Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time… — Albert Ayler Copy Share Image
The vast majority of local people will neither know all of the initiatives nor have any perception that the individual elements are… — Paul Burrell Copy Share Image
One of the greatest problems for international journalists covering the Middle East is that people who serve as guides for journalists are… — Caroline Glick Copy Share Image
Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation:… — Jeffrey Zeldman Copy Share Image
As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
If a candidate for president said he believed that space aliens dwell among us, would that affect your willingness to vote for… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
Las Vegas doesn't allow ( tourism ) to dictate the social norms of their community. We don't have to be a boring… — Eric Thomas 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
A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the… — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Bout time," she huffed, but her voice sounded thick and emotional too."I was at the hospital all day yesterday, but they wouldn't… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I had, toward the last, been shut off from all visitors, and so when the lawyer, Peter A. Hendricks, came and told… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor… — Scott Spencer Copy Share Image
While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area… — Howard Zahniser Copy Share Image
Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image