Top 100 Isabella I Quotes
#1. Isabella: "Why are you being so mean to me?"
Harry: "Because i love you"
Isabella: "Does that ever work?"
Harry: "On my mother it does."
Isabella: "I'm not your mother."
Harry: "I know that already, because I'm enjoying your company.
Claire LaZebnik
#2. I must capture the flag,' he breathed. 'That's what a pirate captain is supposed to do. Go to the roof, so I can capture the flag and gloat.'
'Capture the flag and goat?'
'Gloat.'
Isabella stood hands on hips. 'It's pronounced goooaaat, idiot.
Eoin Colfer
#3. Grapes are grown in such profusion in the Southern and Western States that I have seen damaged bunches thrown to the pigs. Americans find it difficult to understand how highly this fruit is prized in England.
Isabella Bird
#4. I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or Guy Maddin or Peter Weir who are considered not mainstream directors and that could be because they are like my dad. They are pioneers, and pioneers, by definition, invent something new.
Isabella Rossellini
#5. I don't look at 'Vogue' to ask what I'm going to wear. Because it's something on a body too young. I have to look at the social pages to see women my age. To see how Amanda Burden is dressed and say, 'Hmmm. Maybe I should try that.'
Isabella Rossellini
#6. When I took my clothes off in Blue Velvet, I wanted to convey the brutality of sex abuse. I wanted to look like a quartered cow hanging in a butcher shop as well as disturbingly appealing.
Isabella Rossellini
#8. That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.
Isabella Rossellini
#9. I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so many things are happening around us that we neglect to look at. Part of the passion I have for biology is based on this wonderment.
Isabella Rossellini
#10. When I grew up in Italy in the 1950s, it was still very agricultural. Food was very important; produce was very important. Everyone made their own olive oil. It took me a long time after I moved here to understand that Americans are much further away from their food.
Isabella Rossellini
#11. By the time I was successful with covers of 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar' and 'Vanity Fair' and the Lancome contract, someone asked how old I was. They almost fainted when I said 33.
Isabella Rossellini
#12. Isabella is busy," Louisa said. "She's frantically finishing preparations for the supper ball, as you know. I ought to be helping her." She fixed Mac a look. "So should you."
"I am helping her. I'm minding the children. A good husband knows when to stay out of the way of the whirling household.
Jennifer Ashley
#13. O that I were a man, or that I had power
To execute my apprehended wishes!
I would whip some with scorpions.
John Webster
#15. He sucked his lips in an attempt not to laugh. "Aren't you Spanish?"
She raised one arm in a salute. "Viva la Queen Isabella!"
"I see. Then why are you speaking with a French accent?
Julia Quinn
#16. I sat down and knitted for some time - my usual resource under discouraging circumstances.
Isabella L. Bird
#17. Leh has few of what Europeans regard as travelling necessaries. The brick tea which I purchased from a Lhassa trader was disgusting. I afterwards understood that blood is used in making up the blocks. The flour was gritty, and a leg of mutton turned out to be a limb of a goat of much experience.
Isabella Bird
#18. I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.
Isabella Rossellini
#19. As I grew older, I worked less as an actor and as a model, and I went back to what I had tried to do when I was young but wasn't really available. I'm so glad now to be in my sixties and to be able to go back to school.
Isabella Rossellini
#20. One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children - only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.
Isabella Bird
#22. If you don't wear lipstick, I can't talk to you.
Isabella Blow
#25. I draw strength from spirit, from the divine light. I draw strength from the love my sister and I have for each other, from my nieces, Christina and Isabella, and the true friendships I have in my life that are based in being real with each other and mutual love and support.
Agapi Stassinopoulos
#26. I don't use a hat as a prop. I use it as a part of me.
Isabella Blow
#27. I am much more radical in my beliefs than my products represent me to be.
Isabella Rossellini
#28. Is she sane?' asked Mrs. Linton, appealing to me. 'I'll repeat our conversation, word for word, Isabella; and you point out any charm it could have had for you.
Emily Bronte
#29. Life changes. It shapes itself into the most indefinite things; can become its opposite in a matter of seconds. Sometimes people scorn the quick, sharp tongue of life, but I don't think that's fair. Why would you act against something that's just doing its job?
Isabella Sutter
#31. I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.
