Village Quotes - Page 34

• When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor.

  Nico

  Nice, Mad, Diaries

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• Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.

  Haruki Murakami

  Sleep, Blow, Volcanoes

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones.

  Billy Collins

  Memories, Phones, Fishing

  2000 Taking off Emily Dickinson's Clothes: Selected Poems, 'Forgetfulness'.

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• I did a research assignment on life in the Middle Ages only last year. I found the era fascinating, all that chivalry and court romance. But I never pictured anything as poor as this village. This is the pits. There's no romance here, definitely no chivary. And it stinks--of sweat and smoke and sewage.

  Marianne Curley

  Years, Sweat, Romance

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• I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the ‘village’ is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.

  Wess Stafford

  Country, Lonely, Children

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.55, WaterBrook

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• I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.

  Shirley Jackson

  Book, Home, Sky

  Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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• She couldn't disappoint the whole village. There were no wallscreens here, no newsfeeds or satellites bands, and touring soccer teams were no doubt few and far between. (...), that made stories a valuable commodity, and it probably wasn't very often that a stranger dropped in from the sky.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Soccer, Team, Sky

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Pretties”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.

  Laini Taylor

  Dragons, Monsters, Cry

  "Daughter of Smoke and Bone". Book by Laini Taylor, September 27, 2011.

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• I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society.

  Lech Walesa

  Education, Opportunity, Rights

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• Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist.

  Moshe Dayan

  Book, Israel, Names

  Moshe Dayan's address to the students at Technion University in Haifa, Israel (March 19, 1969), a transcription of which appeared in Ha'aretz (April 4, 1969); later quoted in Edward W. Said "The Question of Palestine" (p. 14), 1980.

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• When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

  Roald Dahl

  Morning, School, Boys

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• I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay.

  Sloane Crosley

  Writing, Two, Voice

  "Book Talk: Sloane Crosley hits brothels and clowns in new essays". Interview with Belinda Goldsmith, www.reuters.com. June 23, 2010.

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• I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

  Julius Caesar

  Inspirational, Life, Rome

  Francis Bacon 'The Advancement of Learning' pt. 2, ch. 23, sect. 36, based on Plutarch 'Parallel Lives' 'Julius Caesar' ch. 11

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• The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?

  Imran Khan

  Children, War, Wife

  "Imran Khan: 'America is destroying Pakistan. We're using our army to kill our own people with their money'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2011.

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• There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.

  Franz Kafka

  Love, Together, Earth

  "The Castle". Book by Franz Kafka, 1926.

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• My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Freedom, Opportunity

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• The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!

  Joseph Stalin

  Change, War, Fighting

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• It was the easiest thing in the world for Arya to step up behind him and stab him. “Is there gold hidden in the village?” she shouted as she drove the blade up through his back. “Is there silver? Gems?” She stabbed twice more. “Is there food? Where is Lord Beric?” She was on top of him by then, still stabbing. “Where did he go? How many men were with him? How many knights? How many bowmen? How many, how many, how many, how many, how many, how many? is there gold in the village?

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Knights, Gold

  George R. R. Martin (2000). “A Storm of Swords”, Spectra

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• A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.

  Chinua Achebe

  Home, Moon, Men

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.118, Heinemann

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• We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.

  Jackie Chan

  Peace, Responsibility, Diversity

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• To think, a sweater, is made entirely of knots. My stomach could clothe a village.

  Andrea Gibson

  Thinking, Sweaters, Made

  Twitter post from Jan 11, 2011

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• I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.

  Carly Simon

  Years, Gone, Phases

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• The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

  Banksy

  Art, Order, People

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that is 1 1/4 acres to a family of five, that would be more than enough land to support the family for the whole year. If natural farming were practiced, a farmer would also have plenty of time for leisure and social activities within the village community. I think this is the most direct path toward making this country a happy, pleasant land.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Country, Thinking, Years

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• What do they do for a village idiot when you're here?

  Tanya Huff

  Village Idiots, Idiot

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