#villa

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#become #better #comes #efficient #get

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#about #actually #century #family #great

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero. ↗

— Tom Berenger

#cartoon #end #hero #him #person

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. ↗

— John Berger

#chosen #emigration #experience #forced #frontiers

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace. ↗

— Aberjhani

#famous-poets #famous-quotes #famous-quotes-from-classic-books #flowers #global-village

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome. ↗

— Epicurus

#i #little #rather #rome #second

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#both #characters #create #depth #hard

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

I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride the horses. So, it was a big - it has been a big passion for me. ↗

— Andrea Bocelli

#been #began #big #born #child

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