January 2012
200 posts
December 2011
96 posts
“You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What!...”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, 1762 (via caryrandolph)
“Paris, or Lutetia, as it was originally called, actually began as an island...”
– The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City by David Lebovitz
“There’s a French aesthetic about drinking glasses, whether for wine or water:...”
– The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City by David Lebovitz
“good wineglasses are as important as good posture in Paris.”
– The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City by David Lebovitz
“In Paris, the most unbelievably rude thing you can do—and believe me, I seem to...”
– The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City by David Lebovitz
“Americans don’t like to accept defeat, which is why the phrase, “Can I speak to...”
– The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City by David Lebovitz
“One of the most important things I would tell anyone moving to France is not to...”
– The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World’s Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City by David Lebovitz
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving...”
– Albert Einstein (via quote-book)
“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via warpten)
“With the advent of containers, ships have lost their old shapely elegance, and...”
– A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East by Tiziano Terzani
“For some strange reason we tend to think of human events as taking place on...”
– A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East by Tiziano Terzani
“sailors are a dying race. Already they are no longer called by the old names:...”
– A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East by Tiziano Terzani
“It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will...”
– Claude Debussy (via vect0r-analysis)
