Isabella Rossellini quote: "I would love to be a field biologist. I would love to do what Jane Goodall did, just totally immerse myself in the life of one specific species for years and study every aspect of its behavior until little by little, all of these patterns become clear. That would be great, but I don't know if I have it left in me."

True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

I wanted to make a film about my dad, a sort of love letter, and explain what I understood of his ci...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only commen...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to b...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

I was born with a love of animals, the same way I was born with brown hair. When I was a little girl...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

I don't look at 'Vogue' to ask what I'm going to wear. Because it's something on...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida ...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for som...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

I always say that in my career as an actress, I've always worked with people like David Lynch or...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

I live in New York, and the only live animals you see are cockroaches, rats and pigeons, which I adm...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

Maybe there's some kind of modeling that can be tedious, like catalogue modeling, but there'...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a ...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

I live my everyday life as a person, and I react to my photos from a certain distance. When I look a...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she f...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

The red carpet has become like a parallel business. The next day, there are TV programmes, and magaz...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

In interviews, the first question I get in America is always: 'What do you do to stay young?'...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

I was always interested in animals, but when I was little, animal behavior was still a new science. ...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

I always have parmigiano-reggiano, olive oil and pasta at home. When people get sick, they want chic...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be v...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

Mammals are very close to us, but bugs are strange. They're more mysterious and exotic.
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

My perfume, Manifesto, was based on the scent of basil.
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through man...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream ...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

Once I realised that my job as a model was to emote in front of the camera, I thought, 'Well now...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

Market research shows that older women like seeing older women in ads, and that younger women do, to...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

Most people divorce because one in the couple falls in love with someone else: it's a common cau...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

When I was young, it was difficult to imagine entering a world where my parents succeeded so much an...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

By the time I was successful with covers of 'Vogue' and 'Harper's Bazaar' and &#...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot ...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

I'd love to meet Darwin. He caused such controversy over whether God created the earth in six da...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because gener...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

If you look at most beauty advertisements, you would think that makeup is only for beautiful women i...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

They were hurt. To be ridiculed in the newspapers. My father was such an intellectual and moral pers...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

[My Dad is 100 Years Old also touches on a controversy impossible to understand in today's moral cli...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

I forgot to say, 'Mama, Ingrid Bergman,' ... The one time that I needed it, they don't get it.
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

If you're sad and you like beer, I'm your lady, ... The Saddest Music in the World.
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

disappeared or haven't been restored or rights haven't cleared.
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

I like her mixture of morbid frankness and girlish playfulness. It's why we get along. It's not yin ...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only commen...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

The secret of using makeup for fashion is to have fun with it. When people see that you are playful,...
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI

It's crazy right?? To love some one whos hurt you. But it's crazier to think that someone who hurt y...
ISABELLA

Girls look at me up and down and have nothing to say. But its funny how the words come out when i wa...
ISABELLA

Make a bich wanna hate and a boy wanna stare.
ISABELLA

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism.
ROBERTO ROSSELLINI

Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed
ROBERTO ROSSELLINI

In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many s...
ISABELLA BIRD

Can anything be more grotesque and barbarous than our 'florists' bouquets,' a series of ...
ISABELLA BIRD

An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laugh...
ISABELLA BIRD

Those learned in the law, when they do give advice without the usual fee, and in the confidence of f...
ISABELLA BEETON

The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a ca...
ISABELLA BIRD

The situation of Leh is a grand one, the great Kailas range, with its glaciers and snowfields, risin...
ISABELLA BIRD

The word 'aloha,' in foreign use, has taken the place of every English equivalent. It is a g...
ISABELLA BIRD

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in th...
ISABELLA BIRD

Other lands may have their charms, and the sunny skies of other climes may be regretted, but it is w...
ISABELLA BIRD

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a ...
ISABELLA BIRD

Bugs are a great pest in Colorado. They come out of the earth, infest the wooden walls, and cannot b...
ISABELLA BIRD

The Sandwich Islands are not the same as Otaheite nor as the Fijis, from which they are distant abou...
ISABELLA BIRD

Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, an...
ISABELLA BIRD

One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood....
ISABELLA BIRD

The Malays can hardly be said to have an indigenous literature, for it is almost entirely derived fr...
ISABELLA BIRD

Only the long melancholy call to prayer, or the wail of women over the dead, or the barking of dogs,...
ISABELLA BIRD

Baghdad is altogether built of chrome-yellow kiln-dried bricks.
ISABELLA BIRD

The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level ...
ISABELLA BIRD

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in the...
ISABELLA BIRD

Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is p...
ISABELLA BIRD

I was heartily sorry to leave Leh, with its dazzling skies and abounding colour and movement, its st...
ISABELLA BIRD

If one's memories of Baghdad women were only of those to be seen in the streets, they would be o...
ISABELLA BIRD

It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of do...
ISABELLA BIRD

Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and th...
ISABELLA BIRD

Four hours after leaving Kornah, we passed the reputed tomb of Ezra the prophet. At a distance and i...
ISABELLA BIRD

The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them...
ISABELLA BIRD

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because ...
ISABELLA BIRD

I'm a walking billboard. That's my pleasure.
ISABELLA BLOW

Grandeur and sublimity, not softness, are the features of Estes Park. The glades which begin so soft...
ISABELLA BIRD

The kimono, haori, and girdle, and even the long hanging sleeves, have only parallel seams, and thes...
ISABELLA BIRD

Leh has few of what Europeans regard as travelling necessaries. The brick tea which I purchased from...
ISABELLA BIRD

The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.
ISABELLA BIRD

I didn't expect it (the comeback). But as long as you don't get 18 outs you don't win the game.
VERNON ISABELLA

The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, ...
ISABELLA BIRD

The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the ai...
ISABELLA BIRD

The Japanese look most diminutive in European dress. Each garment is a misfit and exaggerates the mi...
ISABELLA BIRD

There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland spe...
ISABELLA BIRD

The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mou...
ISABELLA BIRD

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncr...
ISABELLA BIRD

My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among ...
ISABELLA BIRD

I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English perso...
ISABELLA BIRD

My first experiences of Colorado travel have been rather severe. At Greeley, I got a small upstairs ...
ISABELLA BIRD

Reaching out and value other lives is the only way to be trusted and never forgotten.
ISABELLA KOLDRAS

Yokohama does not improve on further acquaintance. It has a dead-alive look. It has irregularity wit...
ISABELLA BIRD

The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable ...
ISABELLA BIRD

The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes...
ISABELLA BIRD

Fashion is a vampiric thing; it's the Hoover on your brain. That's why I wear the hats, to k...
ISABELLA BLOW

You're not well enough for the story they've planned.
ISABELLA BLOW

She had an amazing figure and her clothes were very severe and elegant.
ISABELLA BLOW

[Isabella Blow is heading for the MAC hall of fame. The Tatler Fashion Director has helped create a ...
ISABELLA BLOW

As the manager sits before a performance, as the critics wait like hungry dogs to rip apart the perf...
ISABELLA KRUGER

was just making [Beatrice] look young and sexy, using the colours and getting the advertisers in. Ot...
ISABELLA BLOW

To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must see...
ISABELLA BIRD

It is far kinder and smarter to show someone a better path in life than to darkly follow down their'...
ISABELLA PORETSIS

I smoke so many cigarettes, there's no way I could have a glossy lipstick.
ISABELLA BLOW

I don't use a hat as a prop. I use it as a part of me.
ISABELLA BLOW

At the close of my visit, my Hawaiian friends urged me strongly to publish my impressions and experi...
ISABELLA BIRD

The plantations in the Hilo district enjoy special advantages, for by turning some of the innumerabl...
ISABELLA BIRD

Cock-fighting, which has attained to the dignity of a literature of its own, is the popular Malay sp...
ISABELLA BIRD

Slavery, though under modifications which rendered it little more than the apprenticeship of our day...
ISABELLA BIRD

