Marco With Wings Quotes & Sayings

Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes ... all these things are part of never-ending travel practice, not unlike doing scales on a piano, shooting free-throws, or meditating. — Phil Cousineau

I'm not into social media. I'm like from another century. — Eva Green

When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever. — Peg Bracken

Why should we refuse the happiness this hour gives us, because some other hour might take it away? — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word that he writes ... He is without doubt the prince of his profession. — Virginia Woolf

Where can you steer clear of bandits? Where do the drugs go over? Where can you avoid getting kidnapped by the narcos? Where is there a spot left with no wall, no robbers, and no narcos? Nobody has been able to answer this last question. — Oscar Martinez

I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician. — Russell Simmons

It still seems a strange decision, though, for the tortured to turn torturer."
"On the contrary, nothing could be more natural. In my experience, people do as they are done to. You were sold by your father and bought by your husband, and yet you choose to buy and sell. — Joe Abercrombie

And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction. — Donna Leon

to have faith is to have wings. Now, — J.M. Barrie