Signora's Quotes

#1. The furniture and trappings in the apartment are all in a state of flux - here today, gone tomorrow. Nothing is anchored to its place, not even the coffee-pot, which floats off and returns, on the tide of the signora's marine nature.

Mary McCarthy

#2. The rest of dinner was an ordeal. When Adam looked at Signora Docci, he saw Professor Leonard; when he looked at Antonella, he saw himself kissing her in the garden; and when he looked at Harry, he found himself wondering if one of them had been adopted.

Mark Mills

#3. Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.

Karen Salmansohn

#4. I have something very important to say to you, but I can't tell you what it is. It's a very important thing, but I'll tell you another time.

Rhona Cameron

#5. One of the most fallacious doctrines originated by Satan and propounded by man is that man is saved alone by the grace of God; that belief in Jesus Christ alone is all that is needed for salvation

Spencer W. Kimball

#6. It was amazing how the right words spoken by a man could soothe insecurities.

Karen Witemeyer

#7. Just remember, there's not a lot of softness in his life, or room for weakness - of which you're definitely one. He has absolutely no idea what to do with you, and as an action guy, that's confusing to him. So maybe think about taking it easy on him. Even just a little bit.

Jill Shalvis

#8. Isn't there some truth in all fiction?" "There's some fiction in all truth too.

Catherine Lowell

#9. The personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

Jan Morris

#10. When we withhold the tithe we bring upon ourselves a curse.

Phil Pringle

#11. I will not give up on love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. He says he is starting a school here, and not just any school, but "the best of the best." He tells Signora Divino, his neighbor, "We will bring all the children from all over the world and we will live in harmony!" Is he kidding?

Sharon Creech

#13. There was a sound of slapping
When the angel stole come
And the angel that had lost
Lay back satisfied

Jack Kerouac

#14. It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

Jon Lovitz

#15. To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.

Cam Gigandet

#16. We all got used to living in the cloud of unknowing.

Amanda Palmer

#17. The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.

Angela Merkel

#18. THE SIGNORA HAD NO business to do it," said Miss Bartlett, "no business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a court-yard, and a long way apart. Oh, Lucy!

E. M. Forster

#19. It's a thrill to look at the clear night sky and discover a new star before anybody else sees it.

Haruki Murakami