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The world cracks open for those willing to take a risk.
— Frances Mayes
[As Chevalley says,] 'Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect ...
— Frances Mayes
Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.
— Frances Mayes
If I lived here, ... I have a feeling this place would take me.
— Frances Mayes
cheer practice was over. "Most likely," I replied, stretching
— Sharon Rose Mayes
There is so much jasmine and nightshade in the garden that we all wake with lyrical headaches.
— Frances Mayes
In that moment, I knew it. There was no point denying it to myself anymore. I was in love with Jesse Mayes.
— Jaine Diamond
Make sure the thing you're living for is worth dying for.
— Charles Mayes Wigg
Often, seemingly spontaneous acts come from a deep, unacknowledged place, and a sudden decision feels inevitable and right.
— Frances Mayes
Oh, come on, he was twenty-six. And he had poetry on his lips.
— Frances Mayes
I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.
— Frances Mayes
Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
— Wendell Mayes
But, really, such an uprooting is instinctual. Time to rebel. Internal gears began to grind, propelling you forward - then you invent the reasons. My
— Frances Mayes
One habit: choosing a book and starting each day with a dedicated time of reading and gazing, becoming an apprentice to a mind I admire.
— Frances Mayes
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
The Only Thing More Surprising Than the Chance She's Taking ... Is Where It's Taking Her!
— Frances Mayes
Although he's slight, he has that wiry strength that seems to come more from will than muscle.
— Frances Mayes
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
We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
— Wendell Mayes
I'll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.
— Frances Mayes
All afternoon in the deck chair, I try to describe to my notebook the colors of the water and sky. How to translate sunlight into words?
— Frances Mayes
A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.
— Frances Mayes
[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
And my mother, whose radius of travel was short, tied the letters with ribbon and kept them in her desk, When you get the chance, she said to me, go.
— Frances Mayes
Although I am a person who expected to be rooted in one spot forever, as it has turned out I love having the memories of living in many places.
— Frances Mayes
In my notboredom but lack of available activity, I eavesdrop from their closet, hunching down among the Capezios and crinolines piled on the floor.
— Frances Mayes
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
There is no technique, there is just the way to do it.
Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook? — Frances Mayes
Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook? — Frances Mayes
Images are the pegs holding down memory's billowing tent.
— Frances Mayes
Have you ever been at a point that you don't know what to say? But yet you came up with this crazy idea to type this.
— Eric Mayes
Even gelato, which used to be divine all over Italy, is not dependably good anymore.
— Frances Mayes
How can we know anyone, even those people closest to us - especially those closest to us?
— P.T. Mayes
We were given one country and we've set up in another.
— Frances Mayes
Everybody's broken, sweetie. God helps us get put back together.
~Rev. Mayes
The Kind of Friends We Used to Be — Frances O'Roark Dowell
~Rev. Mayes
The Kind of Friends We Used to Be — Frances O'Roark Dowell
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
— Frances Mayes
Italy's siren call lures us more and more.
— Frances Mayes
Falling in love with a book brings the same catapulting madness and zest that falling in love with a person brings.
— Frances Mayes
Behind sunglasses we linger over espresso, talking about pizza as an art form, the geekiness of people's travel clothes ...
— Frances Mayes
As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.
— Frances Mayes
My idea of heaven still is to drive the gravel farm roads of Umbria and Tuscany, very pleasantly lost.
— Frances Mayes
We are walking on the foundations of literature, up the steep, stony path in the fiery heat.
— Frances Mayes
Memory is, of course, a trickster.
— Frances Mayes
Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
— Wendell Mayes
Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.
— Frances Mayes
Where is it written that houses must be beige? Any dun colored house would look better if painted pineapple, cream, ochre, or even a smart sage.
— Frances Mayes
Look if you like but you will have to leap. Yes, I've always known that; I just didn't know that I knew.
— Frances Mayes
It is not 2006 all over the world. So who are you in a place where 1950 or 1920 is about to arrive?
— Frances Mayes
The words 'forse che si,' 'forse che no', 'perhaps yes,' 'perhaps no,' repeat along all paths.
— Frances Mayes
After owning a pool, I think the best way to enjoy the water is to have a friend who has a pool.
— Frances Mayes
Martin Buber said, 'All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.
— Frances Mayes
There are many things for which I owe gratitude to my dad. Most of all, I am grateful to the only man who could love my mother more than me.
— Ron Mayes