Venice Quotes
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Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest So wonderfully built among the reeds Of the lagoon, that fences thee and feeds, As sayeth thy old historian and thy guest! (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
The sylphs and ondines And the sea-kings and queens Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a city, As lovely as seems To some bard in his dreams, The soul of his latest love-ditty. (Quote by - Lord Lytton)
Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk. (Quote by - Lisa Bonet)
A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. (Quote by - Arthur Symons)
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town. (Quote by - James Weldon Johnson)
I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival. (Quote by - Robert Englund)
Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice? (Quote by - William Dean Howells)
Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives. (Quote by - Roger Moore)
Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before. (Quote by - Ed McMahon)
They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment. (Quote by - Cornelia Funke)
Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to. (Quote by - Billy Tauzin)
No praying, it spoils business. Venice Preserved. (Quote by - Thomas Otway)
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. (Quote by - Truman Capote)
Tell me where is fancy bred. Or in the heart or in the head? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
In the winter, Venice is like an abandoned theatre. The play is finished, but the echoes remain. (Quote by - Arbit Blatas)
Egypt's might is tumbled down Down a-down the deeps of thought; Greece is fallen and Troy town, Glorious Rome hath lost her crown, Venice' pride is nought. (Quote by - Mary Coleridge)
If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is -- Venice is better. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
He speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them; and when you have them, they are not worth the search. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. (Quote by - Henry James)
Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere. (Quote by - Penelope Gilliatt)
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; / A palace and a prison on each hand. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
All those who are using Venice for their own interests must make a contribution to preserve the myth, (Quote by - Paolo Costa)
We played the way Venice High is supposed to play. Even if we would have lost tonight, I still would have been proud of the way we played. (Quote by - Craig Faulkner)
This might be the best thing that ever happened to Venice as a 3-10 team in the district almost beat them. (Quote by - Larry Peterson)
Yes he did, Scooter -- just look in the Pitcher of Venice and you'll see that exact quote. (Quote by - Fran Healy)
Everybody has an idea of where they're going to be. With the exception of North Port, Venice and some of the Booker kids, this a good half of the district field. (Quote by - Jack Walters)
The three favorites of the district, as I was told when I took the job, are Venice, Port Charlotte and Lakewood Ranch. (Quote by - Rick Bohlander)
Our philosophy is to work hard and that's all we know how to do. We played Venice baseball like it's supposed to be played. (Quote by - Craig Faulkner)
If Venice sinks, the collection should be preserved somewhere in the vicinity of Venice. (Quote by - Peggy Guggenheim)
I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701. (Quote by - Tanith Lee)
Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial centers, you would have had a much more active political constituency. Venice essentially lived for itself. (Quote by - Joseph Kanon)
Venice can become the place for confirming the importance of seven new directors that are now becoming, for everybody, the most important contemporary directors. (Quote by - Marco Muller)
We went to Paris and Pisa and Venice and Florence, all over Europe. The first few months were hard, but it was a good experience for the kids. (Quote by - Martin Gelinas)
You could have, with organization, done interiors in a different place and done exteriors in Venice, but it would have felt much more staged, theatrical, and these are things that were against it coming alive. (Quote by - Lasse Hallstrom)
Venice was a hellhole. (Quote by - Katie Arnoldi)
Venice is a zone, a modern monastic zone where the artist is secular priest. (Quote by - Tony Berlant)
Ah, Venice, where one crazy man's canal dream has spawned more California stereotypes, hack artists and hippie coffee houses than anywhere outside of Santa Cruz. (Quote by - Stephen Blackmoore)
Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy. (Quote by - Ray Bradbury)
Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them. (Quote by - Ray Bradbury)
For about 150 days a year in Venice, the sun doesn't show through the mist until noon. (Quote by - Ray Bradbury)
San Francisco may be slightly more sophisticated and cultured than Venice, but the only difference is in the apparal. The tiedye remains eternal. (Quote by - Vinnie Caggiano)
Nowadays it has become chi-chi for the smart set to roller-skate on the Ocean Front Walk in little satin shorts and to sit drinking Perrier or white wine at its sidewalk cafes, while we colorful local inhabitants continue our lives, observed. (Quote by - Patricia J. Campbell)
Venice really is amazing. It has a lot of my heart when I go around doing research. Such amazing things happen there. (Quote by - Brian Chidester)
It will always be a good time in Venice. Which is the point of the place. (Quote by - Allan Cole)
I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California. (Quote by - Eleanor Coppola)
Bohemia by the bay, paradise on the skids, a burg rife with swamis (Quote by - Ernest S. Corfine )
Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor. (Quote by - Douglas Coupland)
All this cut-price transcendentalism does not prevent California from being a startlingly physical state. This becomes most obvious where Los Angeles saunters down to the sea. The region is called Venice. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
