Quotes About Pensione

#1. A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione on an allowance of £40 a month, which was princely. I did a lot of work and enjoyed myself immensely.

James Fenton

#2. Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

Phil Ochs

#3. Reverend Wright has been my friend and mentor for over 20 years.

Barack Obama

#4. I slowly came to realize that this job of being an actor, you spend most of your time looking for work. That is your job. Your job is auditioning. You spend very little of your time actually working.

Nathan Fillion

#5. Not being in tune with your customers is like living in an alternate reality; the way you think your customers feel about your product is not always the same as what your customers really think about your product.

Bo Bennett

#6. I'd forgotten how your blood flows toward a person when they move, so that all at once, you know what the pull of gravity feels like. And you know that this is something strong and important, something that you need for life, this woman moving through the room.

Jane Hamilton

#7. I've never quite understood why the knuckleheads of the planet so outnumber the rest of us.

Duane Hewitt

#8. His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.

Anne Bronte

#9. All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off, but they've all given me a fervor. An angry ambition that cannot be stopped-and I look forward to finding a therapist and working on that.

Tobey Maguire

#10. The rupture between faith and knowledge is a symptom of the split consciousness which is so characteristic of the mental disorder of our day.

C. G. Jung

#11. Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

Thomas Nashe

#12. A minute later the steam stopped. By then, I was soaking wet and, no doubt, my pores were open. Some people pay a fortune for this kind of beauty treatment. I got mine for free, if you disregard the bruises, headache and all those dead people."
- Corin Hayes, Silent City (working title)

G.R. Matthews