"Situated on an island which I think it will one day cover, it rises like Venice from the sea, and like that fairest of cities in the days of her glory, receives into its lap tribute of all the riches of the earth."

--

Source : Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.225, Oxford University Press

Frances Trollope

#New York Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Venice Quotes

“I never met a man I could marry.”
“What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!”
“I don't listen to my own music at home.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Popularity doesn't bother me. It attests to the affection and comprehension of the public. The important thing is to retain the pioneer spirit. I profoundly love the profession, and I work on each film as if it were the first - and the last. Giving the best of myself. Many of the 'greats' ask their arranger to write their scores for them. Me, I write all alone, from the first note to the last. All.”
“This is for all the little Stingers”
“I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you're working out you can eat better.”
“Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.”
“I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.”

You may also like: