Verdiani Firenze Quotes & Sayings

The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty. — Frank Lloyd Wright

It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood. — Hannah Storm

Memory is a rare ghost-raiser. Like a haunted house, its walls are ever echoing to unseen feet. Through the broken casements we watch the flitting shadows of the dead, and the saddest shadows of them all are the shadows of our own dead selves. — Jerome K. Jerome

Just because you're famous doesn't mean you're something special and you're above other people. — Avril Lavigne

Did you design the door?'
'No.'
'Who did? The Unknown Designer? — Brandon Mull

If you are spending too much, you cut back on spending and you raise your revenues. And that's it. — Charles B. Rangel

What I saw most in you, though, was your mother. — Jodi Picoult

The whole thing starts with a single knot
and needles. A word and pen. Tie a loop
in nothing. Look at it. Cast on, repeat
the procedure till you have a line
that you can work with.
It's a pattern made of relation alone,
my patience, my rhythm, till empty bights
create a fabric that can be worn,
if you're lucky and practised. It's never
too late
to pick up dropped stitches ...
(from "How to Knit a Poem") — Gwyneth Lewis

And yet, I seemed to feel my eyes bound, too, with bands of silk. And at my throat there was a velvet collar. — Sarah Waters