Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Abbott

Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

Brian Johnson

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

Adolph Green

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

I'd like to see them do more of this so we don't have to go to Cocoa Village all the time.

Daniel Defoe

Manchester, one of the greatest, if not really the greatest mere village in England.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.

Mahatma Gandhi

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

John Berger

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

Henry David Thoreau

Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.

Gore Vidal

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

Chris Martin

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

Geraldine Chaplin

I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows.

Howard Gordon

We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all?

Jim Butcher

Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

Howard Rheingold

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

Paul McCartney

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

Peter Carey

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Matt Groening

I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

Marshall McLuhan

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

Patrick McGoohan

We all live in a little Village,

Mahatma Gandhi

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

Mahatma Gandhi

We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.

Mahatma Gandhi

I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

Mahatma Gandhi

If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

Mahatma Gandhi

A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can.

Mahatma Gandhi

If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.

Stanley Kubrick

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Robin Quivers

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

...in the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in the streets or villages...in the woods we return to reason and faith.

Sam Levenson

Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village

Sharon Olds

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.