Florentines Quotes

#1. Guilleaume left La Praline with a small bag of florentines in his pocket; before he had turned the corner of avenue des Francs Bourgeois I saw him stoop to offer one to the dog. A pat, a bark, a wagging of the short stubby tail. As I said, some people never have to think about giving.

Joanne Harris

#2. Like Michelangelo and Cellini, Florentines of every station are absorbed in acquiring real estate: a little apartment that can be rented to foreigners; a farm that will supply the owner with oil, wine, fruit, and flowers for the house.

Mary McCarthy

#3. Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed in a text and the text can't do that work by itself and you as a poet can only do your best.

Edward Hirsch

#4. The problem with driving around Iceland is that you're basically confronted by a new soul-enriching, breath-taking, life-affirming natural sight every five goddamn minutes. It's totally exhausting.

Stephen Markley

#5. Hope is a black beetle. Stamp on it hard as you liked, it still scuttled on

Reginald Hill

#6. Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

#7. Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts
but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message.

Joseph Campbell

#8. Brilliant ... Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark my words, your marriage will change after reading this book.

Debby Applegate

#9. God brings his grace into the heart by conquest.

William Gurnall

#10. I use products from my dermatologist but the best things you can do for your skin, are not smoke always use sunscreen and drink a lot of water.

Sela Ward

#11. I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.

Dana Torres