Top 100 Isabella's Quotes

#1. A writer writes always! (Larry Donner, Throw Mama from the Train)

Trish Isabella Hopkins

Isabella's Quotes #14320
#2. Mauna Kea from Hilo has a shapely aspect, for its top is broken into peaks, said to be the craters of extinct volcanoes, but my eyes seek the dome-like curve of Mauna Loa with far deeper interest, for it is as yet an unfinished mountain.

Isabella Bird

Isabella's Quotes #26956
#3. [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

Isabella's Quotes #35398
#4. The mountains were breathtakingly beautiful. It was so serene and tranquil. The rising sun with other balloons around it painted the sky with a silhouette that was major eye candy.

Jenna Roads

Isabella's Quotes #43541
#5. Pirate queens never trip. -Isabella Weston

Sara Lindsey

Isabella's Quotes #44417
#6. There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #44807
#7. Adoption has the dimension of connection - not only to your own tribe, but beyond, widening the scope of what constitutes love, ties and family. It is a larger embrace. By adopting, we stretch past our immediate circles and, by reaching out, find an unexpected sense of belonging with others.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #47594
#8. When you lose everything, you have nothing left to live for," said Hunter.
"If you have nothing left to live for, why are you still fighting?

Isabella Modra

Isabella's Quotes #49310
#9. Oh, Isabella, what's wrong with me? I believe I'm actually jealous of . . . of myself!" "Then

Mia Marlowe

Isabella's Quotes #51081
#10. Many years in New York has made me urban, and I won't eat my chicken because I met him personally!

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #55245
#11. Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #66503
#12. The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.

Isabella Bird

Isabella's Quotes #69765
#13. Sometimes when you think you need space to sort out how you feel, you really don't. You're just scared, so you ran. Running is never the answer. Make yourself stay and work through it.

J.C. Isabella

Isabella's Quotes #70727
#14. The scarcely audible whisper of soft airs through the trees morning and evening, rain drops falling gently, and the murmur of drowsy surges far below, alone break the stillness.

Isabella L. Bird

Isabella's Quotes #83336
#15. I lived among the Japanese, and saw their mode of living, in regions unaffected by European contact.

Isabella Bird

Isabella's Quotes #84168
#16. It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #116001
#17. 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

Isabella's Quotes #126321
#18. When there is nothing else, there is always faith to cling onto.

Isabella Modra

Isabella's Quotes #128376
#19. 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

Isabella's Quotes #131715
#20. Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc.

Isabella Beeton

Isabella's Quotes #137316
#21. 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

Isabella's Quotes #139281
#22. 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

Isabella's Quotes #154184
#23. According to the book Celebrate Today, June 18th is National Splurge Day. Besides being the birthday of Paul McCartney and Isabella Rossellini, it's also mine. Go ahead; celebrate my birthday and don't worry about the cost!

Ernie J Zelinski

Isabella's Quotes #165121
#24. Isn't it strange that all life can pretty much end, but the universe goes on as it is? No one else exists, but the moon keeps shining and the stars keep falling.

Isabella Olivia Ellis

Isabella's Quotes #166775
#25. It's as if I've stepped through a time portal into a place where acceptance is the norm, so unreal.

Jenna Roads

Isabella's Quotes #167888
#26. Bugs are a great pest in Colorado. They come out of the earth, infest the wooden walls, and cannot be got rid of by any amount of cleanliness. Many careful housewives take their beds to pieces every week and put carbolic acid on them.

Isabella Bird

Isabella's Quotes #167998
#27. It is what it is, Holly. I've got to go.

Isabella White

Isabella's Quotes #188653
#28. If you look at most beauty advertisements, you would think that makeup is only for beautiful women in their early twenties.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #202841
#29. Jilly Beaton's a vicious cow. Inspectors love her, but she's a cow when they've gone."
"Back home in Argentina," sniffed Isabella, "cows are very important, but they know their place.

Gabriella Poole

Isabella's Quotes #210170
#30. The instant Isabella Cortez left the safety of the FBI building, goose bumps skittered across her skin and her senses went on high alert.

