Taormina Quotes

few ancient libraries ever unearthed, in Taormina in Sicily, a combination of advertisement and library catalogue.

«Seremos», repitió Laura en silencio. Kenneth formaba parte del Taormina, jamás sería feliz lejos de allí, ni ella lejos de él. Ese era su sitio y el de ella también. Inspiró profundamente y alzó la barbilla para armarse de valor. —Al diablo las empresas serias, el miedo al futuro y las palabras que no se pueden pronunciar. ¡Cásate conmigo! Kenneth no movió ni un músculo. Segundos después giró para quedar cara a cara, con un ademán tan elegante que a Laura se le agitó la respiración. —Esa frase es mía —dijo con calma. Ella lo miraba desconcertada—. Me refiero a la última, eso me corresponde preguntarlo a mí. La voluminosa presencia del persistente cabecilla se aproximó con paso enérgico. —Oiga, el alcalde ¿va a salir o no? —preguntó con los brazos en jarras. —¿Es que no se puede tener ni un minuto de intimidad? —se revolvió Kenneth indignado—. Mi chica me está pidiendo que me case con ella.

British Spitfires, using signals intelligence to pinpoint the German Luftwaffe headquarters, shot up the San Domenico Palace—a grand hotel in Taormina, once favored by D. H. Lawrence—and unhinged the Axis air defenses just as invaders approached the island. Little

Taormina sits on a natural platform above the coast, its small streets and tiny staircases climbing to the summit of Mount Tauro, where an ancient Greek theater looks out across the sea. Stunning views aside, its coral-colored stone houses with wrought-iron balconies climb above elegant piazzas lined with cafés and filled with people. Deep green bushes with their bright pink flowers seem to grow everywhere, straight from the baking-hot stone. The town is beautiful, the pearl of the Ionian Sea, recently made famous by the show The White Lotus.

Sicily--- Oranges, pistachios, and/or aubergine. Sicilian food a product of immense, diverse history. Have sardines! Try the orange cake. You'll find it all over, but there used to be a good one in Taormina. I shake my head in amazement. Somehow, it feels like Dad had been quietly guiding me. Tuscany--- Wild boar is good but tomatoes are better. Nothing else! Please say something with Chiara's tomatoes. I want to help her. Farm is a century old and sells some obscure varieties. Tomato salads, tomato bread soup, panzanella. And here too, Leo and I had organically found the path my father laid out for us. The notes on Liguria are less specific, but when I read his scrawled handwriting, I smile to myself. Liguria--- Was thinking about beans, but basil a good opinion. Oh boy, I cannot wait to show that note to Leo. Basil a good option! Leo. I sit and write with an open heart, not shying away from treacly memories of cut oranges shared in the sea. Pushing my cynicism to the side and allowing the love I have for food, for Italy, for my father, to run from my heart down my veins to my fingers and onto the page.

I said Sicilians, I should have added Sicily, the atmosphere, the climate, the landscape of Sicily. Those are the forces which have formed our minds together with and perhaps more than foreign dominations and ill-assorted rapes; this landscape which knows no mean between sensuous slackness and hellish drought; which is never petty, never ordinary, never relaxed, as a country made for rational beings to live in should be; this country of ours in which the inferno around Randazzo is a few miles from the loveliness of Taormina Bay; this climate which inflicts us with six feverish months at a temperature of a hundred and four;

Ahead of Trump’s first major summit with foreign counterparts, the May 2017 Group of Seven gathering in Taormina, Sicily, Trump’s advisers offered the other governments damage-control tips: don’t be patronizing to Trump, and sprinkle in compliments of him. “It was all advice on how to handle a difficult teenager—a very sensitive, touchy teenager,” Araud recalled. “So you have six adults trying not to excite him, and they are facing somebody who has no restraint and no limits.

I’VE MADE A BOLD CLAIM that pull mechanics and a feel for the water are the vital elements in our sport.

To master a feel for the water, the key is to be patient at the beginning of the propulsive action so you can build speed for the finish. The back half is

When Lawrence came to Taormina, Verga was living in Catania, a few miles further down the eastern Sicilian coast, and in the autumn of 1921, when his writings first attracted Lawrence’s attention, he was an octogenarian with only a few months left to live. Shortly after Verga’s death in January 1922, Lawrence wrote to a correspondent in New York that ‘Poor old Verga went and died exactly as I was going to see him in Catania. But he was 82 years old.