“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.” LightMy OwnNovelSawsStandardsOilChineseBelovedShopsGasVillageVegetablesElectricLampsMy Own LifeEliminationInvadingShanghaiElectric LightStandard Oil Author:Hu Shih
“We need to reach the millions who live in cities, the hundreds of thousands in industrial centers, the tens of thousands in medium-sized towns, the thousands in small towns, and the hundreds in villages -- all these at once. Like a volcanic eruption, a spiritual revolution needs to spread through the country, to spur people to crucial decisions. People have to recognize the futility of splitting life up into politics, economics, the humanities, and religion. We must be awakened to a life in which all of these things are completely integrated.” PeopleNeedsCountrySpiritualHumanityCommunityDecisionCitiesMillionsRevolutionEconomicsTownsSpreadMediumsVillageCrucialSmall TownAwakenedIntegratedFutilitySpursSplittingEruptionVolcanic Eruptions Author:Eberhard Arnold
“There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.” WayMadeMomentsBeautifulFeltPerfectStruggleFieldsWindowPaintVillageAnglePerfect Moments Author:Nicolas Roeg
“New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.” CountryVillageNew ZealandSmall Countries Author:Peter Jackson
“I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.” LittlesParentPovertyVillage Author:Roberto Benigni
“Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers.” YearsMindSeemsCitiesShareCrazyReaderYears AgoMovedEducatedThese DaysVillageMainstreamRespectableNew YorkersGreenwichGreenwich Village Author:Aravind Adiga
“Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.” MayStillsWholeBlackWhiteKnownWonderfulPaintingSeriesLandscapeVillageBlack And WhitePortraitsGorgeousGreenwichGreenwich Village Author:David Amram
“Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.” LooksLondonVillageOutsidersWestminster Author:Diane Abbott
“I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows.” IfsKnowsVillageSwiss Author:Geraldine Chaplin
“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.” StillsTodayWantedYoungStepsMetsTheaterFallenVillageYoung LadiesVanguard Author:Adolph Green
“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.” PeopleIfsRealWaitingMorningWastePaperNewsModelsOnlineVillageEfficientVersusMechanicBlacksmithsModel T Author:Marc Andreessen
“Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?” ShouldRealityLandFolksGladVillageGhetto Author:Stevie Wonder
“Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen.” MeanLongHomePoliticsSexLordRichCleanQueensVillageLong AgoLawnsObsceneVictoriaCroquet Author:Ray Davies
“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.” OpportunityStriveChinaVillageEarningExpanseSmall VillagesAvon Author:Andrea Jung
“I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.” EastVillageTattooStampsViolinOutlinesParlorTrampsEast Village Author:Katherine Moennig
“I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he's a baker.” PeopleLittlesAgeBrotherMy BrotherVillageNutsFreakBakersHampshireNew Hampshire Author:Vincent Kartheiser