Quotes of: Venice Keyword

Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives.

Roger Moore

Could any State on Earth Immortall be, Venice by Her rare Goverment is She; Venice Great Neptunes Minion, still a Mayd, Though by the warrlikst Potentats assayed; Yet She retaines Her Virgin-waters pure, Nor any Forren mixtures can endure; Though, Sy...

S.P.Q.V.: a survay of the signorie of Venice

Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in ...

The Magus

Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]

Death Under the Venice Moon

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

The Starry Messenger, Venice 1610: "From Doubt to Astonishment"

Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.

Death in Venice and Other Tales

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

Death in Venice and Other Tales

I cannot write about Venice; I can only write about me, and the sleeping parts of myself that Venice has shocked into wakefulness.

Twisted Travels

Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella's son catches on!]

Death Under the Venice Moon

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Death in Venice and Other Tales

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

Death in Venice and Other Tales

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations

He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.

Death in Venice and Other Tales

I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-old...

Ethan Hawke

The people had once created the city. The city now created the people, or, more exactly, the people of Venice now identified themselves more in terms of the city. The private had become public.

Venice: Pure City

Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was inclined to believe the latter. Inborn in nearly every artist’s nature is a voluptuous, treacherous tendency to accept the injustice if it creates beauty...

Death in Venice and Other Tales

People say it's not what happens in your life that matters, it's what you think happened. But this qualification, obviously, did not go far enough. It was quite possible that the central event of your life could be something that didn't happen, or so...

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

I have written movies that won prizes at Cannes and Venice.

Luciano Vincenzoni

Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwa...

Death in Venice and Other Tales

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

Robert Englund

They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment.

Cornelia Funke