Basil Quote by Frances Mayes

“Always, I liked the infinitive 'to go.' Let's go, let's go. let's really go. 'Andare' was the first verb I learned to conjugate in…

— Frances Mayes

“[As Garibaldi says,] 'Sleep, my dear Chevalley, sleep, that is what Sicilians want, and they will always hate anyone who tries to wake them...”

— Frances Mayes

All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight…

— Frances Mayes

Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.

— Frances Mayes

The Only Thing More Surprising Than the Chance She's Taking...Is Where It's Taking Her!

— Frances Mayes

The Italians have their priorities right: They're driven, they do their work, but they really enjoy the day-to-day and they don't put off the…

— Frances Mayes

Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.

— Frances Mayes

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

— Frances Mayes

“There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream.”

— Frances Mayes

“And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her desk, When you get the…

— Frances Mayes

I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that…

— Frances Mayes

“[As Chevalley says,] 'Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect...”

— Frances Mayes