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Quotes About Alessandro

The symphony had its origin not in instrumental forms like the concerto grosso, as one might have expected, but in the overture of early Italian opera. The overture, or sinfonia, as it was called, as perfected by Alessandro Scarlatti consisted of three parts: fast-slow-fast, thus presaging the three movements of the classical symphony.
~ Aaron Copland
The idea of my fashion shows is that you can't understand where you are; it's something surreal.
~ Alessandro Michele
Fra Cristoforo crossed the village, ascended a winding path, and came to a small clearing in front of the palace. The door was closed, a sign that the master was dining and did not wish to be disturbed.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
It will not have escaped you that this town simulates normality that is completely illusory: every day something happens that one might euphemistically call irritating.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Quale sarebbe questo medicamento prodigioso con cui contate di salvare il vostro selvaggio? lui amava rispondere - Le mie rose
~ Alessandro Baricco
Palermo, 25 giunio 1860.     » Si lasci liberalmente passare in Sicilia l'illustro uomo ed intimo amico mio Alessandro Dumas. Anzi saro ben riconoscente à qualunque gentilezza à lui compartira. » GARIBALDI »    
~ Alexandre Dumas
I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
~ Alessandro Nivola
You see, the attorney Giuliani said, not only is there no comfort in unanimity, but they cannot even achieve it. I could unify them. That's silly, Alessandro. If they supported you, or even listened, it would be because you flattened yourself and your ideas until everything that once was steep and noble was gone.
~ Mark Helprin
Un giorno Dio disegnò la bocca di Jun Rail. É lì che gli venne quell'idea stramba del peccato. Così la raccontava Ticktel, che sapeva di teologia, perché aveva fatto il cuoco in un seminario ...
~ Baricco Alessandro
Will not the Senorita trust me? Ramona smiled faintly through her tears. Yes, she said. I will trust you. You are Alessandro, are you not? Yes, Senorita, he answered, greatly surprised, I am Alessandro.
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
It's a hunting revolver." I slumped back. "It's for big game hunting." "Texas," Alessandro said, loading a state's worth of meaning into a single word.
~ Ilona Andrews
Have you ever tried making a mess, Catalina?" "I don't make messes, I clean them up." And now I was sounding like a renegade detective from some edgy cop drama. Alessandro shuddered. "Ooh, so hardcore.
~ Ilona Andrews
George Alessandro in New Jersey builds these great amplifiers. He was working on my Super Reverbs for years and he's kind of a vintage Marshall specialist. He built this amp and it's kind of a cross between a Dumble and a Super Reverb but a little juiced up with a little more power.
~ Derek Trucks
Oh dear, is that a skunk?" Leonora asked. "No," Alessandro gasped in horror. "No the smelly cat!" "I've told you, Alessandro darling, they aren't cats." "They look like cats. Like the big fluffy cat she's been stepped on and flattened to a big fluffy pancake cat," Alessandro argued.
~ Lynsay Sands