Quotes About Seville

#1. Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.

Anatoly Karpov

#2. Many of us can't go home again, whether home is Seville, Cabo Sur, Nastas, Havana, or Kansas City. Thus, we must recognize that home really lies in the eternal peace, dormant or conscious, that dwells in each human heart ... Quote from "Ms. Quixote Goes Country", a truthful novel.

LEVega

#3. I visited Eduardo Miura's ranch in Seville where he raised bulls for bullfighting, and I was so impressed that by the time I got home I had already selected my future emblem.

Ferruccio Lamborghini

#4. People in Seville are very happy, the lifestyle here is very relaxed, you can walk everywhere; it's very easy.

Paz Vega

#5. To be here, is a dream come true. A dream is something that you set for yourself, not what other people set for you. When I qualified in Seville I burst into tears. I couldn't believe that I was going to the Olympic Games.

Natalie Du Toit

#6. "Thanks be to God," says the Admiral, "the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is."

Christopher Columbus

#7. The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.

Christopher Columbus

#8. It may take a lifetime for an individual to live, but it takes just under four seconds for the occupants of the Seville to live a collective life.

Bradley Somer

#9. There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.

Hernan Cortes

#10. Bullfighters are Seville's heroes.

Paz Vega

#11. A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?

Bertrand Russell

#12. Seville is a tower full of fine archers ... Under the arch of the sky, across the clear plain, she shoots the constant arrow of her river.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#13. The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.

Hernan Cortes

#14. I love you. You don't have to say it back. You already said it, in so many words. But I want you to know, I want to say it, I want you to hear it and believe it.

Jane Seville

#15. You got a better word for a guy who's swept my chimney five times in one night?
-Dr. Jack Francisco

Jane Seville

#16. D stared out the window, shoving down the feeling that it might be real nice to sit here and tell Jack Francisco everything about himself, confess things he'd never told nobody, just to feel like somebody cared, and to keep those big blue eyes fixed on him for as long as he could.

Jane Seville

#17. Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

Isidore Of Seville

#18. Feelings come in packs, D. Let one loose and they all want to run together.

Jane Seville

#19. Baptism is not the work of man but of Christ, and this sacrament is so holy that it would not be defiled, even if the minister were a murderer.

Isidore Of Seville

#20. The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.

Isidore Of Seville

#21. And how do you really feel?
Like I'll never recover. Like I'll never draw another breath without half of it being a wish for him.

Jane Seville

#22. If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.

Isidore Of Seville

#23. This ain't Halloween." he said.
"What's that mean?"
"Means I ain't sharin' my candy.

Jane Seville

#24. Jack felt arousal spiking through him, clouding his mind with the wanting, wanting this man, all of him, black and tarry, rotted with disuse, glorious and fractured and spilling out of the cracks.

Jane Seville

#25. Stud," D repeated, growly and low. Jack snorted. "You got a better word for a guy who's swept my chimney five times in one night?

Jane Seville

#26. Teaching unsupported by grace may enter our ears, but it never reaches the heart. When God's grace does touch our innermost minds to bring understanding, then his word, which is received by the ear, can sink deep into the heart.

Isidore Of Seville

#27. X? Seriously? What, do you meet them in darkened parking garages? Do you have a Bat-Signal or something?

Jane Seville

#28. D, I have known a lot of men in my time,
queer and straight, and I think I can state with some
confidence that you are as gay as a spring parade." ~ Jack

Jane Seville

#29. Get over here. We're having intimate bed conversation and I won't do it with a foot of mattress between us.

Jane Seville

#30. Jack laughed, a quick, surprised chuckle. God, all I wanted these past months was the chance for you to get on my nerves.

Jane Seville

#31. Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading.

Isidore Of Seville

#32. Swept yer chimney!" D howled. "Aw shit, that is fuckin' rich!

Jane Seville

#33. Okay. He let his eyes close and it was a relief; not just of relief of minutes, but of years.

Jane Seville

#34. Shush. I don't care if you're damaged, or if you're not strong inside. Guess what? Nobody is. Whatever you have left is enough.

Jane Seville

#35. In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the contemplative life a man may, with now purified mental gaze, pass on to the contemplation of the Divine Light.

Isidore Of Seville

#36. Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.

Isidore Of Seville

#37. Tshe suffering of adversity does not degrade you but exalts you. Human tribulation teaches you; it does not destroy you. The more we are afflicted in this world, the greater is our assurance for the next. The more we sorrow in the present, ..the greater will be our joy in the future.

Isidore Of Seville

#38. Found out that his life didn't have to follow the rules,
and they both found out that love is a pain in the ass.

Jane Seville

#39. D drew back and took Jack's face in his hands. "I'll find you. You hear me?" Jack nodded, a lump rising in his throat. "I'll find you.

Jane Seville

#40. He stood before the door, feeling uncharacteristically nervous. Hi. Uh ... how are ya?
No, no.
Hello, Jack. I'm back.
Shit, that fuckin' rhymes. Sounds like fuckin' Sesame Street.
Hi there. Off with yer clothes.
Nothin' like gettin' right ta the point, huh?

Jane Seville

#41. Check if anyone's following us," HAL said from the backseat. "How do I know that?" "Uh ... look in the rearview mirror.

Jane Seville

#42. Saw you out there in the garden. Looked so damn ... fine," he said, quietly. "Was like I hadta have ya, right then. Bubbled up like ... I dunno, puke or somethin'." Jack chuckled. "You sure have a way with words, D.

Jane Seville

#43. He's freaked out. The bullets and the near-assassination and the fiery gas stations were okay, but the hand-holding freaked him out.

Jane Seville

#44. Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.

Isidore Of Seville

#45. Close enough to fuck was close enough to shank him with a dagger hidden in the crease of some chick's jean shorts.

Jane Seville

#46. Mary means enlightener, because She brought forth the Light of the world. In the Syriac tongue, Mary signifies Lady.

Isidore Of Seville

#47. No, Jack, we cain't sneak by. These aren't movie bad guys who don't got no peripheral vision and we can just slip past while they're lookin' the other way. You want yer life, you gotta fuckin' take it.

Jane Seville

#48. Maybe I could be a ninja assassin too, Jack thought.

Jane Seville

#49. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Isidore Of Seville

#50. War with vices, but peace with individuals.

Isidore Of Seville

#51. Jack is somewhere in this city, right now.
The thought was like passing by a house where someone was grilling in the back yard. You could smell it, but it wasn't yours, and you couldn't just barge into their home and demand a burger, no matter how your mouth watered.

Jane Seville