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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. — John Cusack

If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing. — Nile Rodgers

Coming to Hollywood at 19 and living in a single apartment with one other guy on Venice Beach was a massive contrast to my upbringing. — David A.R. White

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil. — William Shakespeare

Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to. — Billy Tauzin

Kristina has been to the Maldives but never to Venice, and I have been to Venice but never to the Maldives. — Roger Moore

Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television. — Barbet Schroeder

But Venice, like Oxford, had kept the background for romance, and, to the true romantic, background was everything, or almost everything. — Oscar Wilde

Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. — William Shakespeare

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival. — Robert Englund

Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny. — Anthony Horowitz

Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception. — Liam Neeson

I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip — William Shakespeare

Well, most of us think the "Merchant of Venice" is a porno script. On a more personal note, I've decided on pizza for dinner. — Jaye Frances

The Pillar of Darkness has been a horror confined to Venice, which seemed - to the Paduans at least - a natural setting for horrors. — Susanna Clarke

His clothing marked him as Italian. The cadence of his speech announced that he was Venetian. His eyes were all policeman. — Donna Leon

I have written movies that won prizes at Cannes and Venice. — Luciano Vincenzoni

When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice' — Friedrich Nietzsche

But love is blind and lovers cannot see — William Shakespeare

The glassmakers had brought a new source of wealth to Venice, but they had also brought the less appealing habit of burning down the neighborhood. — Steven Johnson

I used to be a street performer, and performances on Venice Beach, it's like playing the Apollo: They let you know if they don't like you! — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

If there was no Hollywood, no next movie, no deal at Warner Brothers, no place in Malibu or Venice, I would still be really happy. — Susan Downey

Venice never looks lovelier than when you're using it to dispose of a body. — Joe Schreiber

The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly
perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, stingless. — Evelyn Waugh

I am like a caricature of myself, and I like that. It is like a mask. And for me the Carnival of Venice lasts all year long. — Karl Lagerfeld

In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome. — George William Curtis

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice? — William Dean Howells

Venice once was dear,
The pleasant place of all festivity,
The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy. — Lord Byron

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. — Arthur Symons

Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees ... — Hilda Doolittle

furniture polish: 16 parts beeswax, 4 parts resin, 1 part Venice turpentine, — Donna Tartt

Venice the peaceful demands Venice the just. — Sarah Dunant

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 there in the first place. — Anne Alexander

I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701. — Tanith Lee

Streets flooded. Please advise. — Robert Benchley

I knew suddenly that I could not endure another week in Venice, not another day of their gentle melancholy, not another hour of fashionable despair. — Bruce Sterling

Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go. — Truman Capote

If there were not a bridge from Venice to Europe, Europe would be an island — John Berendt

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. — William Shakespeare

The tourist Venice is Venice. — Mary McCarthy

Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice. — Rosecrans Baldwin

I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice. — Gore Vidal

[On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola. — Sylvia Pankhurst

You can see darn near anything just by walking along the beachfront from Venice to Malibu. — Del Howison

You know, Guido, at times I find it difficult to believe you do the sort of work you do. (Medical examiner's view of Commissario Guido Brunetti) — Donna Leon

To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal. — Lilian Whiting

Anywhere you want. Any time you want. One condition - it has to be amazing. — Toby Whithouse

When you come to Venice, you do special work. — Bruce Paltrow

In memory Venice is always magic. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I shall be an Attila to Venice. — Napoleon Bonaparte

I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California. — Eleanor Coppola

I am never merry when I hear sweet music. — William Shakespeare

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. — Lord Byron

I love Santa Monica and Venice because I like the beach. I have a lot of friends in that area. — Denis Leary

I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and cook dinner. — Ben Savage

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach. — Amber Tamblyn

The trouble is, walking in Venice becomes compulsive once you start. Just over the next bridge, you say, and then the next one beckons. — Daphne Du Maurier

This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

If anything can rival Venice in its beauty, it must be its reflection at sunset in the Grand Canal. — Peggy Guggenheim

I like fire and water. You are lucky to have both right here."
From " Desperate Pursuit in Venice" Chapter Two. Kataryna's response to Luca. — Karynne Summars

The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground. — William Shakespeare

You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live — William Shakespeare

Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure. — Peggy Guggenheim

These blessed candles of the night. — William Shakespeare

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone. — Erica Jong

Like Venice, Italy, this is a place of fleeting beauty. The knowledge that we won't be here long gives everyone an intense appetite for living. — Andrei Codrescu

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. — William Shakespeare

hold of it. I'd also confront her about preying on poor old Morty. I took the Venice Boulevard exit — Mary Marks

Getting lost is the only place worth going to. — Tiziano Scarpa

Look how the floor of heaven is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold! — William Shakespeare

They are shooting The Thief Lord in Venice at the moment. — Cornelia Funke

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me. — William Shakespeare

Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water. — Frida Giannini

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write. — Pontus Hulten

Now, infidel, I have you on the hip! — William Shakespeare

Three to four times a week, I get up at 7:30 A.M. while the courts are empty at Venice Beach and play full court one-on-one. — Missy Peregrym

We're not just making 'Marco Polo,' we're living it. Because we traveled to Venice ... Kazakhstan ... into the jungles of Malaysia. — John Fusco

I cannot write about Venice; I can only write about me, and the sleeping parts of myself that Venice has shocked into wakefulness. — Jessica Zafra

Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap! — Camryn Manheim

Venice, as a city, was a foundling, floating upon the waters like Moses in his basket among the bulrushes. — Mary McCarthy

Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere. — Penelope Gilliatt

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. — Ray Bradbury

Venice astonishes more than it pleases at first sight ... — Madame De Stael

If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better. — Fran Lebowitz

They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. — William Shakespeare

I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots. — William Shakespeare

Living at Venice is like a Journey to the Moon somehow....And a sweet Planet it is! — Hester Lynch Piozzi

To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster. — Marion Davies

At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury. — James Gray

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. — William Shakespeare

Venice is a stage, Orelia. Pretend for no other reason than to act like everybody else. — Kylie Fornasier

Whom" may indeed be on the way out, but so is Venice, and we still like to go there. — Mary Norris

Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall. — Jerry Saltz

I'll go to Venice and drown my sorrows. — Maureen Johnson

Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them ... — Ray Bradbury

Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor. — Douglas Coupland

I'm feeling full of tiny princes, bustling to get out into the world and start plotting against one another. — Christopher Moore

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The two had been together since they were little girls, and so loved and hated each other like sisters. — Christopher Moore

A splendour of miscellaneous spirits. — John Ruskin