Top 1200 East Village Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

I really missed the East Coast. I love living in Hawaii, but I miss the changing of seasons.

I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.

If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.

My vision is to make Seoul the center of East Asia in terms of economy, culture and tourism.

I want to see if I can play in the Big East, ACC, Pac-10, and pitch, too.

Environment does shape you. My environment, in a pit family, in a pit village, with nine kids in total.

I grew up as this rather lonely European kid living in the east Malaysian jungle.

I had a lot of time before I actually got my break so to speak. I was building websites for other actors. I worked in a grocery store back in the little village where I grew up but I found it mind-numbingly boring.

I saw the Village as a place you could escape to, to express yourself. When I first went there, I wrote and performed poetry. Then I drew portraits for a couple of years. It took a while before I thought about picking up a guitar.

How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be the French version of the village idiot

In the Far East, it is taken for granted that the training of a monk is physically rigorous and academically challenging.

Hey...You.. What's life without eyebrows, freak? Got a new listing for your bingo book right here!! A guyis going to be the next lord hokage of Konohagakure village. Uzumaki Naruto! Konoha-school NINJA!

In my childhood dreams, I pictured Italy as paradise. I longed to be the next Sophia Loren, living in a village with winding cobbled streets where washing hung from windows and everybody gesticulated and shouted amicably. Ah, but life surprises.

So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all.

I always fancied myself an outdoorsman, even though I'm a Jewish guy from the East Coast.

Of course, like all organic processes, there is an ebb and a flow to writing. One does not exist without the other. The writer needs to be vigilant in protecting both, confident in the knowledge that the village will be there when we choose, finally, to open the door.

Our work seeks to focus attention on the necessity of developing security for the global village, meeting its need for clean air, water, food and a healthy habitat, as well as fostering clarity of vision on cooperation and development.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

In my village where I'm from, there's still not running water everywhere. People are still struggling to get clean water.

In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four.

The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.

We all recognize that the Mid-east is dissolving into crises, and we know terrorism did not start with 9-11.

The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.

Shifting loyalties in the Middle East make it difficult to vet supposed moderate groups.

I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.

If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.

You know the Middle East is going crazy when Lebanon is the most peaceful place in the region.

Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would read the New York Times, and that's not what he wanted in the Village Voice.

We feel like we are using the East Side to kind of spoof what everybody thinks is cool.

One of the lessons learned in the Middle East is to never try to anticipate the other side's moves.

In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.

The Saudis helped the U.S. ensure that the Russians never got a meaningful foothold in the Middle East.

The negative effects of greedy politicians have haunted the north-east for years; it's very apparent.

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that life? We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

I always like to hang out with whoever's directing and watch what they do. I hang out at Video Village, the area where the directors and the writers and script advisors are.

As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and hang about Soho and write great poetry and try to avoid drinking myself to death."

[Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other having affairs with each other

You can criticize any news staff in some ways, but the one thing that you couldn't call the Village Voice staff was a staff of stenographers, taking notes from public figures and just passing them on.

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.

We lived in a farm village, and no one could afford to buy a car or to fly. We were envious. We couldn't afford any toys. I couldn't imagine making a real car.

Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; the morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.

Maybe there are some traditional things, but they are more about the way the West packages the East.

There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.

These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.

Not long ago, in an excruciatingly remote village in the Australian Outback, I was startled to see a bartender in a cowboy hat measuring out a classically proportioned French 75 - something he'd picked up on the Internet, he told me.

My first part-time job gave me the smell of earning money when I worked in a village chemist aged 14. I loved helping the pharmacist with prescriptions and on the shop floor, with its glamorous make-up aisle.

Israel is our greatest ally in the Middle East. And it's a relationship we should be strengthening, not weakening.

We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.

In Uttar Pradesh there is a district called Shahjahanpur. Fifty kilometers from Shahjahanpur, there is a small, cosy village called Kulra, where my entire family lives.

If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they’ll be able to run a township, and a county.

The Israeli regime is a tool in the hands of Zionists to control the Middle-East and the entire world.

It's true you have to screen out a lot living in the city. I stayed away from New York for a long time after college, and when I was first back, I'd read The Village Voice and feel like I was having a panic attack.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

A long time ago, I thought, as a writer in the Caribbean, 'I don't ever want to have to write 'It was great in Paris.'' Because I don't think, proportionately speaking, that one's experience in a city as opposed to, say, a village in St. Lucia, is superior to the other.

The complete lack of governance in huge swaths of the Middle East - that is the project of the American establishment.

In the occupation in Afghanistan, there are tragedies as well. It's not as bad as in Iraq because there are fewer American troops. But, as I describe in the book, going out on patrol and coming into a village, the soldiers found a stash of documents and decided this was Taliban propaganda.