Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rodriguez

If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles.

William Cowper

Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

Saul Bellow

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

Joseph Addison

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

Pierre Corneille

Rome alone can resist Rome.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

Les Wexner

Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.

Richelle Mead

We cannot road trip to Paris.

Woody Allen

Paris is a very exciting city. I learned about Paris the same way that Americans do: from the movies.

Rebecca Romijn

Living in Paris was a crash course in chic.

Robert Delaunay

It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

Willa Cather

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

Twiggy

I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.

Washington Irving

Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature.

Rick Riordan

Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris. "Yeah, here's a rare grocery list," Dan muttered. "Wow.

Robert Thompson

If you're a U.S. senator and your sex tape is leaked, it could end your career. If you're Paris Hilton, it makes your career.

Robin Quivers

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

Mahatma Gandhi

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

Matt Groening

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

Muammar al-Gaddafi

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Sharon Olds

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

Paul McCartney

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

Brian Johnson

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

Diane Abbott

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

Adolph Green

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.