Paris Quotes - Page 18

• To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.

  Victor Hugo

  Cities, Two, Ugly

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.9

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• When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Doe, Matter, Influence

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• I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Special, Different, London

  Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.

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• When I moved to Paris in the '70s, there wasn't very much going on in film in England. So when I started doing French films, there was a natural movement toward the kind of films I wanted to do. It wasn't the reason I came, but it so happened that I stepped into a time and place that actually corresponded to what I wanted. That sometimes happens in life. And it was rather beautiful.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Beautiful, England, Movement

  Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.

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• When I look into the eyes of my Prince, and my daughter Paris, I see miracles and I see beauty.

  Michael Jackson

  Daughter, Eye, Miracle

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• Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

  Oscar Wilde

  Air, Games, Cafes

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• London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

  Samuel Johnson

  Home, Fate, Rome

  Samuel Johnson, Thomas Park (1811). “The poetical works of Samuel Johnson: collated with the best editions”, p.12

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• My rejection at the Salon brought an end to my hesitation [to settle in Paris] since after this failure I can no longer claim to cope... alas, that fatal rejection has virtually taken the bread out of my mouth.

  Claude Monet

  Taken, Rejection, Mouths

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt.

  Claude Monet

  Strong, Believe, Taken

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

  Francois Gautier

  Class, Catholic, Born

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• The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Art, Dancer

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “The East and the West: (Prachya o Paschatya)”, p.59, editionNEXT.com

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• I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.

  Twiggy

  San Francisco, Mad, Bay Area

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• Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.

  Annie Dillard

  Summer, New York, Writing

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books

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• I envy the people who go to Paris the first time

  Marc Jacobs

  People, Envy, Firsts

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• It's very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Couple, Humorous

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• Neil Shepard's (T)RAVEL/ UN(T)RAVEL takes us from the sublime -- Paris in Spring, sunset on Corfu -- to an unscheduled toilet stop in a Chinese desert as fellow passengers cheer. Yes, there's light at the heart of this book; but darkness too, as the world and the traveler unravel and re-ravel, fall together, come apart. Shepard proves the best sort of traveling companion -- lively, observant, incisive, eloquent, charmed by the strange and familiar, the old and new. Climb aboard these poems. Enjoy the ride.

  Charles Harper Webb

  Cheer, Spring, Fall

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• But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

  Hugh Dancy

  Culture, Dublin, Cafes

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• I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!

  Berenice Marlohe

  Names, Casting, Auditions

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• Frankly, I have no sex appeal. Just strolling in Los Angeles, London, or Paris, you will find a bunch of young guys like me. I am not James Dean.

  Robert Pattinson

  Sex, Guy, London

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• Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.

  Barack Obama

  Secret, Unions, Politics

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.274, Canongate Books

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• So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.

  Anita Loos

  Girl, Thinking, People

  Anita Loos (1925). “"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady”

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• No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.

  John Vinocur

  Change, Cities, Arguing

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• We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

  Richard Perle

  Government, Europe, Should

  David Frum, Richard Norman Perle (2004). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, Ballantine Books

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• So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.

  Milos Forman

  Eyebrows, Prague, Left

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• It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own).

  Henry James

  New York, Growing, Way

  Henry James, Leon Edel (1987). “Henry James, Selected Letters”, p.184, Harvard University Press

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