Top 52 Bruni's Quotes
#1. I wish I could say that Carla Bruni's Guess campaign at age 16 led to her current role as First Lady of France, but that might be a stretch.
Paul Marciano
#2. Are you afraid a demon has escaped Hell in order to descend upon the Venetians?"
"I think there are a few who'd deserve it, but I'm also a man of science, and I believe that we all carry our own private infernos inside ourselves."
-Conversation between Majid and Mathias
Riccardo Bruni
#3. There are always entire worlds that exist alongside the one you think you've chosen to live in. Sometimes you chose the worlds, and sometimes they chose you.
Sarah Bruni
#4. After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.
Frank Bruni
#5. Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.
Carla Bruni
#6. My dream life is just to go back to my job full-time. And be with my family. You know, regular dreams, common dreams that everyone has.
Carla Bruni
#7. My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
Carla Bruni
#8. You must always conduct your business with a clear mind, free of personal issues. Until you learn this simple fact, you'll never get anything out of life. -Moses Luzzatto
Riccardo Bruni
#9. I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
Carla Bruni
#10. You live in a damnably twisted and convoluted world," replied Mathias. "And you are trampling accross it with all the delicacy of an elephant in a glass shop!" -Conversation between Mathias Munster and Giacomo Foscarini
Riccardo Bruni
#11. I'm crazy about Israel. It's full of life.
Carla Bruni
#12. Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.
Frank Bruni
#13. In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
Carla Bruni
#14. It's always astounded me to have succeeded at having kids. It's crazy!
Carla Bruni
#15. I'm monogamous from time to time, but I prefer polygamy and polyandry.
Carla Bruni
#16. [Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.
Frank Bruni
#17. I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
Carla Bruni
#18. I like peace and solitude and silence.
Carla Bruni
#19. I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
Carla Bruni
#20. He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.
Frank Bruni
#21. I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.
Carla Bruni
#22. In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.
Frank Bruni
#23. But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
Carla Bruni
#24. I hoped that, you know, France wouldn't mind about, you know, the wife of their president to having a job.
Carla Bruni
#25. The inclination to consider UPenn, not attendance at UPenn, is the key to future earnings.
Frank Bruni
#26. I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
Carla Bruni
#27. College is a singular opportunity to rummage through and luxuriate in ideas, to give your brain a vigorous workout and your soul a thorough investigation, to realize how very large the world is and to contemplate your desired place in it.
Frank Bruni
#29. When I was having my hair and make-up done backstage at a fashion show, I would sneak in a copy of Dostoevsky and read it inside a copy of Elle or Vogue. But it would be pretentious of me to say I was more intelligent than the other supermodels.
Carla Bruni
#30. He was going to hurt the people he hated, but inside he didn't feel any real sense of satisfaction. He hated them all the more for having made him feel so small, so petty and mean, which was all he felt just then. But it wasn't enough to stop him.
Riccardo Bruni
#31. My favorite Congressional incongruity: ... Red State legislators galumphing from meeting to meeting in full pancake makeup. Estee Lauder may well make more money on Capitol Hill than in Beverly Hills.
Frank Bruni
#33. I can no longer seduce because I love my husband ... I don't want to hurt him. I am no longer a man-eater.
Carla Bruni
#34. It seems like someone is using wars and our economic crisis to spread distrust and rancor among the population. In times like these, those are dangerous feelings to spread around.
Riccardo Bruni
#35. Thin people, God bless them, God curse them, don't get it: If you're not thin, you need to be careful and conscious about when and how you suitors initially see you.
Frank Bruni
#36. I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.
Carla Bruni
#37. I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
Carla Bruni
#38. I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
Carla Bruni
#39. Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?
Frank Bruni
#40. Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.
Frank Bruni
#41. I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.
Carla Bruni
#42. Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.
Carla Bruni
#43. I care about writing music and playing my music.
Carla Bruni
#44. Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!
Frank Bruni
#45. When I met Eric Clapton, I was a very young girl. I was 20 years old. And we were linked for a very short time, and then we became friends. And then we lost touch, which I'm really sorry about.
Carla Bruni
#46. There was no way to compare the feeling of being forgiven to anything else in this world.
Sarah Bruni
#47. It would never occur to me to judge anyone.
Carla Bruni
#48. My fear is that these kids are always going to be evaluating their self-worth in terms of whether they hit the next rung society has placed in front of them at exactly the time that society has placed it. And that's dangerous, because you're going to slip and fall in your life.
Frank Bruni
#49. I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.
Frank Bruni
#50. We don't need to be feminist in my generation.
Carla Bruni
#51. Rejection was arbitrary. Rejection was survivable.
Frank Bruni
#52. I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Strummer, their singer.
Carla Bruni
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