Quotes of: Villages Keyword

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

Sharon Olds

Kurtz: We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig... cow after cow... village after village... army after army...

Apocalypse Now

Better an ugly duckling from your own village than a beauty from foreign parts.

Romanian

Though the people of this modest village were not accustomed to seeing such barbaric men as Varg, it was his inhuman features that had the citizens of Fellenshire Village on edge. Not only was Varg's hair whiter than an old wise man's beard, but he w...

The White Wolf

But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.

Crown Duel

The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.

The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century

Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.

Bringing Progress to Paradise: What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal

Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

[Villagers tell Chris they collected everything of value in their village to hire gunmen] Chris Adams: I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.

The Magnificent Seven

I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.

Richard Dawkins

'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension...

Katori Hall

Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

Everybody is waiting for cooler weather--and I am just waiting for you--. (Bob Dylan in a letter)

A Freewheelin' Time: Greenwich Village in the Sixties, Bob Dylan and Me

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

Lisa See

For instance, some early ideas for Florida were done only recently. The idea of a little village was there from the beginning and now we have this 'Celebration' village. Same thing for the Disney Institute. Walt talked about this idea in the very fir...

John Hench

We live in a global village, Neel, where billions of voices babble simultaneously, and in this village a new hierarchy is being established, a new caste-system is being created. Only this time, it is money that sets the tone. Whoever has the most mon...

The Death of Mitali Dotto

Thank you,” Simon said. “It’s a joke, Isabelle. He’s the Count. He likes counting. You know. ‘What did the Count eat today, children? One chocolate chip cookie, two chocolate chip cookies, three chocolate chip cookies . . .’” There was ...

City of Fallen Angels

For our sins God has created three enemies for us: mice in the house, the fox in the mountains, and a priest in our village.

South American

There is only one thing left for you to do,” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.

Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960

As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia 1910-1960