Gondolas Quotes

• Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

  Diana Vreeland

  Beautiful, Blue, Jeans

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

  Sylvia Pankhurst

  Cities, Venice, Water

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• Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola
  Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

  Bob Dylan

  Travel, Dirty, Land

  Song: When I Paint My Masterpiece

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• By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird legs and antennae. At night, when the hordes of day-trippers have gone, another Venice appears. Dance across a floodlit square. Glide in a gondola through quiet canals while music echoes across the water. Pretend it's Carnevale time, don a mask - or just a fresh shirt - and become someone else for a night.

  Rick Steves

  Art, Night, Venice

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

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Moving, Delicious

  'Dipsychus' (1865) sc. 5

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• 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 romance, elopements, abductions, revenged passions, intrigues, adulteries, denouncements, unaccountable deaths, gambling, lute playing and singing.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Passion, Past, Night

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• As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?

  Lord Byron

  Life, Wall, Writing

  On 'Don Juan' in a letter to Douglas Kinnaird, October 26 1819: L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 6 (1978)

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• May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while you're still half-asleep. May you spray-paint Rilke poems as graffiti on highway overpasses... My you learn to identify by name 20 flowers, 15 trees, 10 clouds, and one extrasolar planet... May you dream of taking a trip to the moon in a gondola powered by firecrackers and wild swans.

  Rob Brezsny

  Dream, Stars, Flower

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• The gondola of London [a hansom].

  Benjamin Disraeli

  London

  'Lothair' (1870) ch. 27 (a hansom cab)

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• Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from?
  [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

  Honore de Balzac

  Paris, Doe, Knows

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• Overall, The Population Bomb was probably too optimistic. I was writing about climate change - Anne and I actually wrote the book. We discussed whether or not you'd have to take a gondola to the Empire State Building, and that sort of thing, but we didn't know at the time whether the climate change would be in the direction of heating or cooling. We just didn't know enough about it.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Book, Optimistic, Writing

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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