#villa

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#between #built #great #halting #national

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality. ↗

— James Wolfensohn

#notion #reality #village #world

Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #electric #elimination #gas #i

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

#artistry #been #different #few #gone

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters. ↗

— Carly Simon

#even #greenwich #greenwich village #i #look

A lot of people only see me as villains. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#me #only #people #see #villains

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work. ↗

— Phil Keoghan

#any #good #good story #heroes #make

I like playing the villain. ↗

— Alex O'Loughlin

#like #playing #villain

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#amount #could #extreme #hear #heard

Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#mexico #old-gringo #pancho-villa #the-good #age