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Frances Mayes Quotes

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.

Frances Mayes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: american
Birth: April 4, 1940

Topics

Family Small Walking You Small Town

We have to be realistic: we are not going to be able to deport 11 million people - most are hard-working people.

Joe Garcia

People Realistic Going Able Million

I am interested in personal stories because that's when people become expressive, spontaneous and heartfelt.

Anna Deavere Smith

I Am People Personal Become Because

After my first year, I knew exactly what I wanted to do, what I wanted to get better at, and how I was going to do it.

Stefon Diggs

Better Year First Going Get Knew

You have to take springtime on its own terms in the Ozarks: there is no other way. It can't be predicted. It is unsteady, full of promise, promise that is sometimes broken. It is also bawdy, irrepressible, excessive, fecund, willful.

Sue Hubbell

Broken You Sometimes Way Own Take

Boldness doesn't mean rude, obnoxious, loud, or disrespectful. Being bold is being firm, sure, confident, fearless, daring, strong, resilient, and not easily intimidated. It means you're willing to go where you've never been, willing to try what you've never tried, and willing to trust what you've never trusted. Boldness is quiet, not noisy.

Mike Yaconelli

Trust Fearless Strong Confident You

At 16, I was going to church and playing music for church, and Dad would only pay for piano lessons so I could play at church.

Lizz Wright

Music Church Play Pay Piano Going

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

Lisa Marie Presley

Writing Singing Think Goal Out Sing

I can't even read music. All I know is whether I think it sounds good and if I like what I'm doing.

Boy George

Good Music Think Doing Know Even

You become a great writer by writing.

Peter Thiel

Great Writing You Become Writer

When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do. I don't wanna get ideas above my station, but why shouldn't this be comparable? Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later, and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

Paul Weller

Work Music Great Ideas Body Why

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'

Rick Perry

Future New York Texas New Know More

I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.

Ryan Reynolds

Love Passion Better Just Bikes Than