Farnese Gardens Quotes & Sayings

Mr. Tulliver did not willingly write a letter, and found the relation between spoken and written language, briefly known as spelling, one of the most puzzling things in this puzzling world. Nevertheless, like all fervid writing, the task was done in less time than usual, and if the spelling differed from Mrs. Glegg's,- why, she belonged, like himself, to a generation with whom spelling was a matter of private judgment. — George Eliot

It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday. — Anton Chekhov

I start lighting pine-scented candles the day after Halloween. — Mary Page Keller

I've always paid off my mortgage as much as I could. — Nicki Chapman

A woman in love with herself is magnetic. — Abiola Abrams

Chacko had been a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and was permitted excesses and eccentricities nobody else was. He claimed to be writing a Family Biography that the Family would have to pay him not to publish. Ammu said that there was only one person in the family who was a fit candidate for biographical blackmail and that was Chacko himself. — Arundhati Roy

Choose your 'friends' wisely, There are some who would push you to the top, and then there are others who would keep pushing you on over the Cliff. — Andrea L'Artiste

Time is that in which all things pass away. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Tristan pursed his lips. Gabriel used to be more fun. These days it seemed he just didn't give a fuck about anything. It annoyed Tristan, and it annoyed him that it annoyed him. It was normally amusing when his so-called brother was having a shitty day, but Gabriel's continued disinterest in everything was downright boring. It sucked all the fun out of it. — Alessandra Hazard

Maybe the only thing that lasts is our memories of each other... — Sylvain Reynard

I am definitively qualitative about work. — Rashida Jones

The second wolf dove straight into the free platter. Fibres of flesh ripped apart with the same terrible tearing sound of sacking stretched and broken. Red sprayed. Limbs flailed. The bloody gurgle of a scream tore from Logan's throat as he struggled against gnashing teeth.
The same slow motion bubble slotted over Violet's head, vacuuming the sound.
Time seemed to ripple around her. Her extra senses reached out, screaming as they felt Logan's existence fray. She moved without consideration, Simon close on her heels, his noises numb to her brain. — Rebecca Clare Smith

A person cannot be a Marine without honor. — Carl Epting Mundy Jr.

I love being in the gym. — Scott Brooks

The charged life, then, usually calls to us after we have done what we were supposed to do, become who we thought we were supposed to be, lived as we thought we were supposed to live. Then the safety and comfort and compromise get to us, and a stirring of restlessness and revolution sends us off in search of greater adventures and meaning. From THE CHARGE — Brendon Burchard