Cities Quote by Warren Hoge

If some confectioners were willing To let the shape announce the filling, We'd encounter fewer assorted chocs, Bitten into and returned to the box.

— Ogden Nash

“Once inside the confectioners, she was spellbound by sugared fruits hung in garlands and glass bottles sparkling with morsels of sugar. While Loveday spoke…

— Martine Bailey

I would stand transfixed before the windows of the confectioners' shops, fascinated by the luminous sparkle of candied fruits, the cloudy lustre of jellies,…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear,…

— Nina Berberova

People often thought Leopold Auer was Russian because he lived in St. Petersburg so long, almost fifty years.

— Gyorgy Ligeti

“Brucan had been in Moscow earlier that year, not that we, the people, were aware of that, getting orders to organise the Ceauşescus' fall.”

— Florin Grancea

Moscow has changed. I was here in 1982, during the Brezhnev twilight, and things are better now. For instance, they've got litter. In 1982…

— P. J. O'Rourke

There are definitely many adventures on the road with Jessica 6. It sometimes feels like we're in a movie. I was recently kidnapped by…

— Nomi Ruiz

In Washington and Moscow they are saying, 'Man has finally come of age; he doesn't need paternalistic help.' Which is another way of saying,…

— Philip K. Dick

I was interviewed by the Moscow Times and they said how's it feel to know that every Russian school child has to read your…

— Dee Snider

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

— Anatoly Chubais

Turkey's NATO membership is one thing that is forestalling the worst-case scenario - open conflict between Russia and Turkey - because neither Moscow nor…

— Peter Kenyon