“Such a healthy, simple, approving glance as if he were saying to himself: “Ah, spring is coming!” And God knows, when spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.” ― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
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Fashion's top headlines“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Read more →“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” ― Coco Chanel
Read more →“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” ― Bob Marley
Read more →“It's easy to fall in love among the winding cobblestone streets and snow-covered castles of Prague, but is it a good idea?” ― Dana Newman, Found in Prague
Read more →“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ― Augustine of Hippo
Read more →“As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.” ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Read more →“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” ― Jim Henson
Read more →“One of the hallmarks of Chicago is that we do so many things in an original manner. What other city has made a river flow backwards? What other city makes traffic flow backwards?” ― Mike Royko
Read more →“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Healthcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.” ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Read more →“If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person. If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person. Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.” ― Peter Deunov
Read more →“There is no more sagacious animal than the Icelandic horse. He is stopped by neither snow, nor storm, nor impassable roads, nor rocks, glaciers, or anything. He is courageous, sober, and surefooted. He never makes a false step, never shies. If there is a river or fjord to cross (and we shall meet with many) you will see him plunge in at once, just as if he were amphibious, and gain the opposite bank.” ― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
Read more →“When good Americans die, they go to Paris.” ― Oscar Wilde
Read more →“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Read more →“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Read more →“An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.” ― Mark Twain, SLC to Pamela A. Moffett
Read more →“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” ― Oscar Wilde
Read more →“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” ― Tennessee Williams
Read more →“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent” ― Victor Hugo
Read more →“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.” ― Charles Baudelaire
Read more →“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.” ― Tom Wolfe
Read more →“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Read more →“You can leave Hong Kong, but it will never leave you.” ― Nury Vittachi, Hong Kong: The City of Dreams
Read more →“In the dead white hours in Zurich staring into a stranger's pantry across the upshine of a street-lamp, he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
Read more →“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Read more →"Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day." — Thomas Jefferson
Read more →“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Read more →“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” ― Oscar Wilde
Read more →“Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.” ― William Faulkner
Read more →"If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair." ― Scott McKenzie
Read more →“Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
Read more →“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Read more →“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.” ― Angela Carter
Read more →“Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.” - Nelson Algren
Read more →“This is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.” ― Alexander McCall Smith
Read more →“If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.” ― Lemony Snicket
Read more →“Hey, Mr. Nakata. Gramps. Fire! Flood! Earthquake! Revolution! Godzilla's on the loose! Get up, already!” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Read more →“Charleston is one of the best built, handsomest, and most agreeable cities that I have ever seen.” – Marquis de Lafayette
Read more →“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.” ― Oscar Wilde
Read more →“The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination.” ― George Bernard Shaw
Read more →“I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!” ― Audrey Hepburn
Read more →“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Read more →“New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.” ― Mark Twain
Read more →“Fashion changes, but style endures.” ― Coco Chanel
Read more →“Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?” ― Peggy Kopman-Owens
Read more →“Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.” ― Audrey Hepburn
Read more →“The steward just asked me if I was not afraid to travel alone, and I said, "Why, it is life.” ― Emily Hahn, Congo Solo; Misadventures Two Degrees North
Read more →“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” ― Albert Camus
Read more →“See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Read more →“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” ― Rumi
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