Isabella Rossellini Quotes

I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.

God created animals. And they’re loving; they’re beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I don’t find my interest in animals weird or strange at all.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

It's true that I tend to daydream. I'm the same person in business as I am in music: I can be distracted and absentminded. It's my style.

I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved animals and been fascinated with them.

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time.

I'm such a weirdo. I'm animal-mad, so my ideal date would probably be something involving going to see animals.

I loved anything to do with animals from a very early age.

Man is a recording animal.

Man is a gaming animal.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

I love raccoons. I had a raccoon figurine collection as a kid, and I now have two movies with 'Ranger Rick' jokes in them. I love 'em. They come in my back yard all the time, and we just stare at each other like a couple of idiots.

People always say that, like, you're a dog person or a cat person. I just love animals. I'm not a dog person or a cat person.

I love literally every animal.

I always wanted to write a raccoon story. I don't know why. It's not like I want to own a raccoon or anything like that. I'm just fascinated by them.

I definitely people-watch. I often see photos of myself with my children: I'm always in the background with my mouth wide open, looking somewhere else.

Most relationships probably start with people going, 'Meh, it's probably best not to be embarking in this relationship.' We do it, though, because our brains are wired to make babies or whatever.

I've never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I'd marry her.