Farnesina Quotes & Sayings

For Marianne, however - in spite of his incivility in surviving her loss - he always retained that decided regard which interested him in every thing that befell her, and made her his secret standard of perfection in woman; - and many a rising beauty would be slighted by him in after-days as bearing no comparison with Mrs. Brandon. — Jane Austen

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose. — Toni Braxton

To me, it's all about inspiration. What gets me creatively excited is a challenge. — Bill Skarsgard

When I was growing up the publishing world seemed so far away. When my mother wrote a book, she would look up the address of publishers on the backs of the books she owned and send off her manuscript. — Kiran Desai

It's easier to stop bad things than to pass good things. — Jared Polis

If I'm doing a talk show or an interview, or pretty much anything where I can't control the context, I'm loath to do the character. — Stephen Colbert

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying. — Dora Russell

I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known. — E.W. Howe

I do not believe, as we shall presently see, that all our dogs have descended from any one wild species; but, in the case of some other domestic races, there is presumptive, or even strong, evidence in favour of this view. — Charles Darwin

I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided up into these discrete humans and that your physical self, your physical attributes, your moment of history and the place where you were born determine who you are as much as all that indefinable stuff that's inside of you. — Deborah Eisenberg

What would I do if I weren't afraid? Haw — Spencer Johnson