Floating City Quotes

Seattle was built out on pilings over the sea, and at high tide the whole city seemed to come afloat like a ship lifting free from a mud berth and swaying in its chains.

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

Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes.

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall.

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.

Venice is eternity itself.

Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.

Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.

One of the most marvelous features of Canton is the city of house boats, floating and stationary, in which about a quarter of a million people live and, it may with truth be added, are born and die. This population is quite distinct in race from the land population of Canton, which looks down upon it as a pariah and alien caste.

Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial to make our imaginations ignite and turn fantasies into realities.