Quotes About Cafés

The four cafés on the Boulevard Victor-Noir, shining in the night, side by side, and which are much more than café--aquariums, ships, stars or great white eyes--have lost their ambiguous charm.

The smell of baking bread wafts up to my cell and reminds me of the days I walked freely in the cafes. This tears me apart more than my fear of death or the solitude in which I now find myself.

In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

Il me dit qu'il aime Paris, qu'il ne pourrait pas habiter ailleurs, qu'il a vécu à Londres, à New York, mais qu'il n'aime que Paris, à cause de ce passé sulfureux qui émane des murs et qui flotte dans les rues, à cause de la lumière des réverbères sur les trottoirs humides et des visages tristes derrière les vitres des cafés.

Culture survives in smaller spaces - not in the history books that erect monuments to the nation's grand history but in cafes and cinema houses, village squares, and half-forgotten libraries.

People sometimes complain that Berliners just sit around all day in cafes, smoking and talking about art. Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

The smell of baking bread wafts up to my cell and reminds me of the days I walked freely in the cafes. This tears me apart more than my fear of death or the solitude in which I now find myself.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

After the cafes of Paris with their exquisite wines and creamy fromages, crepes and steak tartare-- screaming Adore me!-- Madrid was these store-bought hunks of unyielding cheese and brick-hard baguettes, consumed in leafless Buen Retiro Park.ll Madrid, dressed as it was, tasting as it did, prideful as hell, didn't care what you thought about it on your junior-year backpacking trip. That was your problem.

El tango se impone como la música argentina por excelencia. Ya no pertenece al tugurio ni a los salones exclusivos. Es de todos. Se escucha en los cafés y en los cinematógrafos y se baila en los clubes al compás de las orquestas típicas. A partir de la grabación de 'Mi noche triste' (1917), de Castriota y Contursi, en la voz de Carlos Gardel, se produce un punto de inflexión en la historia de la música popular rioplatense.

Il m'arrivait souvent de capter des bribes de conversation d'inconnus dans les cafés. Je les notais le plus discrètement que possible. Au moins, ces paroles n'étaient pas perdues pour toujours. Elle remplissent cinq cahiers, avec des dates et des points de suspension.

Lisbon is a good city to get lost in. Mornings in cafes scribbling in yet another notebook, each blank page offering escape, the pen serving, fluid and constant. I sleep well, dream little, simply exists within an uninterrupted interlude.

They sat in the cafes with their fresh faces and long lovely legs and waited for something outrageous to happen.