Fratantoni Vincent Quotes & Sayings

CHILDHOOD I That idol, black eyes and yellow mop, without parents or court, nobler than Mexican and Flemish fables; his domain, insolent azure and verdure, runs over beaches called by the shipless waves, names ferociously Greek, Slav, Celt. At the border of the forest - dream flowers tinkle, flash, and flare, - the girl with orange lips, knees crossed in the clear flood that gushes from the fields, nakedness shaded, traversed, dressed by rainbow, flora, sea. Ladies who stroll on terraces adjacent to the sea; baby girls and giantesses, superb blacks in the verdigris moss, jewels upright on the rich ground of groves and little thawed gardens, - young mothers and big sisters with eyes full of pilgrimages, sultanas, princesses tyrannical of costume and carriage, little foreign misses and young ladies gently unhappy. What boredom, the hour of the "dear body" and "dear heart." II — Arthur Rimbaud

The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena. — Robert Nozick

All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm. — Mark Twain

If there was one thing I'd like to teach young women, it would be that you can eat and still be fit and lean. — Torrie Wilson

They call me Domino for obvious reasons. One nudge in the right direction and I'm flat on my stomach. — Charlie Cochrane

There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color ... We must fight back. — Elizabeth Warren

You could trust numbers, except perhaps for pi, but he was working on that in his spare time and it was bound to give in sooner or later. — Terry Pratchett