"When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner."

-- Frances Mayes

#Reading Quotes #Names Quotes #Twelve Quotes

“...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.”
“Let us ask Mary to help us fix our eyes intently on Jesus, to follow him always, even when this is demanding.”
“...the greatest tyrants over women are women.”
“I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways.”
“The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.”
“Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldnâ€™t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.”
“People ask me if my shoes were too small when I was a kid and I say it wouldnt matter how fight my shoes were, I just liked that feeling of them being in there. Thats how I started tapping my toes.”
“I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?”

You may also like:

Amy Adams
Actress
Diane Lane
Actress
Jacob Needleman
Philosopher
Josh Brolin
Actor
Peter Mayle
Author
Philip Morrison
S. I. Hayakawa
Former United States Senator
Geoffrey Marcy
Pawel Szajda
Actor