Here’s what happens when a single mom meets New York City’s hottest fireman…

“The...
ISABELLA JOHNS

I suppose that few people ever forget the first sight of a palm-tree of any species. I vividly remem...
ISABELLA BIRD

One of the most marvelous features of Canton is the city of house boats, floating and stationary, in...
ISABELLA BIRD

No house was so poor as not to have its 'family altar,' its shelf of wooden gods, and table ...
ISABELLA BIRD

The Tigris in parts is wonderfully tortuous, and at one great bend, 'The Devil's Elbow,'...
ISABELLA BIRD

It is a shame that most people jump to simple condemnation before considering working towards salvat...
ISABELLA PORETSIS

Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes,...
ISABELLA BEETON

As it turns out if you can measure changes in distance between the two satellites, you can get infor...
ISABELLA VELICOGNA

The ice sheet is losing mass at a significant rate. It's a good indicator of how the climate is chan...
ISABELLA VELICOGNA

It is the first time we can say that if you look at the entire ice sheet, it is losing mass.
ISABELLA VELICOGNA

Because ice sheets are a large source of uncertainties in projections of sea level change, this repr...
ISABELLA VELICOGNA

Antarctica is Earth's largest reservoir of fresh water.
ISABELLA VELICOGNA

The changes we are seeing are probably a good indicator of the changing climatic conditions there.
ISABELLA VELICOGNA

But you know now what's going on which I think is pretty good.
ISABELLA VELICOGNA

The overall balance of the Antarctic ice is dependent on regional changes in the interior and those ...
ISABELLA VELICOGNA

This is the first study to indicate the total mass balance of the Antarctic ice sheet is in signific...
ISABELLA VELICOGNA

We can now see Antarctica melting. We have a number for the ice sheet. It's a big step toward unders...
ISABELLA VELICOGNA

I tried my best, and that's a fast time for me, so I am happy about it.
ISABELLA OCHICHI

I wanted to make a move at that turn, but I just didn't do it. I made a mistake, and she opened it u...
ISABELLA OCHICHI

It was very difficult to adapt to these difficult weather conditions. I was supposed to arrive in Ve...
ISABELLA OCHICHI

He had very well manicured nails, and his fingertips and hands were indicative of somebody who didn'...
ISABELLA MULHALL

We laugh and joke and kid around. We have a good time.
ISABELLA KYMER

A lot of them can't talk to their parents.
ISABELLA KYMER

Tell him to get lost! It's been eight years and they're not even engaged?
ISABELLA KYMER

I was told ten hours a week, but that's an overestimate. But you do need to go at least once a week,...
ISABELLA HODGE

E se tu vuoi diventare un fiore, allora io voglio diventare il cielo, così se hai sete chiamo la pi...
ISABELLA SANTACROCE

Il corpo è la casa del tempo, dentro di lui muoiono gli anni, e con loro noi stessi. Amavo davvero ...
ISABELLA SANTACROCE

Gridavamo siamo angeli, possiamo lanciarci senza distruggerci, abbiamo le ali nei muscoli, siamo spa...
ISABELLA SANTACROCE

Young designers don't grow on trees.
ISABELLA BLOW

If I'm going to be working out two hours a day, I may as well have a goal... and I'm pretty ...
ELETTRA ROSSELLINI WIEDEMANN

A place for everything, and everything in its place.
ISABELLA MARY BEETON

A place for everything and everything in its place.
ISABELLA MARY BEETON

No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What pa...
ISABELLA MACDONALD ALDEN

[S]isters could do a great deal for their brothers, if they would.
ISABELLA MACDONALD ALDEN

The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience
ISABELLA I OF SPAIN

...definitely believe that, there's got to be a spark to a place...to make it feel like a home...
ISABELLA KOLDRAS, POEM MY HOME.

....there are moments in life worth living for. Spring Walking is one of them; my mind frozen in the...
ISABELLA KOLDRAS, POEM SPRING WALKING IN VAUCLUSE HIL.

I was always the last to leave. That was my great skill.
TARA ISABELLA BURTON, "HERE IN AVALON" SONGS OF MY SELFIE

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