Lungarno Quotes

#1. We walked for a long time. We kissed, we embraced on the Lungarno, I asked him, half serious, half joking, if he wanted to sneak into my room. He shook his head, he went back to kissing me passionately. There were entire libraries separating him and Antonio, but they were similar.

Elena Ferrante

#2. Well, I like the rain before it falls.

Jonathan Coe

#3. In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

Phil Crosby

#4. If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.

Dani Shapiro

#5. The sergeant frowned. "Really, sir? And who might they be? Is there a gang of militant atheists at work in the district, that I know nothing about? Or a guerrilla unit of disaffected campanologists, perhaps?

Paul Bassett Davies

#6. At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.

Orson Pratt

#7. [Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#8. As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.

Julia Child

#9. I can say little more than I have studied, and that question's out of my part.

William Shakespeare

#10. Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

Ronald Syme

#11. Just as important as having a list of priorities is every once in a while starting from the bottom.

Robert Breault