Sevillana Dance Quotes & Sayings

The trains [in a country] contain the essential paraphernalia of the culture: Thai trains have the shower jar with the glazed dragon on its side, Ceylonese ones the car reserved for Buddhist monks, Indian ones a vegetarian kitchen and six classes, Iranian ones prayer mats, Malaysian ones a noodle stall, Vietnamese ones bulletproof glass on the locomotive, and on every carriage of a Russian train there is a samovar. The railway bazaar with its gadgets and passengers represented the society so completely that to board it was to be challenged by the national character. At times it was like a leisurely seminar, but I also felt on some occasions that it was like being jailed and then assaulted by the monstrously typical. — Paul Theroux

Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling. — Antony Hegarty

The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes. — Jilly Cooper

The problem with chasing young women is that they refuse to run. — Ronda Thompson

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality. — Jhumpa Lahiri

If I have to die, then it's best to do so before I see everything I love, the land, the animals, the people, all of it destroyed. — Wilbur Smith

As far as I'm concerned, the happiest time of my life is now. There's a future and I can't wait to get to it. — Marilyn

I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them. — Robert A. Heinlein

CHAPTER XIII SOME NEW ACQUAINTANCES ARE INTRODUCED TO THE INTELLIGENT READER; CONNECTED WITH WHOM, VARIOUS PLEASANT MATTERS ARE RELATED, APPERTAINING TO THIS HISTORY — Charles Dickens