When a guy walks up to me and starts talking and I turn to look at him, I can't tell if he's a millionaire or a pauper. You can't tell in Venice. (Quote by - Rip Cronk)
The situation in the film is like me going out to Venice Beach and talking to a homeless guy on the boardwalk, and 13 years later he's the president. (Quote by - John Cusack)
To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster. (Quote by - Marion Davies)
Venice Beach is a combination of the tacky, the mindless, the ironic, and the novel. (Quote by - Freelance Dionysian)
People here can go along at whatever pace makes them comfortable. (Quote by - Ed Emshwiller)
Venice is a sanctuary. (Quote by - Bob Farrington)
Anais Nin adores Venice, the refuge of poor artists, and Venice Beach with its carnival atmosphere, white sand, and the pull of the sea. (Quote by - Noel Riley Fitch)
You couldn't drive through Oakwood without feeling the currents of venom, everybody overcharged, wary, and watching, the asphalt itself vibrating with tension. (Quote by - Ruth Francisco)
Interested scholars and city officials have travelled across the country to study and attempt to understand the complex social patterns on the Venice boardwalk. (Quote by - William Franklin)
I might love a man, but I love Venice more. (Quote by - Anna Haag)
Every step in this town is a damn shame. (Quote by - John Hamilton)
Unique among the world's Bohemias (Quote by - Gordon J. Hazlitt)
This is the end. This is as far as you can go. After this it all starts over again. (Quote by - Tony Hendra looking out over the Pacific)
My experience in Venice tells me the world is starving for real art. (Quote by - David Hinnebusch)
You can see darn near anything just by walking along the beachfront from Venice to Malibu. (Quote by - Del Howison)
Venice is as far west as you can get - in every way. (Quote by - Keith Kirts)
America's smorgasbord of the rationally challenged. (Quote by - Doug Lansky)
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 is a place of dreams, not only the tinseled ones. (Quote by - Fritz Leiber)
Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception. (Quote by - Liam)
Venice West is to Los Angeles what the Left Bank once was to Paris. (Quote by - Lawrence Lipton)
The allure of Venice Beach is the relative freedom which still exists there. It doesn't have the most beautiful sand or ocean. It doesn't have anything unique except its freedom and its tradition of this freedom. (Quote by - Mark Madow)
It's America's global village - a place where the visitor becomes part of the spectrum of what is happening. It's all about sharing talents, skills, music, food and art. A message in a bottle of what California is all about. (Quote by - Marc Madow)
Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap! (Quote by - Camryn Manheim)
In all our cities there is always some sort of casbah, crumbling, decadent in the literal sense where the greatest historical distance assures the greatest unreality. (Quote by - Rich Mann)
The old Ocean Park area near the Santa Monica-Venice border and the old Venice Canal area were the world's chicest slums. (Quote by - Roy Marinell)
Venice, California, has seldom been an entirely respectable place (Quote by - John Arthur Maynard)
In its high-floating, quirky visions and stubborn, off-handed poverty, Venice was a brave and deliberate affront to an American Dream that worked. (Quote by - John Arthur Maynard)
The boardwalk is like the beating heart of America. You can be normal; you can be strange. It's so rad. (Quote by - Sean O'Keefe)
The throng is probably a modern-day equivalent of the Capernaum of Jesus's time. (Quote by - Richard Omura)
Venice Beach is the last great bastion of free speech in the world. (Quote by - Arhata Osho)
When you come to Venice, you do special work. (Quote by - Bruce Paltrow)
Men & women of venice, lovers, children, holy citizens of the heavenly city all around you there is the sweet air of love. (Quote by - Stuart Z. Perkoff)
Venice morning, oceanfront walk people of venice, smiling, sunned, enchanted venice magic dazzling eyes with world, with city with street & ocean. (Quote by - Stuart Z. Perkoff)
It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction. (Quote by - Antoine Predock)
Venice is like no place else. (Quote by - Dylan Rush)
Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television. (Quote by - Barbet Schroeder)
This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place. (Quote by - Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Nobody's out of place in Venice. (Quote by - Ronald Shusett)
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. In the meantime it is a kind of no man's land, given up by default and occupied by irregulars and their dogs. (Quote by - Jack Smith)
Time goes by, but the magic remains. (Quote by - Jim Smith)
Venice, California is known as one of the most unique, exciting and stubborn communities in the Los Angeles area. (Quote by - Professor Arnold Springer)
I don't know of any place that loves so passionately, hates so vehemently, or forgives so easily as Venice. (Quote by - Moe Stavnezer)
Venice is a transitional point, a deconditioning chamber, vitally needed for our nation's and the World's survival. (Quote by - Sweet William)
I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach. (Quote by - Amber Tamblyn)
The Venice sky is tactile. You can hold its light in your palms. (Quote by - Philomene Long Thomas)
It is pretty creepy and dirty, but it was really interesting seeing all the personalities cruising around. Everyone there wants to talk with you, but I wouldn't call it a friendly place ever - it's weird ! (Quote by - Alexis Waite)
Venice is a world view, a condition. (Quote by - Eva Windmoller)
No one wants to play at Venice Beach by themselves because then you really look like a loser. (Quote by - David Young)
In math terms I guess it could be summarized as: Venice = Noise. (Quote by - David Yurkovich)
Venice is so hip and everyone seems pretty cool. (Quote by - Rachel Mae)
Bohemian, down-at-heel Venice Beach, full of beardy, smoking hippy-types flogging funny hats, telling people's fortunes, playing languid jazz melodies or just chillin'. (Quote by - Gerry and Denise)
