Quotes About Turin

#1. I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.

Lapo Elkann

#2. At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

#3. A year ago I was in the city of Genoa, and I found that it returned seven representatives to the Sardinian Parliament at Turin, seven being its fair share, calculated according to the population of the various cities and districts of the Sardinian kingdom.

John Bright

#4. Dune by Christian Dior. Luca Turin, who wrote a fragrance guide, calls it 'the bleakest beauty in all perfumery.' Here,

Denise Hamilton

#5. We could try the Turin test," said Lobsang.
"Oh, machines have been able to pass the Turing test for years."
"No, the Turin test. We both pray for an hour, and see if God can tell the difference.

Stephen Baxter

#6. Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial centers, you would have had a much more active political constituency. Venice essentially lived for itself.

Joseph Kanon

#7. I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.

Lapo Elkann

#8. Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

Italo Calvino

#9. Whether we're looking at the burial box of St. James, a fragment of the True Cross, the Shroud of Turin, or some bones supposedly belonging to John the Baptist, there is always excitement and distrust, faith and doubt.

Jay Parini

#10. This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. I have loads of issues with the way classical music is presented. It has been too reverential, too 'high art' - if you're not in the club, they're not going to let you join. It's like The Turin Shroud: don't touch it because it might fall apart.

Charles Hazlewood

#12. All kings are blind. The good ones see this and use more than their eyes to lead.

J.R. Ward

#13. Nobody ever died from wearing Mitsouko, but lots of babies were born as a result of it.

Luca Turin

#14. Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.

Cynthia Kenyon

#15. Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

Jamie L. Harding

#16. The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.

Brandon Sanderson

#17. The Himalayas rose layer upon layer until those gleaming peaks proved a man to be so small that it made sense to give it all up, empty it all out.

Kiran Desai

#18. There is no line of demarcation between the amateurs and the pros; everyone is using the same tactics and playing in the same arenas. The only thing that separates them is radio, but the artist doesn't control who goes to radio and who doesn't.

Lupe Fiasco

#19. I just told my agent to forget all other projects for me. I was waiting for Audrey Hepburn. She asked for me, and I was ready. This could be the last and only opportunity I'd have to work with the great and lovely Audrey Hepburn and I was not missing it. Period.

Fred Astaire

#20. you seldom hear, at a funeral, a friend of the deceased saying, "What do you expect, she wore L'Heure Bleue,

Luca Turin

#21. It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading.
The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.

Alice Munro

#22. Every child is at some point a small Perseus, and this infatuation with the dark and the lonely is for most people an acute condition, best caught early in life like mumps, and which seldom recurs.

Luca Turin

#23. With fear and trembling we must rely upon God for guidance in the inner depths. This is the sole way to walk according to the spirit.

Watchman Nee

#24. It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.

Michel De Montaigne

#25. The first is that I firmly believe that much of the quality we call intelligence is quantitative: he who finds the correct solution to a problem has simply tried out more things that he who does not.

Luca Turin

#26. There is no doubt that a little difficulty and plenty of variety keep you young, or at any rate amused, which may be nearly the same thing. I sometimes wonder whether science will one day establish that we die of boredom.

Luca Turin

#27. Until proven innocent, I regard all "gardenias" as I do footprints of the Snowman, engines that run on vacuum energy, or good wines from Savoie.

Luca Turin

#28. Attention is love, what we must give
children, mothers, fathers, pets,
our friends, the news, the woes of others.
What we want to change we curse and then
pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can
with eyes and hands and tongue. If you
can't bless it, get ready to make it new.

Marge Piercy

#29. Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both.

V. Alexander

#30. Being a fan of someone's show and the way they still hold a family together doesn't mean I am OK with all they say.

Liam Payne