Elizabeth Heiter

Isabella's Quotes #215924
#31. Only the long melancholy call to prayer, or the wail of women over the dead, or the barking of dogs, breaks the silence which at sunset falls as a pall over Baghdad.

Isabella Bird

Isabella's Quotes #217920
#32. To be an icon is a big job - it's beyond acting. And sometimes it pays, and sometimes it doesn't.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #226015
#33. I like to extend myself as an actress and David really helped me.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #232211
#34. It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #235215
#35. I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

Isabella L. Bird

Isabella's Quotes #239277
#36. Before a big red carpet event, you can't find a pair of Spanx in a 200 mile radius around Los Angeles.

Isabella James

Isabella's Quotes #241490
#37. 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

Isabella's Quotes #249573
#38. 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

Isabella's Quotes #265987
#39. 'Mallory,' he used to say, 'When a woman who can break you in half tells you that you're hers, you nod and agree.'

Isabella Carter

Isabella's Quotes #268736
#40. If one's memories of Baghdad women were only of those to be seen in the streets, they would be of leathery, wrinkled faces, prematurely old, figures which have lost all shape, and henna-stained hands crinkled and deformed by toil.

Isabella Bird

Isabella's Quotes #270943
#41. 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

Isabella's Quotes #285742
#42. Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips. Unless President Hayes is a strong man, they will soon come to boast that their government is composed of the 'biggest scoundrels' in the world.

Isabella Bird

Isabella's Quotes #293068
#43. 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

Isabella's Quotes #302827
#44. The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.

Isabella Bird

Isabella's Quotes #304817
#45. When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #307156
#46. 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

Isabella's Quotes #322829
#47. 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

Isabella's Quotes #324391
#48. Yet, after all, they were not bad souls; and though he failed so grotesquely, he did his incompetent best.

Isabella L. Bird

Isabella's Quotes #327459
#49. It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization.

Isabella L. Bird

Isabella's Quotes #338776
#50. I still vote civilization a nuisance, society a humbug and all conventionality a crime.

Isabella L. Bird

Isabella's Quotes #342097
#51. P.O. Box Love is a wonderfully engrossing and romantic novel that takes the reader from Milan to New York and back again through the letters Federico and Emma mail to each other. Paola Calvetti's book will captivate your mind and steal your heart."

Isabella Rossellini

Paola Calvetti

Isabella's Quotes #372653
#52. 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

Isabella's Quotes #372849
#53. 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

Isabella's Quotes #374315
#54. Music is always key to me, whether it's 'Miami Vice' or not 'Miami Vice.' It's dictated by the story, about what Crockett and Tubbs and Isabella and Trudy are doing.

Michael Mann

Isabella's Quotes #374924
#55. Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #393324
#56. 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

Isabella's Quotes #408484
#57. 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

Isabella's Quotes #421123
#58. The secret of using makeup for fashion is to have fun with it. When people see that you are playful, that's attractive. Sometimes people apply makeup because they have bags under their eyes or because they don't feel good, and that just reads 'insecure.'

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #423387
#59. 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

Isabella's Quotes #429088
#60. The first time I met death, it was at a ball and we danced a waltz.

Charlotte Featherstone

Isabella's Quotes #480296
#61. People don't read as much anymore. That's why they're so stupid.

Isabella Fontaine

Isabella's Quotes #506455
#62. Isabella, you miss the essence of a boy. That's all.

Jennifer Close

Isabella's Quotes #527086
#63. 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

Isabella's Quotes #534101
#64. 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

Isabella's Quotes #538860
#65. I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #587455
#66. 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

Isabella's Quotes #692724
#67. 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

Isabella's Quotes #698239
#68. Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Isabella's Quotes #735952
#69. It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #737557
#70. Do not lower the standard or cater to the worldly laxness of the average Christian by making the way in easy. Make sure that everyone who joins fully understands his duties and obligations and is willing, in Christ's strength, to undertake them.

Isabella MacDonald Alden

Isabella's Quotes #778134
#71. Isabella pauses as something in her body holds itself erect, then arches towards the voice of Oskar's little girl, like a flower tilting under the weight of its hoard of pollen.

Glenn Haybittle

Isabella's Quotes #778835
#72. P.S. Please don't call me Isabella. That name belongs to a really pretty girl who never wrecks her clothes and who never gets dirt under her fingernails. That's definitely not me. My name is Izzy.

