Quotes About Corfu

#1. Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.

Gerald Durrell

#2. The Jews supplied the contacts for international trade, sometimes in competition to the Venetians, the word Ghetto itself comes from the Venetians, it was an Island in the Venice lagoon, and they had their own part of Corfu town,

Maurice Price

#3. My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.

Gerald Durrell

#4. Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola ...

John Ratzenberger

#5. It was no half-hearted spring, this: the whole island vibrated with it as though a great, ringing chord had been struck. Everyone and everything heard it and responded.

Gerald Durrell

#6. I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

Billy Sherwood

#7. As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)

Anonymous

#8. A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine.

Ernest Hemingway,

#10. ugliness is bud which mature to beauty

Akshmala Sharma

#11. I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion.

Jonathan Tropper

#12. Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#13. Again, keep everything.

Nedra Reynolds

#14. So I went instead and tasted Taki's new white wine. Spiridion! what a wine ... like the blood of a dragon and smooth as a fish ...

Gerald Durrell