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  • The flat sound of my wooden clogs on the cobblestones, deep, hollow and powerful, is the note I seek in my painting.

    Naomi E. Maurer, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin (1998). “The Pursuit of Spiritual Wisdom: The Thought and Art of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin”, p.119, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city as the cobblestone streets and the steel mills, people in this town expect an honest day's work, and I've it to them for a long, long time.

    Real   Cities   Long  
  • When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.

    Beach   Turtles   Sea  
  • The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the cobblestones from which we build roads of analysis, mosaic tiles that we fit together to compose pictures of past and present. There will be disagreement about where the road leads and what reality or truth is revealed by the mosaic picture. The facts themselves must be checked against all the available evidence. But some are round and hard--and the most powerful leaders in the world can trip over them. So can writers, dissidents and saints.

    Jobs   Powerful   Reality  
  • In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.

    Block   Taken   Artist  
  • When Christian pushes into the brick wall of the building catty-corner to the rear of BB&B—first left on the Dark Zone side—and disappears, I melt down in a fit of the giggles. I toss a rock at the spot where he vanished. It bounces off the brick and clatters to the cobblestone. I'm feeling twenty shades of Harry Potter's train station, especially when he pokes his head out of the wall and says impatiently, "Come on, lass. This is hardly my favorite place to be.

    Christian   Wall   Dark  
  • In Sweeden every city looks the same. I've been to sixteen cities, and every single city is the same! The same cobblestone, the same McDonalds, the same everything. Everything was designed by the same guy. They must have saved a lot of money when they designed all the cities.

    Mcdonalds   Cities   Guy  
    Source: rocksucker.co.uk
  • And before long , the msuic , the views rushing past the window , my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into one , and it seemed to me that while we would never find answers to these fundamental questions , it was good for us to ask them anyway . pg. 284

    Father   Past   Views  
    Orhan Pamuk (2017). “Istanbul (Deluxe Edition): Memories and the City”, p.366, Knopf
  • Must’ve been hard on your mom,” Frank said. “I guess we’ll do anything for someone we love.” Hazel squeezed his hand appreciatively. Nico stared at the cobblestones. “Yeah,” he said bitterly. “I guess we will.

    Mom   Hands   Cobblestone  
  • Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.

    Summer   Fall   Autumn  
    Charles Baudelaire, “Chant D'Automne (Song Of Autumn)”
  • We are planes, trains, and automobiles, and we're always hauling stuff up these tiny cobblestone streets, so the more mobile you are, the better.

    Source: www.glamour.com
  • His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

    Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • My wit is more polished than your mustache. The truth which I speak strikes more sparks from men's hearts than your spurs do from the cobblestones.

    Heart   Men   Mustache  
    Edmond Rostand (1995). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, Talonbooks Limited
  • Galladon paused for a moment, then laughed. "Does nothing frighten you, sule?" "Actually, pretty much everything here does—I'm just good at ignoring the fact that I'm terrified. If I ever realize how scared I am, you'll probably find me trying to hide under those cobblestones over there.

    Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.42, Macmillan
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