"The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet."

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Source : Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.27

Edward Burnett Tylor

#Feet Quotes #Mexico Quotes

“There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.”
“If I ever think you are even considering leaving me again, no matter how good you reasons, I'll have you locked in your rooms and the doors barricaded, so help me God." He lifted her foot and began to dry it. Her voice shaking, Whitney asked, "Will you stay locked in there with me?" He raised her dainty foot to his jaw and tenderly laid his cheek against it, then turned his head and kissed it. "Yes," he whispered. -Clayton Westmoreland”
“My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.”
“I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.”
“The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.”
“I used to make fun of my friends who had BlackBerries. And I know that the expression CrackBerry has been going around, but now I fully understand it. I'm actually addicted to a piece of machinery, and that's really embarrassing”
“Then you will have to trust me. Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope, trust me.”

Source : Patricia A. McKillip (1999). “Riddle-Master”, p.211, Penguin
“I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.”

Source : "Neverness". Book by David Zindell, 1988.

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