American history Quote by Liam Neeson

Venice is a place where the past is still hanging around, waiting for an appointment with the future; but the future hasn't shown up.…

— Jack Smith

Venice is a place that is high on reinvention. The kind of place that you can go and be whoever it is you want…

— Will Arnett

...the tourist Venice is Venice.

— Mary McCarthy

Venice is unlike any other city simply because you travel primarily by boat. Time warps, and I love the feeling of it slowing down.

— Stacy Martin

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

— Mary Augusta Ward

Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial…

— Joseph Kanon

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight.

— Madame de Stael

Venice is like doing acid. If you can't take it with you after you either come down or move away, you were never really…

— Anne Alexander

Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted power… It…

— Fritz Leiber

Italy will start the future. Because in the last 20, 20 years, Italy discussed only about the past. "Oh, the past is wonderful in…

— Matteo Renzi

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

— Evelyn Waugh

... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so many pictures…

— Christian Boltanski