Venice Quotes - Page 4

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed.

The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits and everyday sights to enter an enchanted garden.

The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly.

To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster.

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.

In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade of her pavements. Here was a dreamy stillness, a swaying, the splash of an oar. Then, when I least expected it, suddenly I stepped out into the great square, the sunlight, and she was a flock of birds scattering with soft cries in my arms.

Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.

It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be made of any size desired, or else for convenience... so that they can be sent anywhere with very little trouble and expense.

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'

Venice, the most touristy place in the world, is still just completely magic to me.

I will never forget experiencing Venice for the first time. It feels like you are transported to another time - the art, music, food and pure romance in the air is like no other place.

You can see darn near anything just by walking along the beachfront from Venice to Malibu.

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.

Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the sudden sound when they all rise together, frightened away, is like the sound of giant sails flapping.

Do all men kill the things they do not love?

If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; for when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend?

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil.

In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.

Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!