Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

The difficulty is to know conscience from self interest.

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

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

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

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

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

Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before.

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

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

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

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

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.

As many times as I've seen 'The Merchant of Venice,' I always take Shylock's side. For all the hatred that guy is shown, he has a reason to hate in return. He's treated cruelly. And it's tragic that he learns to be intolerant because of what others do to him.

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.

Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful.

I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.

I haven't read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare - except 'The Merchant of Venice' in ninth grade. I'm not familiar with 'Death of a Salesman.' I haven't read Tennessee Williams.

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.

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

Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn't have Rome. We wouldn't have Florence. We wouldn't have the marvel that is Venice.

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.

Still teenagers, Harry and Peter Brant II have never disappointed when I've seen them out and about in New York, Paris, and Venice (Which is where all schoolkids go on field trips, right?) They're not afraid of wearing brooches, capes, embroidery, and even a dab-bing of makeup.

Venice is a place that is high on reinvention. The kind of place that you can go and be whoever it is you want to be and do whatever it is you want to do, and nobody's really going to ask you a lot of questions about it.