I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.
Places Quotes
As an American, I can decide on any given day whether or not I wish to think of (foreign) abominations. I need not consider them. I can simply refuse to open the morning paper. In Israel, one has no such choice. There the violent total is added up every day. And nothing can be omitted… […]
And this is good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots, And the Cabots talk only to God.
I guess it is the physical and cultural remoteness of South Dakota that compels everyone to memorialize almost every South Dakotan who has ever left the state and achieved some recognition. As a child I would pore over newspapers and magazines, looking for some sign that the rest of the world knew we existed.
It is hard for man to make any city worthy of such surroundings as Nature has given to Rio.
New Zealand seems far better adapted to developand maintain in health the physical than the intellectual nature.
A mountain here is only beautiful if it has good grass on it. Scenery is not scenery – it is ‘country’… If it is good for sheep, it is beautiful, magnificent, and all the rest of it; if not, it is not worth looking at.
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter’s wand.
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
