Doe Quote by Honore de Balzac

Parisiennes rarely walk around wearing the giant diamonds that are de rigueur in certain New York neighborhoods.

— Pamela Druckerman

May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while…

— Rob Brezsny

“It really does look like musical sheets, frayed at the edges, constantly played, coming to you in tidal scores, in bars of canals with…

— Joseph Brodsky

Afloat.We move: Delicious! Ah, What else is like the gondola?

— Arthur Hugh Clough

“like corks. To Langdon’s surprise, dozens of gondolas were making this same crossing. Their slender hulls—at nearly forty feet in length and almost fourteen…

— Dan Brown

As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not…

— Lord Byron

[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

— Sylvia Pankhurst

The gondola of London [a hansom].

— Benjamin Disraeli

To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past alive with…

— Peggy Guggenheim

“Venice appeared to me as in a recurring dream, a place once visited and now fixed in memory like images on a photographer’s plates…

— Gary Inbinder

By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird…

— Rick Steves

Overall, The Population Bomb was probably too optimistic. I was writing about climate change - Anne and I actually wrote the book. We discussed…

— Paul R. Ehrlich