Pensione Quotes & Sayings

A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione on an allowance of £40 a month, which was princely. I did a lot of work and enjoyed myself immensely. — James Fenton

One with a cubicle and a desk that snags your panty hose and endless memos about the right way to dispose of recyclables. And lots and lots of petty intrigue and small-minded politics, all intended to distract you from the fact that you're getting two percent raises from a company that's returning twenty percent to its stockholders. That's a real grown-up's job. — Laura Lippman

Happiness was still on the other side of a glass door, but at least she could see it through the glass, like a prisoner being visited by a longed-for loved one. — Jeanette Winterson

A wish becomes a greatest desire at the very moment when a person's belief in the seemingly impossible is stronger than any doubt.
-Kevin McNamara — S.L. Whyte

We are ready to say that we rule the entire Elgin enterprise as irrelevant to the present. — Melina Mercouri

What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please. — Fergie