Village Quotes

Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would read the New York Times, and that's not what he wanted in the Village Voice.
Sydney Schanberg

Daily, Said, Wanted

There's nothing nicer than coming back to your village, where people like my mum's friends take the mick out of me. I prefer that to the craziness of Hollywood.
Jeremy Irvine

Nothing, Friends, Coming

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.
Peter Jackson

Country, Small, Large

In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.
Vanessa Mae

Down, Winter, Summer

I quit the tax job then and decided that I was going to play in a band. I answered ads in the Village Voice and went through two days of auditioning for bands.
Robert Quine

Job, Through, Two

I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.
Andrew Rannells

Live, East, Recognized

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
Peter Carey

Famous, Writer, Fame

One of the problems the internet has introduced is that in this electronic village, all the village idiots have internet access.
Peter Nelson

Problems, Idiots, Internet

During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.
George Crook

Strong, Through, Before

The Jumble Shop would be one place where we'd sometimes accumulate down in the Village. I think it might be just a place that's unknown that was right around the corner from wherever it was that we met.
Lee Krasner

Down, Sometimes, Place

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.
Joan Van Ark

Idiot, Become, Joke

I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me.
Andrea Bocelli

Passion, Big, Child

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.
Luke Treadaway

Small, Less, Growing

Village cricket spread fast through the land.
G. M. Trevelyan

Through, Cricket, Fast

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.
Gregory Corso

Start, Started, Side

My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.
Gregory Corso

Home, War, Father

Now, twenty years old, I come out and I go back to Greenwich Village. Now, of course, I'm a wealthy man.
Gregory Corso

Old, Wealthy, Twenty

Benteen, come on, big village, be quick. Bring packs.
George Armstrong Custer

Big, Bring, Quick

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

Change, Time, Person

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.
John George Nicolay

Men, Strength, Sex

During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street of the village, I observed a young man riding up and down the street, as I supposed, in a violent passion.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Passion, Down, Young

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.
Steve Forbert

Best, Guitar, Place

The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
Nastia Liukin

Time, Confidence, Saying

I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They have nightclubs at the Olympic Village. It's like college all over again.
Misty May-Treanor

Again, College, Behind

Faculty met, and after the usual business, some conversation was had about certain students being addicted to drinking, and it was reported that a citizen of the village had informed a member of the Faculty that there was a good deal of drinking this term among the students.
Daniel H. Hill

Good, Business, After

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.
Katherine Moennig

Call, Violin, East

I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he's a baker.
Vincent Kartheiser

Between, Tell, Brother

So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
Vic Morrow

Few, Times, Looks

I grew up reading the 'Village Voice' and wanting to be one of these multidisciplinary music writers, film writers, book writers. And I lucked out getting a job at the 'Voice' right after college.
Colson Whitehead

Music, Job, Book

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
Roger McGuinn

Down, Old, Whole

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