Venice Quotes · Page 5

“From my first sighting, I fall in immediate and passionate love with Venice.”

— Mackenzi Lee

I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area.

— Denis Leary

I was at Venice Beach for... what was the serial there, 'Baywatch?' And it was amazing.

— Luka Doncic

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

— William Shakespeare

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

— Roger Ebert

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.

— Frida Giannini

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

— Cornelia Funke

When I think of Venice Beach, my father's painting is what comes to mind.

— Ron Mael

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

— Maria Grazia Swan

I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each…

— Frances Mayes

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do…

— Billy Boyd

Most municipalities grow up around commerce; there's a harbor, or the train stops there. Venice, CA was founded for fun.

— Orson Bean

When I went to Europe for the first time, I went to Paris and then to Venice. So after Paris, Venice was…

— James Ivory

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian…

— Evelyn Waugh

Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in…

— Erica Jong

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and…

— Mary Augusta Ward

It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein…

— Walter Savage Landor

As I read Mann in German for the first time, the full achievement - both literary and philosophical - of Death in…

— Philip Kitcher

“Venice developed a merchant culture and, with the best transportation technology of the day, grew wealthy on the basis of trade. Ultimately,…

— Edward A. Hudson

Part of my methodological approach is made explicit when I discuss ways in which literature can have philosophical significance. Literature doesn't typically…

— Philip Kitcher

At 6 p.m. I stood in the doorway of my studio facing the Venice boardwalk. A few spectators watched as I pushed…

— Chris Burden

If every museum in the New World were emptied, if every famous building in the Old World were destroyed and only Venice…

— Evelyn Waugh

Do all men kill the things they do not love …… The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth as the…

— William Shakespeare

Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat…

— William Shakespeare

“Portia we can admire because, having seen her leave her Earthly Paradise to do a good deed in this world (one notices,…

— W.H. Auden

“ The Venetian Republic Venice, the island city, did not exist during the height of the Roman Empire. But by 1100, it…

— Jean F. Blashfield

On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,'…

— Niccolo Paganini

“Maybe I had been making a greater monster of him than he really was, or maybe I was still under his influence,…

— Melika Dannese Lux

“The experts are right, he thought. Venice is sinking. The whole city is slowly dying. One day the tourists will travel here…

— Daphne du Maurier

I intend Deaths in Venice to contribute both to literary criticism and to philosophy. But it's not "strict philosophy" in the sense…

— Philip Kitcher

“Venice, ruled by a Council of Ten for 500 years, has a history of secretive government by a cosy nexus of political…

— Anonymous

This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.

— Arthur Symons

Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.

— Ulysses S. Grant

If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.

— Fran Lebowitz

I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James.

— Stephen Greenblatt

“Venice never looks lovelier than when you're using it to dispose of a body.”

— Joe Schreiber

Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice.

— Rosecrans Baldwin

If it was not for this Rick Owens, I would still be in Venice, California.

— Michele Lamy

I played Shylock in my school's staging of 'Merchant of Venice.'

— Ayushmann Khurrana