Quotes About Lima Peru

#1. I can never see fashion models,
lean angular cheeks, strutting hips
and blooming hair, without thinking of
the skulls at the catacombs in Lima, Peru.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#2. I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.

Colin Powell

#3. The chalks and slates fascinated them. They yearned to hold the white sticks in their hands, make little white squiggles like the other children, draw pictures of huts, cows, goats, and flowers. It was like magic, to make things appear out of nowhere.

Rohinton Mistry

#4. High on a throne of royal state, which far

John Milton

#5. I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

Daniel Alarcon

#6. I was in Peru and visited a building near Lima built by the Incas. It was low in height, with no windows at all, but all the way in the back there was air movement. And I couldn't figure out how they'd done it; it was incredible.

Frank Gehry

#7. The masses are only to be regarded as one of three things: either as copies of great personalities, bad copies, clumsily produced in a poor material, or as foils to the great, or finally as their tools

Georg Brandes

#8. Life's a circle. There are no lines we can cross.

F.K. Preston

#9. Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Confucius

#10. I am very much about promoting Lima because I think Peru and the mountains and the Incas, everybody is aware of those, but Lima is something that people should discover - especially our food.

Mario Testino

#11. It's important for me to take very famous, well-known people and not have them play themselves and not have them be seen as themselves.

David Ayer

#12. I've always been a gurner. I tried to reel it in. You know there was a period when I thought I was going to be a really serious actress, but the gurning ... I can't get in control of it. It just runs away with me.

Michelle Gomez

#13. Failure is good as long as it doesn't become a habit.

Michael Eisner