Tornabuoni Quotes

#1. The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.

Mary McCarthy

#2. I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.

Andy Partridge

#3. I have no image of myself in the hole; only a black square filled with nothing, a square like a door. Perhaps the square is empty; perhaps it's only a marker, a time marker that separates the time before it from the time after. The point at which I lost power.

Margaret Atwood

#4. He could not shake the feeling - reportedly common among ghosts - that it was not he but those he haunted whose lives were devoid of matter, sense, future.

Michael Chabon

#5. If people saw the world for what it truly is. Saw their lives for what they truly are. Without dreams or illusions. I don't believe they could offer the first reason why they should not elect to die as soon as possible.

Cormac McCarthy

#6. My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.

Kiefer Sutherland

#7. A sinister giggle escaped my lips. I'm not much of a giggler unless I've done something sinister.

Penny Reid

#8. Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes.

Horace

#9. Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

Daniel Berrigan

#10. In the outer realm, settlers didn't care about supple skin or glossy pink hair. Practical skills were the real beauty in those colonies, and for once, she would be stunning.

Melissa Landers

#11. In her face I saw what I'd never fully admitted to myself- the humiliatingly pathetic hopelessness of my love.

Eli Easton

#12. The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such.

Christian Nestell Bovee