Isabella Bird
#32. Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a babysitter to softboil an egg for my son and she didn't know how, I was shocked.
Isabella Rossellini
#34. Well, then, I must say that I do not like him at all. Though it has turned out so well for us, I do not like him at all. As it happens, there is no great harm done, because I do not think Isabella has any heart to lose. But, suppose he had made her very much in love with him?
Jane Austen
#35. I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model.
Isabella Rossellini
#36. But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored!
Isabella Rossellini
#37. Playing Isabella in 'Measure for Measure' pushed me to my limits. Janet Suzman was directing, and she was very hard on me. I went through phases of not liking her at the time, but I loved her for it in the end.
Michelle Dockery
#38. I always dreamed when I was a little girl interested in animals that I would go live in Africa. Then I found out that you can look in your backyard, and you can do your own safari.
Isabella Rossellini
#39. From the time I was a child I wanted to be like my mother. Not necessarily an actress - I never dreamed I'd have the courage. But an active, volatile woman like she was.
Isabella Rossellini
#40. I became an actress way into my 30s because I thought that I had to find my own way, and that's why I worked so much in modelling, until I realised that the differences between acting and modelling weren't that great. I always say that modelling is a little bit like being a silent actress.
Isabella Rossellini
#41. When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family always had a pig, and we would kill it at Christmas and eat it for three or four months afterwards.
Isabella Rossellini
#42. I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It's the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the ocean.
Isabella Rossellini
#44. When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much and I could have risked failing. It would have felt much harder.
Isabella Rossellini
#45. I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.
Isabella Rossellini
#46. You have touched my soul, and I have seen your heart, and I know I am forever changed by the essence of you.
Jenna Roads
#47. I live in the country. I'm a bird-watcher, an oyster-raiser. You know, I'll do anything that - raise dogs for the blind as a volunteer.
Isabella Rossellini
#48. Sometimes I was resentful. Must she care about everyone in this world? Look at me! Praise me! I want to be the most important! Why do you care so much about so many things? But now, so many years later, I say: Thank you, Mother, for being what you were, for trying to develop me in every way. Kisv
Isabella Leitner
#49. I don't believe I have been compromised. At least not past redemption. -Isabella Weston
Sara Lindsey
#50. Oh! To be beyond the pale once more, out of civilization into savagery? I abhor civilization!
Isabella L. Bird
#51. It took me a long time to be accepted as an actress, I think, because of the modeling and because of my mother.
Isabella Rossellini
#54. I looked up into his emerald eyes where I think I could spend forever and managed to breathe out, "Ditto.
Jenna Roads
#55. I still vote civilization a nuisance, society a humbug and all conventionality a crime.
Isabella L. Bird
#56. It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization.
Isabella L. Bird
#57. I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look at a photo, I detach myself and look at it as a product - not as me, Isabella.
Isabella Rossellini
#58. There are consequences with age, so you have to evolve. I've loved becoming a filmmaker. But I would love to continue modeling, and there isn't really any job for me. It's being marginalized - that's the sad part.
Isabella Rossellini
#60. I suppose that few people ever forget the first sight of a palm-tree of any species. I vividly remember seeing one for the first time at Malaga, but the coco-palm groves of the Pacific have a strangeness and witchery of their own.
Isabella Bird
#61. I have a background in theater. At the time I read 'The Loved Ones' script, I was playing Catherine the Great of Russia onstage. Straight after that, I played Stella in 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and Isabella in 'Measure for Measure.'
Robin McLeavy
#62. Don't worry about the bloodsucker,' Jacob suggested, and his tone was smug. 'He's just jealous.'
'Of course I am.' Edward's voice was velvet again, under control, a musical murmur in the darkness.
Stephenie Meyer
#63. I've never been on a date before," Isabella said to Mary as she got ready that night.
"You've been on plenty of dates," Mary said.
"No," Isabella said. "I've been out to eat with boys who were my boyfriend, but that's not dating. That's just parelle eating.
Jennifer Close
#64. I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.
Isabella L. Bird
#65. I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.
Isabella Rossellini
#67. It's as if I've stepped through a time portal into a place where acceptance is the norm, so unreal.
Jenna Roads
#68. I was born with a love of animals, the same way I was born with brown hair. When I was a little girl in Rome, I always had pets, which I adored.
