Milanese Quotes

#1. On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory.

Meriwether Lewis

#2. In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

Christian Lacroix

#3. Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

Sophia Loren

#4. Did you steal that fruit? " I asked.
"Of course. I want nothing more than to steal apples. I've also always manifested the ability to travel through time, and at night I turn into a beast and only your kiss can break the - "
"I get it. That's a no.

Roshani Chokshi

#5. Guess who surprised themselves and changed their minds.

Steve Jobs

#6. You did not fit - the mold that they shoved you into. The path you were born upon and forced to walk. You tried, and yet you did not, could not, fit. And then the path changed." A little nod. "I know - what it is to be that way.

Sarah J. Maas

#7. When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus.

Alice Dreger

#8. Why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice?

Marcus Aurelius

#9. Although I write dystopian fiction, I don't believe in dystopian fantasies.

John Twelve Hawks

#10. Born in poverty, he will take supreme power. He will bankrupt the country. Raising an army in the Milanese marches, he will drain Faenza and Florence of gold and people.

Nostradamus

#11. Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.

Gretchen Rubin

#12. Me mam, bless her soul, tol' me tha' was the worst thing ye could be to a man - convenient.

Karen Hawkins

#13. Why not get a job in West Yellow Stone selling buffalo turds? I could make clocks out of them.

Jonathan Evison

#14. Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match.

Haruki Murakami

#15. They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

Christian Lacroix

#16. But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.

Christian Lacroix

#17. Shut up, I'm thinking!
-Jayfeather (Night Whispers)

Erin Hunter

#18. What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that you have to create the world that you want to exist in as an artist.

John D'Agata