Village Quotes - Page 8

• 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.'

  Matt Groening

  Small Villages, Littles, Bali

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• There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Way, Killing

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• This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.

  Salman Rushdie

  Beach, Sound, Gone

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• My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.

  Gus Van Sant

  Teacher, Art, Gay

  Interview with Tony Dushane, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2008.

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• I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

  Jose Saramago

  Rivers, Small Villages, East

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• Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees.

  Nancy Mitford

  Summer, Spring, Night

  Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

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• Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.

  Tony Abbott

  Welfare, Bigger, Ifs

  "Tony Abbott joins Insiders". Cassidy, B., www.abc.net.au. May 24, 2009.

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• The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.

  Josiah Stamp

  Roots, Government, Statistics

  Some Economic Factors in Modern Life ch. 8 (1929)

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• First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Cities, Chicago, Dirt

  Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.163, Courier Corporation

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• The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled unless there was something to smile at.

  Susanna Clarke

  Book, Curious, Graves

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories”, p.12, A&C Black

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• I therefore invite you all," Mr Fox went on, 'to stay here with me for ever.' For ever!' they cried. 'My goodness! How marvellous!' And Rabbit said to Mrs Rabbit, 'My dear, just think! We're never going to be shot again in our lives!' We will make,' said Mr Fox, 'a little underground village, with streets and houses on each side - seperate houses for Badgers and Moles and Rabbits and Weasels and Foxes. And every day I will go shopping for you all. And every day we will eat like kings.' The cheering that followed this speech went on for many minutes.

  Roald Dahl

  Kings, Cheer, Thinking

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• Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. ‘What, grandfather!’ I exclaimed. ‘Planting an almond tree?’ And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: ‘My son, I carry on as if I should never die.’ I replied: ‘And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.’ Which of us was right, boss?

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Son, Tree, Boss

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Across town, over in the East Village, the graffiti was calling for the rich to be eaten, imprisoned, or taxed out of existence. Though it sometimes seemed like a nice idea, I hoped the revolution would not take place during my lifetime. I didn't want the rich to go away until I could at least briefly join their ranks.

  David Sedaris

  Nice, Ideas, Going Away

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• You will find a way to live without me. You will find a way to live for both of us,' Alexander said to Tatiana as the swelling Kama River flowed from the Ural Mountains through a pine village named Lazarevo, once when they were in love, and young.

  Paullina Simons

  Rivers, Mountain, Way To Live

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• I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In the morning the sun rises. At lunch it sets behind the mountain. In the early afternoon it rises once more. The cocks crow for the second time, and later the sun sets again. No. One peak. Metaphors should not be belaboured.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Lunch, Crow

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Signal to Noise”, p.44, A&C Black

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• She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of the village, in fragments of smooth timber or glass in the jetsam. She will ask them, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?" And they will answer her in voices very like her own, but with new lilts and squeaks and splashes in them that show they are their own.

  David Almond

  Garden, Glasses, Voice

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• "What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Running, Writing, Heaven

  "This Side of Paradise". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920.

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• One does see so much evil in a village,' murmured Miss Marple in an explanatory voice.

  Agatha Christie

  Voice, Evil, Missing

  Agatha Christie (1985). “Agatha Christie, five Miss Marple mysteries”

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• Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn’t flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Eye, Boys

  ALBERT CAMUS (1942). “THE Stranger”

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• There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Mean, Names, Rivers

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.109, Hamilton Books

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• Good grief. You two look like Village of the Sofa Damned. (Cassandra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Grief, Two, Looks

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.160, Macmillan

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• Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph

  Allen Ginsberg

  Reading, Eye, Winter

  Allen Ginsberg, “Kaddish, Part I”

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• The emotional health of a village depended upon having a man whom everyone loved to hate, and Heaven had blessed us with two of them.

  Barry Hughart

  Hate, Blessed, Men

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• Orion sniffed. "Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your way back. Then I can make a few pennies wth my verses while you build us a shack and perform circus tricks for passersby." This was such a surprising statement that Foaly briefly considered jumping into the hole to get away.

  Eoin Colfer

  Jumping, Giving, Orion

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• [Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village.

  Daniel Quinn

  War, Past, Civilization

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