Paris Quotes - Page 12

• I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Fire, Rome

  Adolf Hitler (1972). “Secret conversations, 1941-1944”, Octagon Press, Limited

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• There is nothing preventing the enemy reaching Paris. We were fighting on our last line and it has been breached. I am helpless, I cannot intervene.

  Maxime Weygand

  War, Fighting, Enemy

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• Golf without Jones would be like France without Paris: leaderless, lightless and lonely.

  Herbert Wind

  Lonely, Golf, Would Be

  Herbert Warren Wind (2016). “The Story of American Golf: Its Champions and Championships, 1888–1975”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. ... It was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris and London, and later to Berlin and Moscow and New York.

  Freeman Dyson

  Horse, New York, Science

  "Infinite in All Directions" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 8, (p. 135), 1988.

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• I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Beautiful, Girl, Goodbye

  Leroy Neiman (2013). “All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs”, p.28, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.

  Anatole France

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Museums

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• I've been to Paris. And it ain't that pretty at all.

  Warren Zevon

  Fun, Funny Travel

  Song: Ain't That Pretty At All, Album: The Envoy

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• Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.

  M. John Harrison

  Dream, Cities, Vision

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• In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds ... that each of them is built up of molecules of the same kinds we find on earth. A molecule of hydrogen, for example, whether in Sirius or in Arcturus, executes its vibrations in precisely the same time. Each molecule therefore throughout the universe bears impressed upon it the stamp of a metric system as distinctly as does the metre of the Archives at Paris, or the royal cubit of the Temple of Karnac.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Stars, Science, Light

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• In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Beautiful, Artist, Museums

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• In Paris you're always surrounded by French people.

  David Sedaris

  People

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• If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

  Oscar de la Renta

  New York, Artist, Needs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron; let me rust.' ... It is like a passing fool in a crowd of the University, a buffoon in the hall; for all the things in Paris has made, it alone has neither wits nor soul.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Engineering, Iron, Soul

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• I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe.

  Monica Bellucci

  Daughter, Mother, Europe

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• I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly experienced French peasant girls galloping up and down my - hang on.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Girl, Drinking, Upper Class

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• Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

  Richard Leakey

  Father, Skulls, Imagination

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• I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in which I draw my nudes here in Paris, more original and at the same time sensitively observed.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Expression, Drawing, Texture

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• America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.

  C. Wright Mills

  Rome, Cities, America

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Power Elite”, p.47, Oxford University Press

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• When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Europe, Cold, Cold Heart

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• Paris is the café of Europe.

  Ferdinando Galiani

  Europe

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• In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

  Karen Hughes

  Mom, Mother, Running

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• It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that it awakens are independent of time and place, because its kingdom is not of this world. To those who have and hold a sense of the significance of form what does it matter whether the forms that move them were created in Paris the day before yesterday or in Babylon fifty centuries ago? The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Moving, Independent

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• I wanna kiss you in Paris
  I wanna hold your hand in Rome

  Madonna Ciccone

  Song, Kissing, Hands

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• I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Science, Light, Should Have

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• A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Leadership, Men, Troops

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