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
He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“His clothing marked him as Italian. The cadence of his speech announced that he was Venetian. His eyes were all policeman.” — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or… — Ben Savage 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
“Local fog in Venice has a name: nebbia. It obliterates all reflections ... and everything that has a shape: buildings, people, colonnades,… — Joseph Brodsky 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
All of Vegas is false. There's a false Paris, a false Venice, a false Baghdad - in fact, all of the early… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
“It's temples and palaces did seem Like fabrics of enchantment pil'd to heaven.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola. — Sylvia Pankhurst 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
“I've always preferred the city at night. I believe that San Judas, or any city, belongs to the people who sleep there.… — Tad Williams 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
Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
'A Small Band' was commissioned for the facade of the Central Pavilion at the Fifty-Sixth Venice Biennale in 2013. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“I don't know why--there are no brick gables,' said Mrs. Prest, 'but this corner has seemed to me before more Dutch than… — Henry James Copy Share Image
This is the end. This is as far as you can go. After this it all starts over again. — Tony Hendra Copy Share Image
As many times as I've seen 'The Merchant of Venice,' I always take Shylock's side. For all the hatred that guy is… — John Irving 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
There are two Venices I know about and one of them is a hotel in Vegas. The other is an L.A. beach… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image