Top Venice Quotes Collection
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Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But he made me audition. I was like: "Dude, I don't even want to do this..." So I left the casting of Hostel: Part II to drive to Venice, where Quentin was holding his casting, and the person ahead of me was Derek Richardson from Hostel 1 and he was like: "Dude, what are you doing here?" I said: "Don't ask!"Collection: Venice
Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.Collection: Venice
Wherever you go in life, you will feel somewhere over your shoulder a pink, castellated shimmering presence, the domes and riggings and crooked pinacles of the SerenissimaCollection: Venice
The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry into the matter, and apprehend such as they might deem obnoxious persons.Collection: Venice
City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!Collection: Venice
It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be made of any size desired, or else for convenience... so that they can be sent anywhere with very little trouble and expense.Collection: Venice
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.Collection: Venice
Venice is not only a city of fantasy and freedom. It is also a city of joy and pleasure.Collection: Venice
When you come to Venice, you do special work.Collection: Venice
This is the end. This is as far as you can go. After this it all starts over again.Collection: Venice
Prague is like a vertical Venice steps everywhere.Collection: Venice
Street performers, homemade crafts, keep your wallet in your front pocket and don't buy any crap!Collection: Venice
The collages I never wanted to sell. I thought it was a very private thing, so I kept the collages. Then, in the end, I had a big collage in the Pinault Collection in Venice and the director of the [Centre] Pompidou said, "Did you make big collages like this in the '60s?" I said yes, so he came to the studio and said, "Let's make an exhibition in the Pompidou."Collection: Venice
...Venice has been the living future of contemporary American history since its inception.Collection: Venice
In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.Collection: Venice
The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.Collection: Venice
This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place.Collection: Venice
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.Collection: Venice
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.Collection: Venice
Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.Collection: Venice
The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground.Collection: Venice
He is well paid that is well satisfied.Collection: Venice
A splendour of miscellaneous spirits.Collection: Venice
When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'Collection: Venice
I shall be an Attila to Venice.Collection: Venice
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.Collection: Venice
Streets flooded. Please advise.Collection: Venice
Using the Adagietto of Mahler's Fifth is one of the touches of pure genius in Visconti's film (even though Mahlerians complain very loudly that the piece has been ruined), since it corresponds perfectly to Aschenbach's yearnings and to his circling walks around Venice.Collection: Venice
The classical allusions and the Platonic disquisitions on beauty are no longer a form of cover, but integral to Aschenbach's complex sexuality. Moreover, the wandering around Venice in pursuit of Tadzio isn't a prelude to some sexual contact for which Aschenbach is yearning.Collection: Venice
Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.Collection: Venice
I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.Collection: Venice
If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.Collection: Venice
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.Collection: Venice
...the tourist Venice is Venice.Collection: Venice