💬 SenQuotes.com

Florence Quotes

1.
Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
Henry James

Authors on Florence Quotes: Roberto Cavalli William Butler Yeats Donatella Versace Katherine Cecil Thurston Wilma Rudolph Bill Vaughan Noel Coward E. M. Forster Virgil Thomson Andy Warhol Henry James Dan Brown Richard Rogers Allyson Felix Mary Ritter Beard Eric Weiner Simon Helberg Werner Herzog Adam Sandler
2.
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.
Virgil Thomson

3.
Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.
Katherine Cecil Thurston

4.
The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.
Andy Warhol

5.
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.
Bill Vaughan

6.
I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.
Wilma Rudolph

7.
As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.
E. M. Forster

8.
Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.
Roberto Cavalli

9.
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

10.
In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.
Richard Rogers

11.
The interactions of business and culture, one upon the other, form one of the least explored phases of history. For such a study, no city would appear better fixed than Florence, so richly dowered with both economic and spiritual vitality.
Mary Ritter Beard

12.
If he (Peter O'Toole) had been any prettier it would have been Florence of Arabia.
Noel Coward

13.
You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.
Eric Weiner

14.
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

15.
Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence of Dante's work on the modern world.
Dan Brown

16.
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

17.
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

18.
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

19.
Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!
Adam Sandler