There’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
SOPHIA LORENThere’s no pleasure in working if you don’t do the things you want to do.
SOPHIA LORENIf you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.
SOPHIA LORENThere is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
SOPHIA LORENIf you don’t have the roots somewhere, it’s very difficult for people to work with you. Because you are a different person from them. They don’t know you, really. They don’t know how you feel.
SOPHIA LORENA woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
SOPHIA LORENCooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets — ‘piccoli segreti’ — that are simmering on the burners.
SOPHIA LORENI’m very susceptible to sex appeal.
SOPHIA LORENHate is unfulfilled love.
SOPHIA LORENYou must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
SOPHIA LORENSex is like washing your face – just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
SOPHIA LORENMistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
SOPHIA LORENBeing beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.
SOPHIA LORENI don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.
SOPHIA LORENPhysical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
SOPHIA LORENWhen I’m walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner, there is something wonderful waiting for me. That’s my attitude.
SOPHIA LORENThere is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.
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