Quotes by Italian authors

"In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long"

"You can't pretend that everybody likes Versace. It would be boring. It's better to create a reaction than to create no reaction. That's dangerous"

"It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it"

"In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame"

"I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion"

"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas"

"Sometimes big designers are afraid that people won't recognize them if they change that much"

"Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine"

"I like perfume and flowers"

"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person"

"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights"

"The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars"

"Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover"

"Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning"

"Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour"

"I'm not a movie star. I'm just an actress"

"A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment"

"My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity"

"I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie"

"In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing"

"I don't like my physique at all"

"Gianni created the whole thing. I came later and helped him"

"The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves"

"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows"

"Never give advice in a crowd"

"Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her"

"We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice"

"Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help"

"Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see"

"Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?"