on the other side of addiction, you know, I will feel accomplished in my job.

Michael Botticelli

#5. I think it's overly simplistic to say that any one single strategy is going to really change the focus and change the trajectory of drug use.

Michael Botticelli

#6. It was worse than murder. It was twisted, wretched perversion, as though someone had bludgeoned another person to death with a Botticelli, turned something of beauty to an act of utter destruction.

Jim Butcher

#7. We can't arrest and incarcerate addiction out of people. Not only do I think it's really inhumane, but it's ineffective and it cost us billions upon billions of dollars to keep doing this.

Michael Botticelli

#8. Mmm." The vibration in his chest pressed against her back shot sparks of hot lust through her. "I love you this way." He guided his erection to nudge her entrance. "I love you every way."
Katya smiled and pushed back against him. "I love you, too.

Bonnie Dee

#9. Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them.

Hanya Yanagihara

#10. Was it me that Botticelli imagined?

Brigitte Bardot

#11. The Bible is more to be admired than the Louvre Museum, and the Gospel of John is perhaps its Mona Lisa.

James M. Hamilton Jr.

#12. Reality is inside the skull.

George Orwell

#13. If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

Peter Ustinov

#14. I'm one of 23 million Americans in recovery who have gone on to live productive lives.

Michael Botticelli

#15. I refused to believe that someone who had a voice that angelic could be bad. I knew it was illogical to think that way, but I had to believe in something good.

Amanda Giasson

#16. People drink and do drugs for a reason. Cause it makes them feel good - until it doesn't anymore.

Michael Botticelli

#17. Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.

Mason Cooley

#18. Prescription drugs and heroin act in very similar ways on the brain. And, unfortunately, heroin, because of its widespread availability is a lot cheaper.

Michael Botticelli

#19. I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out of fashion. Imagine, Botticelli was out of fashion!

Norbert Bisky

#20. The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.

Michael Botticelli

#21. I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

Berthe Morisot

#22. Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are in for drug crimes.

Michael Botticelli

#23. I would say that I probably had an unhealthy love affair with drinking. I grew up as this kind of insecure kid, you know, kind of making my way. And drinking took all of that away.

Michael Botticelli

#24. And his mother, especially as Botticelli had painted her and Auge carved her, seemed like a perfectly nice goddess.

Jo Walton

#25. Botticelli would have made a very good fashion photographer. He did eight heads instead of seven heads in a body, which is fashion illustration.

David Bailey

#26. Addiction is such an isolating incident in your life. You feel alone. And when you admit, when you come into a fellowship and people just surround you and say, "We will help you, that you're not alone, that we've been through it before, and you will get through it," just gives you such great hope.

Michael Botticelli

#27. Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.

Michael Botticelli