I grew up in a village after the war, and in the village, there were almost only women. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
I'm an artist living in a small, Scottish village. So one would expect to be treated with some sort of caution. And… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
After I returned from Oxford, I spent 5-6 years in a village in Madhya Pradesh - 25 km. outside Bhopal - along… — Atishi Copy Share Image
They film 'Midsomer Murders' near our village, so we joke that if ever there was a murder we'd call for DCI Barnaby. — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
I think we've shot scenes from every angle directors can think of to make it look like different villages. I've directed a… — Vic Morrow Copy Share Image
War is a monster with snaky locks, and fiery bloodshot eyes, and harpy claws, passing over fair fields and leaving its footprints… — Moncure D. Conway Copy Share Image
I grew up in the East Village with a lot of old people in my building, and I'm not sure if they… — Sarah Hyland Copy Share Image
To Mahatma Gandhi, the key to India's progress was the development of its villages. In his unified vision, education, agriculture, village industry,… — Rajiv Gandhi Copy Share Image
In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Take vicars; there are often village vicars in 'Midsomer Murders', but the village vicar in England was killed off long ago. — John Nettles Copy Share Image
On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children… — Tama Janowitz Copy Share Image
The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day, and I have pondered much why these things were. That… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
ADAMSBERG WAS NOT A MAN WHO WENT IN FOR EMOTION: he skirted around strong feelings with caution, like swifts who only brush… — Fred Vargas Copy Share Image
The people who died in the Twin Towers in that terrible crime mattered. The people who were bombed to death in dusty… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
It was manifest to me that there was something in the Roman Catholic religion which made the priests very dear to the… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I was the first member of my family to cross into Pakistan and find his ancestral village. — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
The Dorset coast, where I spent my childhood, is a gorgeous place to run. I love to explore and revisit places like… — Freddie Fox Copy Share Image
Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street — John McCrae Copy Share Image
Being outside the candy store looking in is the state of people today. Whether you're in a Pakistani village watching somebody in… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
