Tuscany Quotes

• Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Money, Business, Years

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• I am a product of my native land, Tuscany, Italy.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Land, Products, Native

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• Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes. I would say a private paradise in the Caribbean. If you want culture and class, I would say Tuscany. If you want exotic, I would say Bangkok, Thailand.

  Robin Leach

  Class, Culture, Exotic

  "Interview: Robin Leach interview". www.askmen.com.

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• The Grand Duke [of Tuscany] ...after observing the Medicaean plants several times with me ... has now invited me to attach myself to him with the annual salary of one thousand florins, and with the title of Philosopher and Principal Mathematicial to His Highness; without the duties of office to perform, but with the most complete leisure; so that I can complete my Treatises.

  Galileo Galilei

  Science, Office, Dukes

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• I have a lot of brothers and sisters, and each movie has helped pay for tuition. And then I was like, I only have one left in college, so why am I doing this? But now I want to go back to Italy and live on a farm in Tuscany.

  Rose McGowan

  Brother, College, Want

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• Cuando era poco más que un adolescente, fui pianista de bar en la tierra donde nací y crecí, la Toscana.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Teenager, Land, Piano

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• Los delirios de Don Quijote" es una lectura excelente, mucho mejor que mi próximo libro de viajes, "Caminando hacia atrás por la Toscana".

  Arthur Smith

  Book, Excellent, Delusion

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• Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

  Charles Babbage

  Country, Genius, Instruction

  Charles Babbage, Peter Mark Roget (1989). “Reflections on the decline of science in England and on some of its causes: with a new appendix of correspondence by Charles Babbage & Peter M. Roget from the Philosophical magazine”

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• Los museos de la Europa medieval, desde Holanda hasta Toscana, están repletos de instrumentos y aparatos con los que los santos varones trabajaban devotamente para ver cuánto tiempo podían mantener con vida a alguien mientras era asado. No es necesario entrar en más detalles, pero también había libros religiosos de instrucción en este arte, y guías para la detección de la herejía por el dolor.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Art, Pain

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.208, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• [The director's idea for the film was:] A young American or English girl goes to Tuscany to visit English expatriates. She is on a mission to lose her virginity. That's a mission easily accomplished, if that's the only mission. The story had to be more complicated than that. Because there is so little happening dramatically, there had to be something to keep you curious.

  Susan Minot

  Girl, Ideas, Directors

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• Qué imposible nos resulta imaginarnos víctimas del desastre. Sufrimos por las pobres personas que fueron arrojadas al mar desde su crucero frente a las costas de Toscana, algunas de las cuales perdieron la vida. Imaginemos un mundo de catástrofes naturales aceleradas, una tras otra, de modo que nadie pueda ayudar a nadie.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Sea, People, Suffering

  Vivienne Westwood (2016). “Get a Life: The Diaries of Vivienne Westwood”, p.60, Serpent's Tail

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