Sophia Quotes - Page 3

• I saw Sophia Loren - the Italian woman with those wonderful cheekbones - in a movie the other day. She must have had 24 face-lifts, and she looks like an alien, as if she weren't from this world at all. Her Italian wrinkles would have been a thousand times more beautiful.

  Robert Bly

  Beautiful, Italian, Wrinkles

  Source: www.utne.com

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• The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who envied his success, and the obstinate sinners, who were offended by his reproofs. When Chrysostom thundered from the pulpit of St. Sophia against the degeneracy of the Christians, his shafts were spent among the crowd, without wounding or even marking the character of any individual.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Character, Past

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.502

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• Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be -- the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today are just ironing boards.

  Rona Barrett

  Ironing Board, People, Boards

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• Sophia got up, taking one last look at the extraordinary daughter Councilor Nikita Duncan had borne.

  Nalini Singh

  Daughter, Looks, Lasts

  Nalini Singh (2010). “Bonds of Justice”, p.103, Penguin

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• Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation – Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves.

  Jane Austen

  Running, Mad, Moments

  "Love and Friendship". Story by Jane Austen, 1790.

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• It's funny about love', Sophia said. 'The more you love someone, the less he likes you back.' 'That's very true,' Grandmother observed. 'And so what do you do?' 'You go on loving,' said Sophia threateningly. 'You love harder and harder.

  Tove Jansson

  Grandmother, Goes On, Likes

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• Ms. Sophia was evil bananas.

  Lauren Kate

  Evil, Bananas

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• Certainly there are dozens of over-50 actresses who look great: Sophia Loren, Susan Sarandon, Ursula Andress, Stefanie Powers, Raquel Welch, Barbara Eden, Joanna Lumley, Linda Gray - the list is endless, and these are just the actresses! I have many friends in their 60s, 70s and 80s, not in the limelight, but who all look absolutely stunning.

  Joan Collins

  Eden, Lists, Actresses

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• Why are you in such a rush?" Sophia asked, and her grandmother answered that it was a good idea to do things before you forgot that they had to be done.

  Tove Jansson

  Grandmother, Ideas, Done

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• Sophia Loren plays peasants. I play ladies.

  Gina Lollobrigida

  Play, Peasants

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• Philosophy is in fact a quest for wisdom based in sophia; that quest for wisdom has everything to do with a love of wisdom.

  Cornel West

  Philosophy, Quests, Facts

  Source: genius.com

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• Sophia Loren, whose new baby asked her, Is all that for me? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Baby, New Baby, Dinner

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• I can't bear being seen naked. I'm not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness.

  Sophia Loren

  Naked, Tiny, Bears

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• I'm very physical. I'm extremely active, and I would love to do something a little more sexy and dangerous, a la Sophia Loren, or funny and humorous, a la Woody Allen. Getting to do things along those lines would be extremely wicked and a dream come true.

  Azita Ghanizada

  Sexy, Dream, Humorous

  Source: collider.com

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• The best thing about it is that she [Sophia Loren] is the most normal person, and I have the utmost admiration and love for her. I know that she is an icon and an absolute legend, but as a family member, the most beautiful thing is that she is really, really normal.

  Sasha Alexander

  Beautiful, Icons, Legends

  Source: collider.com

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• I liked the Hollywood stuff. But I also liked the fact that in both, you know, I guess in the, like, the auteur, the art film auteur at that time was Lina Wertmuller. So, you go see "Swept Away" or you go see a movie she did "Blood Feud" with Sophia Loren and Giancarlo Giannini. And I remember "Wifemistress" was a big movie at that time, really liked it, Laura Antonelli.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Art, Blood, Feuds

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• I've always been really drawn to that kind of sexual earthiness in European women, and Sophia Loren covered all the bases, including the whole mummy fantasy.

  Simon Baker

  Fantasy, Kind, Mummy

  "Fabulous Baker Boy". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. August 05, 2008.

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• As a kid, I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.

  Judd Nelson

  Crush, Kids, Having A Crush

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I sometimes joke that I am the first writer of historical fiction who can look out his window and point to the objects in his novels. I have a view of the entrance to the Bosporus, the old city, Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Blue, Views, Cities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Girl, Rags, Would Be

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• I was holding [my four-year-old daughter] and I said, 'Sophia, I love you more than anything in the universe.' And she turned to me and said, 'Daddy, universe or multiverse?'

  Brian Greene

  Daughter, Motivation, I Love You More

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• I never want to lie about my age. If I look around at the actresses I admire, they are all women who have not fought growing older, but embraced it and been proud of it - women like Sophia Loren or Audrey Hepburn.

  Penelope Cruz

  Lying, Age, Looks

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• Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?

  Georgette Heyer

  Eye, Men, Common Sense

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• All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been.

  Rob Thurman

  Mother, Liars, Oasis

  Rob Thurman (2009). “Deathwish”, p.34, Penguin

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• But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

  Jean Plaidy

  Deep Thought, Our Lives

  Jean Plaidy (2010). “The Captive of Kensington Palace: (Queen Victoria)”, p.76, Random House

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