Venetians Quotes

#1. Word ciao comes from. (If you must know, it's an abbreviation of a phrase used by medieval Venetians as an intimate salutation: Sono il suo schiavo! Meaning: "I am your slave!")

Elizabeth Gilbert

#2. The Jews supplied the contacts for international trade, sometimes in competition to the Venetians, the word Ghetto itself comes from the Venetians, it was an Island in the Venice lagoon, and they had their own part of Corfu town,

Maurice Price

#3. I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

Donna Leon

#4. Are you afraid a demon has escaped Hell in order to descend upon the Venetians?"

"I think there are a few who'd deserve it, but I'm also a man of science, and I believe that we all carry our own private infernos inside ourselves."

-Conversation between Majid and Mathias

Riccardo Bruni

#5. Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.

Donna Leon

#6. This soup is as cold as the sea! But he was not shouting at the soup. He was shouting at the Turks, at the Venetians, at the Austrians, at the French, and at the Serbs (if he was Croat) or at the Croats (if he was a Serb).

Rebecca West

#7. Good well-being promotes good productivity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Ultimately, the purpose of magic is to free our potential, not bind us to ideas.

Philip Carr-Gomm

#9. Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

Kacey Musgraves

#10. Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

John Owen

#11. I like to be open with journalists and I like to be honest. I hate being disingenuous because that's really uncomfortable for me; I don't excel at doing that.

Megan Fox

#12. You always lose a lot of money chasing after women, but you will never lose a lot of women chasing after money

Foster "Raul" Mkhabele

#13. The living are just the dead on holiday

Maurice Maeterlinck

#14. Incredible experience, watching a baby birth on the internet. It's now my screensaver.

David Letterman

#15. If I had taken time to think, it would have gotten away again, but conscious thinking had been canceled by pain, surprise, and the horror I suppose almost any man feels when he sees blood pouring from a part of his body that was whole only seconds before.

Stephen King

#16. A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.

Clement Attlee

#17. Trying to make sense of love is like trying to dissect a rainbow.

Suzanne Selfors

#18. Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Liz Smith

#19. I was undeterred by the danger of traveling as a single American woman through Taliban-governed land. I believed in the stories I wanted to tell, the stories I felt were underreported, and I was convinced that that belief would keep me alive.

Lynsey Addario

#20. Han Solo would never wear the earring Harrison Ford wears.

Margaret Stohl

#21. Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.

Vinod Khosla