Vigna 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. Since this craving (for material possessions) is in the nature of competition, it only brings happiness when we outdistance a rival, to whom it brings correlative pain.

Bertrand Russell

#3. Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

Beth Orton

#4. Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Christopher Paolini

#5. We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.

Osbert Sitwell

#6. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Aldous Huxley

#7. An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#8. In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.

Italo Calvino

#9. The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Kedar Joshi

#10. That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole.

Mick Ralphs

#11. Pain or love or danger makes you real again....

Jack Kerouac

#12. gold is valuable as a currency or investment because we believe it is valuable (which is the same reason for valuing money itself). Gold's value as currency is an abstract social construct.

Paul Vigna