Quote Rafael Benitez

Rafa 'Balls in the air' Benitez, on whether Steven Gerrard is fit to play the 2008 Champion's League semi-final game:

"I will come up and tap him on the left shoulder and if he turns to face me without any pain, we will know he can play."

Quote Isabella Rossellini

"It reminds me: I go to yoga classes in a church and one day there was a poster asking 'What do you want from the church?' I wrote down: 'More yoga lessons.' Then I found my reading glasses and went back to see what other people had written and I saw things like 'Redemption'."

- Isabella Rossellini, a Telegraph interview, 18th April 2008.

Quote Mamontov

The above portrait of the arts patron, railway director and merchant, Savva Mamontov, is by Ilya Repin (1880).


The above statue of Savva Mamontov is at Sergei Posad Station Square, Moscow, TRS.


"The eyes of the people must be trained to see beauty everywhere, in streets and railway stations" - Savva Ivanovich Mamontov (15 October 1841 - 6 April 1918).

Quote Carla Bruni

"Even when I was having my hair and makeup done backstage at a fashion show, I would sneak in a copy of Dostoevsky and read it inside a copy of Elle or Vogue."

From the Independent, 2007.