“Afloat.We move: Delicious! Ah, What else is like the gondola?” MovingDeliciousGondolas Author:Arthur Hugh Clough
“Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]” KnowsDoeParisGondolas Author:Honore de Balzac
“[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.” WaterCitiesPassingPassingsVeniceWondrousCarvingGondolas Author:Sylvia Pankhurst
“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.” PastRomanceNightPassionImaginationAliveSingingGamblingIntrigueAdulteryVeniceAbductionGondolas Author:Peggy Guggenheim
“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.” KnowsWritingBookStatesEnoughWould BeBuildingClimateClimate ChangePopulationOptimisticBombsEmpiresHeatingCoolingEmpire State BuildingEmpire StateGondolas Author:Paul R. Ehrlich
“Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.” BeautifulBlueBeautiful ThingsJeansDenimBlue JeansGondolas Author:Diana Vreeland
“Sailin' 'round the world in a dirty gondola Oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!” WorldLandTravelRoundsDirtyCoca ColaGondolas Author:Bob Dylan
“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?” MenWorldLifeWritingMayLife IsWrittenWallTablesCourtCoachesPostsSublimeCarriagesDon JuanJuanHackneyGondolas Author:Lord Byron
“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.” YearsMayStillsDreamThreeNamesStarsImaginationHalfTreeLandStrangePlanetsFlowerMoonWake UpDancingPaintCloudsThree YearsHighwaysDessertUnfamiliarSpraySwansGraffitiFirecrackerSpray PaintGondolas Author:Rob Brezsny
“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.” TryingArtNightWaterChurchCitiesGoneQuietLegsShirtsMaskCracksMuseumsLunchSquaresEchoesGreat ArtVeniceCanalsHordeGondolas Author:Rick Steves