Quotes by Venice To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius. Alexander Herzen venice genius cities I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach Amber Tamblyn venice beach long Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the sudden sound when they all rise together, frightened away, is like the sound of giant sails flapping. Anais Nin venice sound together 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 venice moving firsts Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny. Anthony Horowitz your-destiny venice destiny 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. Antoine Predock venice energy america This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place. Arnold Schwarzenegger venice feels A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. Arthur Symons venice realist saws I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found. Arthur Symons venice dream impossible I have no idea what a high school party looks like. I was just with my friend, and we were walking down Venice and there was this gathering of people playing Bongo drums, and so after dinner we sat down with them and played Bongo drums for a while. That's the closest thing I've gotten to a high school experience, meeting strangers and just hanging out with them. Ashley Rickards venice party school In memory Venice is always magic. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison venice magic memories Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television. Barbet Schroeder venice needed television My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson. Ben van Berkel venice cities mother I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. Id go out with a board under my arm and think, I cant do that in Cranhill. Billy Boyd venice beach thinking 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 venice new-orleans years When you come to Venice, you do special work. Bruce Paltrow venice special Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap! Camryn Manheim venice crafts pockets 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 venice apollo beach I also want to raise the possibility that there are, in the very long term, "virtue effects" in economics- for instance that widespread corrupt accounting will eventually create bad long term consequences as a sort of obverse effect from the virtue-based boost double-entry book-keeping gave to the heyday of Venice. I suggest that when the financial scene starts reminding you of Sodomand Gomorrah, you should fear practical consequences even if you like to participate in what is going on. Charlie Munger venice long book To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights of imagination as it enters and inhabits other lives across time and gender. The glittering, fetid city emerges as a complex metaphor for the human heart’s simultaneous tenderness and capacity for cruelty, its ‘silver glow / a local specialty: filth / disguised as ornament.’ This Venice is unforgettable. Chase Twichell venice cities heart 12345678»