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