Sirens Quote by Frances Mayes Download Open image “Italy's siren call lures us more and more.” — Frances Mayes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sirens
Unfortunately, it is part of Italian football and our culture to come to the stadium and whistle players for the choices they make. — Leonardo Bonucci Copy Share Image
People are very passionate in Italy. If you like something, you like something. If you hate something, you hate something. When you hate something,… — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
We Italians need to feel like we're under pressure, we need to see an enemy. — Gianluca Vialli Copy Share Image
I think this is something special about Italy; waking up, taking the coffee in the morning and talking only about football. — Dries Mertens Copy Share Image
The Italians are said to be noisy and to gesticulate, but that is a libel dreamed up by the English. — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality. — Stewart Copeland Copy Share Image
Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands. — Ingrid Bergman Copy Share Image
For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
You know, when you are the Italian national team, all the time you need to win because for our history, it is important for… — Fabio Cannavaro Copy Share Image
If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“[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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
The Only Thing More Surprising Than the Chance She's Taking...Is Where It's Taking Her! — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I am a siren, and for my adoration of mankind, have been caught in fishing nets one time too many. And in those fishing… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
...for the first time in my life, a voice went off in my head:'You have no power over what happens in your life. Drugs… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“There, amongst the angry water was the glow of green eyes, hundreds of them encompassed the entire area...We were completely and totally surrounded. They… — Meredith Taylor Copy Share Image
The masses do not see the Sirens. They do not hear songs in the air. Blind, deaf, stooping, they pull at their oars in… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly. — D.B.C. Pierre Copy Share Image
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling… — George Chapman Copy Share Image
New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens,… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Writers will see your work and want to try you in different things but I think you have to stay true to your vehicle.… — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren, What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes, Rhythm, perfume, light, o… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches in his… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
