"Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having……" — Frances Mayes
"Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking."
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38 Quotes by Frances Mayes
Frances Mayes has 38 quotes on this site.
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Italy's siren call lures us more and more.
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The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.
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Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter…
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Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two…
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May summer last a hundred years.
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Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way.
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I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.
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It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when…
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Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.
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Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with…
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Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream,…
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Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I…
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Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
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Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an…
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You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
— Jack Black
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There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks…
— Julie Burchill
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Well, Amber [Heard] is still raising her eyebrow at me because I said that I've been 180 miles per hour…
— Nicolas Cage
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I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!
— Isabelle Fuhrman
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The world is like an eye, a beard, a spot of beauty and eyebrow, Where each thing is neatly in…
— Hafez
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
— Paloma Faith
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Before taking the stage, Paul Ryan spent 6 hours staring into a mirror working on 'concerned eyebrow.'
— Damien Fahey
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I mean there’s a certain finality about a movie, when it’s done it’s done – that raised eyebrow in that…
— Tracy Letts
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The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics,…
— Terence McKenna
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I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous…
— William Allen White
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