Isabella Rossellini
#69. I always have parmigiano-reggiano, olive oil and pasta at home. When people get sick, they want chicken soup; I want spaghetti with parmesan cheese, olive oil and a bit of lemon zest. It makes me feel better every time.
Isabella Rossellini
#70. I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my favorite.
Michael Isabella
#71. Breakups are tough," Isabella said. "But you got through it!" "I'm glad you're over him," Shannon said. "Now you need to go find another asshole to fuck with your head.
Jennifer Close
#73. I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living, in regions unaffected by European contact.
Isabella Bird
#74. Many years in New York has made me urban, and I won't eat my chicken because I met him personally!
Isabella Rossellini
#75. Oh, Isabella, what's wrong with me? I believe I'm actually jealous of . . . of myself!" "Then
Mia Marlowe
#76. [On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!
Isabella Bird
#77. I dreamt of bears so vividly that I woke with a furry death hug at my throat, but feeling quite refreshed.
Isabella L. Bird
#78. However, I'm here to tell you dear reader that there is always more than meets the eye.
Isabella Kruger
#79. In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it.
Isabella Rossellini
#80. I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.
Isabella Rossellini
#82. Why do I spend every moment with you thinking about why I did not go in the opposite direction when I had the chance?
Isabella Carter
#83. He patted my shoulder. "What's up with you? All of a sudden, you're bucking the system."
"i got drunk and had an epiphany."
"Shit, this is serious!" He gasped. "Last time that happened to me, i woke up gay.
J.C. Isabella
#84. I live in New York, and the only live animals you see are cockroaches, rats and pigeons, which I admire immensely. When I see an animal that thrives in the garbage, I feel relief; in our urban environment, other animals are dying out.
Isabella Rossellini
#85. I think I was always interested in animals. If a man likes a woman, you know, he might discuss business, but there's a part of his brain that is looking at the girl coming in and checking the girls. I do the same with animals.
Isabella Rossellini
#86. I wanted to make a film about my dad, a sort of love letter, and explain what I understood of his cinema, which was so utopian. I also wanted to give the sense of his cinema, because they have never been very big box-office, but they were very influential.
Isabella Rossellini
#87. I plan on doing nothing but give you the greatest pleasure you've ever had. I want to take you to a place of pure sexual satisfaction, Isabella. Once I take you to the edge of insanity, you will come harder than you ever have.
Mia Villano
#88. If I didn't, would you be happy with someone like me? If we met under different circumstances, would you?
Kristine Pierce
#89. Fashion is a vampiric thing; it's the Hoover on your brain. That's why I wear the hats, to keep everyone away from me. They say, 'Oh, can I kiss you?' I say, 'No, thank you very much.'
Isabella Blow
#91. On the whole, I find that it is best to adopt as far as possible the travelling equipments of the country in which one travels. The muleteers and servants understand them better, and if anything goes wrong or wears out, it can be repaired or replaced.
Isabella Bird
#92. Being strong was hard work, and I was ready to let someone else be strong for a little bit. Not forever, but for a little while.
J.C. Isabella
#93. No," Isabella said. "I've been out to eat with boys who were my boyfriend, but that's not dating. That's just parallel eating.
Jennifer Close
#94. Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved animals and been fascinated with them.
Isabella Rossellini
#95. I started modeling at 28. I'm 5-feet-7 1/2, and I never went on a diet. I followed what my doctor told me: 'It's good to have a little bit of fat. Your weight is fine. Don't go any lighter.'
Isabella Rossellini
#96. Years ago I decided that the greatest need in our Country was Art ... We were a very young country and had very few opportunities of seeing beautiful things, works of art ... So, I determined to make it my life's work if I could.
Isabella Stewart Gardner
#97. Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.
Isabella Rossellini
#98. I am the daughter of Mr. Neo-realism: I should gravitate towards narrative simply told, character, the truth. And I do love those movies.
Isabella Rossellini
#99. I'd like this to become my principal activity: to make films about animals. Of course it's always interesting to model, but it depends who you are working with. I will continue to make acting, too, but I'm old - I'm getting tired of it.
Isabella Rossellini
#100. I never say to him, 'Let this or that enemy alone, because it would be ungenerous or cruel to harm them'; I say, 'Let them alone, because I should hate them to be wronged': and he'd crush you like a sparrow's egg, Isabella , if he found you a troublesome charge.
Emily Bronte
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