To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster. — Marion Davies Copy Share Image
If you want to go for a romantic break, or a quick break in Italy, it has to be Venice. — Gino D'Acampo Copy Share Image
To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal. — Lilian Whiting Copy Share Image
Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice? — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liquers at one go.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal. — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes. — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
“Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella's son catches on!]” — Maria Grazia Swan Copy Share Image
Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry… — John Foxe Copy Share Image
“The two had been together since they were little girls, and so loved and hated each other like sisters.” — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“I think people prefer to remember happy times, well, happier times, and if they can't remember them, then to change the memories… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so… — Christian Boltanski Copy Share Image
Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As I read Mann in German for the first time, the full achievement - both literary and philosophical - of Death in… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty,… — Veronica Franco Copy Share Image
“Because, my dear Eric, I have tasted the secret knowledge. I know how much to say and when to pull back. I… — Melika Dannese Lux Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted although married six months. Big mystery. No one… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
I traveled for seven years, and when I came back home I was completely lost. I didn't know what to do with… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
“Mestre. Say the word without hissing the conurbated villain, and pitying its citizens. As quickly as they can, two million tourists pass… — Marius Brill Copy Share Image
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area. — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
“It's temples and palaces did seem Like fabrics of enchantment pil'd to heaven.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water. — Frida Giannini Copy Share Image
I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James. — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image