Frances Mayes Inspirational Quotes (32)

The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.

Poems give you the lives of others and then circle in on your own inner world.

the house protects the dreamer the houses that are important to us are the ones that allow us to dream in peace. Guests we've had stop in for a night or two all come down the first morning, ready to tell their dreams.

The Dream Lover-what a bold, insightful, and enticing novel. And how vigorously Elizabeth Berg brings us the iconoclastic life of George Sand. Berg writes with such intimacy and compassion that I think she must have some shared ancestral DNA with Sand. I savored every page.

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.

It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.