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Quotes About Plaza

notai che le armature di ferro di plaza Costituciòn avevno cambiato non so quale pubblicità di sigarette; il fatto mi dispiacque, perché compresi che l'incessante e vasto universo già si separava da lei e che quel mutamento era il primo di una serie infinita.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
But I was too hungry to think very deeply. I looked around the plaza, weighing up my chances, and rubbed the bow with rosin to give it grip. You need friction to play beautiful notes.
~ Alastair Humphreys
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.
~ Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers
Mann's Death in Venice actually contains a snippet of philosophy about the second question, when Aschenbach, collapsed in the plaza, engages in his quasi-Socratic, anti-Socratic, ruminations.
~ Philip Kitcher
We found the Plaza Mayor, an odd square with an elegant baroque town hall on one side, and ugly 1960s blocks on the other three. A
~ Jason Webster
And so, in silence, we walked the surface of a dying world, but in the breast of one of us at least had been born that which is ever oldest, yet ever new. I loved Dejah Thoris. The touch of my arm upon her naked shoulder had spoken to me in words I would not mistake, and I knew that I had loved her since the first moment my eyes had met hers that first time in the plaza of the dead city of Korad.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.
~ Al-Waleed bin Talal
I am Eloise. I am six. I live at the Plaza hotel.
~ Kay Thompson
La gente deambulaba por la plaza, hechizada por el recuerdo olvidado de la fiesta; de ese olvido provenía la tristeza de esos días. "Algún día recordaremos, recordaremos
~ Elena Garro
people worked us across the plaza and down to the parking structure. I moved with the crush of bodies the way a leaf is carried by the wind, a part of an unseen world, yet not.
~ Robert Crais
Ojalá recordaras las calles atestadas, con aquel olor a kibbeh frito, y los paseos que dábamos al atardecer con tu madre por la plaza de la Torre del Reloj.
~ Khaled Hosseini
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~ Eoin Colfer
The evolution of the plaza always came from the idea of just a really good place to ride a skateboard that you could ride at anytime, and that's what the foundation always stands for - being a place that's free, open and legal... for those that are technical, to do really hard stuff, and for those who are learning, to just have fun.
~ Rob Dyrdek
There was a small semicircular plaza at the facility's main entrance. I could see bright neon signs inside at the food stations. Outside
~ Lee Child
Yo soy una plaza. No llevo a ningún sitio: soy un sitio.
~ Alessandro Baricco
flithy pendejos who would lounge barefoot all day on the benches of the plaza. What good is a tourist that spends no money? Some of those mocosos even begged...No one called me cheap, Menos, a rich girl pretending to be poor, menos, one that I knew could any time run home to hot water and the clean house of her parents.
~ Donna M. Gershten
The man with the open umbrella was the only person in Dealey Plaza with an open umbrella. Under the warm Texas sun, there was no reason to carry an open umbrella at that time.
~ Jim Marrs
I view Che, furthermore, as a moral giant who grows day by day, whose image, whose strength, whose influence has multiplied throughout the world. How could he fit below a tombstone? How could he fit in this plaza? How could he fit solely in our beloved but small island? Only the world he dreamed of, which he lived and fought for, is big enough for him.
~ Fidel Castro
Vivira is less than forty miles north of Mazatlan," Frank said, examining a road map. "Just off the main road." A little over an hour passed before the Hardys and Chet arrived in Vivira. It was a quiet little village with many trees, and a fountain in the center of a small plaza.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
We waited on the plaza while the band wondered what to play at a time like this—something to console or wake the world, or simply to please themselves.
~ Ron Slate
Los empleados municipales lavan la sangre en la Plaza de los Sacrificios. • Octavio Paz
~ Elena Poniatowska
Under a pulsating full moon, the gussied-up Billie Jean King National Tennis Center seems much softer and prettier at night, with the fountains bubbling and fans without tickets to the big stadium sitting in the plaza and watching a big screen.
~ George Vecsey
Bullfight critics, ranked in rows, Crowd the enormous plaza full. But only one is there who knows, And he's the man that fights the bull.
~ Sam Sheridan
It would be to hear resonating within oneself the shouting of the Mothers of the Disappeared in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires in the 1970s, and to turn instead to other things.
~ Barry Lopez