A Quote by Andre Aciman

Marseilles, Barcelona, Trieste, Istanbul - each romances the Mediterranean in its own fashion, mostly by embracing the sea in sweeping C-shaped bays that date back to antiquity.

Andre Aciman

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Antiquity Back Barcelona Date Each Embracing Fashion Istanbul Mediterranean Mostly Own Sea Shaped Sweeping

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Andre Aciman
American - Writer
Born: January 2, 1951

I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

When I decided to write a novel about Istanbul, I thought I should put the different faces of Istanbul into one book. I also put the characters in a cell, and it's three stories underground, rather than on the surface. The characters have one Istanbul, the other one is above ground. One is in dark, one is in light. That kind of contradiction - those opposite sides - creates a great energy in Istanbul.

Burhan Sonmez

Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.

Jim Gerlach

If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.

John McCarthy

The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.

Henri Pirenne

I'm embracing what I have. I'm a curvier bombshell with big boobs. I'm not high-fashion. I don't do runway. You won't see me at Fashion Week.

Charlotte McKinney

Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus.

Edmondo De Amicis

There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early experience, in 1936, when a fellow naval officer, Philippe Tailliez, gave him goggles to see below the Mediterranean Sea surface.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

The Black Sea is Eastern Europe's counterpart to the Mediterranean.

Norman Davies

If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry.

C. S. Lewis

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

Hayley Williams

The north coast of Brittany is eaten into bays from which the sea retreats to considerable distances, and is fringed with reefs and islands. It is a favourite resort of Parisians throughout its stretch, from Dinard to Plestin.

Sabine Baring-Gould

I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation. I do think there's some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.