Villa Quotes - Page 2

• When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Mother, Father, House

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Strong, Memories, Dancing

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• My future Plans - Marriage, a villa and 10 kids.

  Peta Wilson

  Kids, Peta, My Future

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• I'm not interested in making money, or being wealthy enough to have a villa in Beverly Hills, because in Paris I don't need that much money.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Paris, Beverly Hills, Needs

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• If there is anything so romantic as that castle-palace-fortress of Monaco I have not seen it. If there is anything more deliciousthan the lovely terraces and villas of Monte Carlo I do not wish to see them. There is nothing beyond the semi-tropical vegetation, the projecting promontories into the Mediterranean, the all-embracing sweep of the ocean, the olive groves, and the enchanting climate! One gets tired of the word beautiful.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Beautiful, Ocean, Tired

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• The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of the bulldog and the dismantling of the cheap villa, both of which are responsible for a deal of our contentment amid ugliness.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Country, League, Contentment

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• I don't follow football, I just love the name Aston Villa. Here in England you have other footballing entities like Manchester and Arsenal and Chelsea

  Tom Hanks

  Football, Names, England

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• Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994

  Alec Guinness

  Years, Theatre, September

  Alec Guinness (2001). “A Commonplace Book”

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• Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at portrait level in the far wall, caused by mortar-shell attack on the villa two months earlier. The rest of the room had adapted itself to this wound, accepting the habits of weather, evening stars, the sound of birds.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Stars, Wall, Doors

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.12, A&C Black

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• I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Thinking, Glasses

  Ernest Hemingway (2012). “A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• And that's Aston Villa's first league goal since their last one.

  Elton Welsby

  Soccer, League, Goal

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• With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I.

  Robert Powell

  Holiday, Wife, Networking

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• On our honeymoon we talked and talked. We stayed in a beachfront villa, and we drank rum and lemonade and talked so much that I never even noticed what color the sea was. Whenever I need to stop and remind myself how much I once loved Andrew, I only need to think about this. That the ocean covers seven tenths of the earth's surface, and yet my husband could make me not notice it.

  Chris Cleave

  Husband, Ocean, Thinking

  Chris Cleave (2012). “Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are a Jewish Israeli, you go to Gaza, you get the villa of your life, the villa which you did not dream of ever getting in Israel, a beautiful two-story villa with green meadows and so on, practically for nothing. Then you put up hothouses of tomatoes or flowers; you take the very Arabs from whom you grabbed this land and employ them as laborers in your hothouses. Israeli law does not apply in Gaza: There is no minimum wage, no annual vacation, no compensation for dismissal - so you get the work very, very cheap. It is a wonderful setup economically.

  Uri Avnery

  Beautiful, Dream, Flower

  Source: progressive.org

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