Italian Descent Living

Famous quotes containing the words italian, descent and/or living:

    If the study of his images
    Is the study of man, this image of Saturday,
    This Italian symbol, this Southern landscape, is like
    A waking, as in images we awake,
    Within the very object that we seek,
    Participants of its being.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    My life has been one long descent into respectability.
    Mandy Rice-Davies (b. 1944)

    The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)