If you want to go for a romantic break, or a quick break in Italy, it has to be Venice.

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

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

When I did 'Venice Dawn,' there were times where people would cry after listening to it.

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

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

I was in Venice teaching, so I reread Henry James's "The Wings of the Dove." I love James.

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

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

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

I had my dreams of Venice, but nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.

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

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

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

It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.

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

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

When I went to Venice I found that my dream had become-incredibly, but quite simply-my address.

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

The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

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

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

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

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

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

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

Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.

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

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

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

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

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

'A Small Band' was commissioned for the facade of the Central Pavilion at the Fifty-Sixth Venice Biennale in 2013.

I love to get out and see real life and to walk, which is why I love Venice so much - it's such a great walking city.

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

Venice is incredible. Although you may have seen it in pictures, you can't grasp how beautiful it is until you visit.

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.

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

Most municipalities grow up around commerce; there's a harbor, or the train stops there. Venice, CA was founded for fun.

Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!

I live in Venice, where I can roll out of bed in my pajamas, so I tend to fly under the radar - and I hope that continues.

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.'

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.

Venice Beach is incredibly quiet at night: no streetlights, no traffic, hummingbirds in the garden, palm trees everywhere.

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.

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.

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.

The irony of the political rise of the plutocrats is that, like Venice's oligarchs, they threaten the system that created them.

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.

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.

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