"As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world."

-- Ali Smith

#Stars Quotes #Rome Quotes #Names Quotes

“Never let anyone try and make you into something that you're not. Remember what it is that you want, and always stay strong in that.”
“You cannot keep bumping your head against reality and saying it is not there.”
“Weâ€™re grateful when all is well, but can we say the same on disastrous days?”
“You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.”
“When I go outside of L.A., no matter where it is, really anywhere I go, people will be stopping me or taking pictures or whatever it is. And it's great. It's amazing. I'm just lucky.”
“I don't really agree that most academics frown when they hear Wikipedia. Most academics I find quite passionate about the concept of Wikipedia and like it quite a bit. [...] The number of academics who really really don't like Wikipedia is really quite small and we find that they get reported on in the media far out of proportion to the amount they actually exist.”
“Cyclists live with pain. If you can't handle it you will win nothing”
“To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of thine own imagination instead of God.”

Source : William Tyndale, John Frith (1831). “The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith”, p.317

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