Florence Quotes - Page 2

• I feel like my name completely does not belong on that list [of great athlets], but I'm completely grateful for everything that they [Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Florence Griffith-Joyner and even Wilma Rudolph] have done.

  Allyson Felix

  Grateful, Names, Lists

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Florence and Milan had given him ideas more flexible than those of people who'd stayed at home.

  Hilary Mantel

  Travel, Home, Ideas

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• 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

  Italian, Happy Times, Interesting

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• Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a mysterious force. A desire to 'go' runs through me equally with an intense desire to 'stay' at home. An equal and opposite thermodynamic principle. When I travel, I think of home and what it means. At home I'm dreaming of catching trains at night in the gray light of Old Europe, or pushing open shutters to see Florence awaken. The balance just slightly tips in the direction of the airport.

  Frances Mayes

  Running, Dream, Home

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• I doubt if Dickens did, especially his women-his pretty women-Mrs. Dombey, Florence, Dora, Agnes, Ruth Pinch, Kate Nickleby, little Emily-we know them all through Hablot Browne alone-and none of them present any very marked physical characteristics. They are sweet and graceful, neither tall nor short; they have a pretty droop in their shoulders, and are very ladylike; sometimes they wear ringlets, sometimes not, and each would do very easily for the other.

  George du Maurier

  Sweet, Pretty Woman, Doubt

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• In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched one particularly inept surgeon cut both himself and, somehow, a bystander while blundering about during an amputation. Both men contracted an infection and died, as did the patient. Nightingale commented that it was the only surgery she'd ever seen with 300 percent mortality.

  Sam Kean

  War, Cutting, Men

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• For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians she was a self-righteous, domineering amazon, who was ruthless in her compassion, merciless in her philantropy, destructive in friendships, obsessional in her list for power, and demonic in her saintliness.

  David Cannadine

  Compassion, Self, Florence Nightingale

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• I was like, I can't believe I get to be in a scene with Meryl Streep [in Florence Foster Jenkins]! And then I was like, but why do I have to play Chopin? It's already going to be intimidating.

  Simon Helberg

  Believe, Play, Intimidating

  "Simon Helberg sharingbig screen with Meryl Streep". Interview with Nina Metz, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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• I know that they [Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Florence Griffith-Joyner and even Wilma Rudolph] have paved the way and they have been a source of inspiration.

  Allyson Felix

  Inspiration, Way, Rudolph

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

  William Butler Yeats

  Passing Moments, Sincerity, Said

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• I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.

  Donatella Versace

  Mother, Degrees, Needs

  Interview with Nicki Minaj, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 8, 2011.

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• In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

  Larry Gatlin

  Mother, Florida, Florence Nightingale

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• The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Book, Glowing

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• Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!

  Adam Sandler

  Together, Half, Fine

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• Speak up,' says Myrna who has a fuzzy white caterpillar of a moustache. 'My hearing's not so good.' 'I WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD.' Liz turns to Thandi. 'I thought you said you didn't remember how you got the hole in your head.' Thandi apologizes. 'I just remembered.' 'Shot in the head!' Florence-scratchy-voice says. 'Oy, that's rough.' 'Aw, it's nothing special. Happens pretty regularly where I'm from,' Thandi says. 'WHAT?' asks Myrna with the moustache. 'Say it toward my left ear, that's the good one.' 'I SAID, "IT'S NOTHING SPECIAL,"' Thandi yells/

  Gabrielle Zevin

  White, Voice, Special

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• If you go to Florence, it has all surface beauty, but like Venice, it's simply a museum of Renaissance times. Los Angeles is raw, uncouth and bizarre, but it's a place of substance. It has more new horizons than any other place.

  Werner Herzog

  Museums, Venice, New Horizons

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• I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Ran

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• I often compare Margaret Thatcher with Florence Nightingale. She stalks through the wards of our hospitals as a lady with a lamp. Unfortunately, it's a blowlamp.

  Denis Healey

  Florence Nightingale, Lamps, Stalking

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• New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice, not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its unpredicted end. . . . It is the first American section to be finished to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization, the first permanent civilization in America.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Life, Destiny, Civilization

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• Where the Tennessee River, like a silver snake, winds her way through the clay hills of Alabama, sits high on these hills, my home town, Florence.

  William Christopher Handy

  Home, Wind, Snakes

  William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”

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• remember a feeling of excitement, of sudden inspiration, when I was visiting Giovanni Boccaccio's home in the walled village of Certaldo, outside of Florence. (Boccaccio was the medieval author of The Decameron.) It was as though I had met my muse! After this trip, I read The Decameron and began writing the Alchemy Series in earnest.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Inspiration, Home, Writing

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• I trained with a guy named Tito Gobbi, who was the Marlon Brando of the opera world. Tito Gobbi was the greatest singing baritone in the opera world and I studied in Florence, Firenze, with him. That was my first love, as it was Frank Sinatra's, oddly enough.

  Robert Davi

  First Love, Guy, Singing

  "Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, 'Davi’s Way' And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

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• You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it. On the whole, I dislike my fellow beings; I find them so difficult to understand. But I have a tidy mind and untidy lives irritate me. Also, they are uncivilized.

  Stella Gibbons

  Florence Nightingale, Mind, Said

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• When I was 12 years old, I read Nancy Drew mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys.

  Joyce Maynard

  Girl, Horse, Book

  "Coming of Age with Judy Blume". www.nytimes.com. December 3, 1978.

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• I had a crush Florence Henderson when I was younger, i would love to meet Marcia but I would prefer mom.

  Danny Trejo

  Love, Crush, Mom

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