A Year In Provence Quotes & Sayings

The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions. — Frederick Sommer

We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair. — Cecelia Ahern

The establishment of Christianity ... arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years. — Andrew Dickson White

There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think 'YES'! — J.K. Rowling

Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions ... — Anita Shreve

In Maslow's pyramid of needs, Abraham Maslow demonstrates the hierarchy of human requirements, most basic at the bottom, in a diagram. If you ask me, putting people's most basic requirements in a pyramid is bloody exclusive in the first place.They're extremely difficult to build, only pharoahs are allows in them and Indiana Jones was very nearly killed trying to get the treasure out. — Russell Brand

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch. — Jane Fonda

Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train. — Elizabeth David

You can't feel the need to be liked in public life, because if you do you will compromise the principles that are so important to the public having confidence in your ethics and integrity. — Graeme Samuel

Nature's message was always there and for us to see. It was written on the wings of butterflies. — Kjell Bloch Sandved

The global economy is a doomsday machine that must be stopped and reprogrammed. — Kalle Lasn