Resentment Quote by Edward Luce

The one-handed palmer can always reach higher, they say. They may be right, but the result is that nearly every line-out is like a…

— Vivian Jenkins

“Barcelona didn't try to live at the same pace as other global cities. It moved to the ticking of its own clock and everyone…

— Sarah Dayan

A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big global cities…

— Matthew Desmond

For some reason I only crave fruit when I'm in a tropical place - if it's really hot in the summer or if I…

— Carmen Electra

On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time. ... Geologists…

— John McPhee

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

— Gloria Swanson

If you're ever shipwrecked on a tropical island and you don't know how to speak the natives' language, just say "Poppy-oomy." I bet it…

— Jack Handey

We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the…

— Alain de Botton

“Future joys are like tropical shores; like a fragrant breeze, they extend their innate softness to the immense inland world of past experience, and…

— Gustave Flaubert

Like a tropical storm, I, too, may one day become ‘better organized.

— Lydia Davis

People see me and they squeal like tropical birds or seals stranded on the beach.

— Carrie Fisher

London is like the tropical bush -- if you don't exercise constant care the jungle, in the shape of the slums, will break in.

— John Buchan