Nanette Lepore Quotes

If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.

Venice is the prettiest city I've ever seen. It looks like a Disneyland ride.

[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

It's beautiful being out in the wild.

Venice is eternity itself.

I love to get out and see real life and to walk, which is why I love Venice so much - it's such a great walking city.

In memory Venice is always magic.

Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls

Those have not lived who have not seen Rome.

Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the Serenissima

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.

Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!

Bora Bora is peaceful and quiet, but fun, so full of cool activities and more; spiritual to the core, and you leave with fully recharged batteries.

Paris is a beautiful city.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Cairo, mother of cities ... mistress of broad provinces and fruitful lands, boundless in multitude of buildings, peerless in beauty and splendor, the meeting-place of comer and goer, the stopping-place of feeble and strong. ... She [Cairo] surges as the waves of the sea with her throngs of folk and can scarce contain them

To see the Earth below you when we could take a break... to appreciate the environment around us was very special.

I like to write about beautiful places, interesting places to me.

I like listening to ambient music, especially in very scenic places because I think it allows for the most freedom of thought.

If I didn't live in London, I would live in Glasgow. I love the colour of the brick and the black ironwork. I think it's got such atmosphere and is extraordinary. I met great people there.

There is nothing - nothing - that beats being in the jungles. It's so easy to just sit and meditate there.