#villa

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#fashionable #longer #masks #new #new york

We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#bombed #burned #children #civilians #clear

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

#called #father #found #had #him

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

— Julius Caesar

#had #i #rather #rome #second

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

#canon #during #elsewhere #engagement #force

I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists. ↗

— Harry Crosby

#ankles #around #asked #chains #forge

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#been #certain #certain point #day #hero

China is going to be one of Avon's largest market opportunities. It has a large geographic expanse, with hundreds of thousands of women in small villages really striving to make an earnings opportunity for themselves. ↗

— Andrea Jung

#china #earnings #expanse #geographic #going

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains. ↗

— Edward Dowden

#tragedies #villains #without

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work. ↗

— Michael Emerson

#comedies #did #funny #funny person #i