Paris Quotes - Page 13

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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The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

Ernest Gellner

Car, Detroit, Obscurity

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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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I'm living on coffee, cigarettes and hospitality food. My bags and things are all over this hotel room in Dallas, but the scene could easily be in London, Paris, New York of LA. My eyes are burning, my knees hurt and I hate to say it, but a certain and vital part of my nether region is beginning to smell like peanut butter. Welcome to life on tour.

Corey Taylor

Hurt, New York, Hate

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I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.

Emir Kusturica

New York, Airports, Years

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But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? If companies owning railways have been able to agree, why should railway workers, who would take possession of railways, not agree likewise? And if the Petersburg-Warsaw Company and that of Paris-Belfort can act in harmony, without giving themselves the luxury of a common commander, why, in the midst of our societies, consisting of groups of free workers, should we need a Government?

Peter Kropotkin

Government, Luxury, Giving

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In Paris... I achieved a freer attitude toward anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I recognized the emptiness and futility of trying to "combat" anti-Semitism.

Theodor Herzl

Attitude, Trying, Emptiness

"The Diaries of Theodor Herzl". Book by Theodor Herzl, 1956.

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I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.

George Sand

Country, Profound, Water

George Sand (2009). “The George Sand-gustave Flaubert Letters: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.201, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine.

Robin Leach

Wine, Weekend, Land

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Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

James Weldon Johnson

Cities, London, Facts

James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.

Frederic Chopin

Musical, Ass, Pianist

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When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

Elliott Carter

Flow, Very Sad, Sad Times

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