Jenny Lundquist

Isabella's Quotes #787424
#73. 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

Isabella's Quotes #887905
#74. 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

Isabella's Quotes #920448
#75. If you see a person who's insecure and covers it up, it can be quite a problem. But the person who is insecure and shows you is quite appealing. They give you just the courage to drop your defenses.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #922709
#76. 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

Isabella's Quotes #949908
#77. Nat realised they had a lot of talking to do, but she did question Isabella's timing. In her experience, matters of the heart should not be discussed when one party had a silicone cock strapped to their waist while the other's mouth went dry at the thought of it entering her.

Harper Bliss

Isabella's Quotes #963476
#78. 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

Isabella's Quotes #1002594
#79. 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

Isabella's Quotes #1012991
#80. Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home, and, above all, of the quietness and purity of English domestic life.

Isabella Bird

Isabella's Quotes #1054737
#81. [S]isters could do a great deal for their brothers, if they would.

Isabella MacDonald Alden

Isabella's Quotes #1107131
#82. Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there's a kind of modeling, with runways or working with Richard Avedon, that's not very far from acting. Besides the fact that you don't have a partner to react to, the body language is the same.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #1167313
#83. There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #1207664
#84. 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

Isabella's Quotes #1211308
#85. My father's films are often very slow for the modern audiences, which are used to a lot of editing. It's the audience that watches the film instead of the director dictating the reaction he wants from you.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #1275912
#86. I'm a walking billboard. That's my pleasure.

Isabella Blow

Isabella's Quotes #1302929
#87. 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

Isabella's Quotes #1340424
#88. Tis not your time, my love," he whispered. "You will not die tonight."
"Never," I said to him, "for I have been blessed by Death's Eternal Kiss.

Charlotte Featherstone

Isabella's Quotes #1388372
#89. Most people divorce because one in the couple falls in love with someone else: it's a common cause of divorce. I still think that it's tinted - this is my opinion - with a veil of racism and American puritanism.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #1397721
#90. My cat Isabella, she doesn't get along with anyone else. She's kind of like me: like, very anti-social and fierce. So we speak to each other on a spiritual level, and we cuddle every night. So it's pretty serious.

Jacob Whitesides

Isabella's Quotes #1412698
#91. It is excellent / To have a giant's strenght / But it is tyrannous / To use it like a giant
(Isabella)

William Shakespeare

Isabella's Quotes #1426137
#92. The Tigris in parts is wonderfully tortuous, and at one great bend, 'The Devil's Elbow,' a man on foot can walk the distance in less than an hour which takes the steamer four hours to accomplish.

Isabella Bird

Isabella's Quotes #1458951
#93. I never really think about what I have to do to stick to my image. I just follow what I like to do. Sometimes it's glamorous, sometimes it's not.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #1473441
#94. Desire is the strongest human emotion - desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that's what drives people to buy and want things.

Isabella Blow

Isabella's Quotes #1584769
#95. Things Isabella Wouldn't Care About:
- Titanic sinking again.
- Metror striking Earth and landing directly on top of world's most innocent panda.
- Titanic sinking again and this time the entire crew is puppies.

Jim Benton

Isabella's Quotes #1647138
#96. An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water.

Isabella Bird

Isabella's Quotes #1678695
#97. In traveling, there is nothing like dissecting people's statements, which are usually colored by their estimate of the powers or likings of the person spoken to, making all reasonable inquiries, and then pertinaciously but quietly carrying out one's own plans.

Isabella L. Bird

Isabella's Quotes #1746982
#98. Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style of a veteran journalist.

Debby Applegate

Isabella's Quotes #1779289
#99. I didn't think I was going to be an actress. Everybody in my family was in films, and they succeeded so much, I thought, 'It's better for me to do something else,' and they agreed.

Isabella Rossellini

Isabella's Quotes #1867620
#100. Am I to die?" I asked, and he stopped, raised our joined hands to his mouth and gently kissed my knuckles.
"You are, my love, and in your sleep, you will become Death's bride.

Charlotte Featherstone

Isabella's Quotes #1877444

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