Paris Quotes - Page 20

• I cannot prevent the French from being French

  Charles de Gaulle

  Vomiting, France

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• I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

  Thomas Mallon

  Wall, Sleep, Bags

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• I grew up as a fifth-generation Jew in the American South, at the confluence of two great storytelling traditions. After graduating from Yale in the 1980s, I moved to Japan. For young adventure seekers like myself, the white-hot Japanese miracle held a similar appeal as Russia in 1920s or Paris in the 1950s.

  Bruce Feiler

  Adventure, White, Russia

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• As for the role of France and Germany: French politics is often more self-confident then German politics due to the catastrophe in the first half of the last century. If Berlin and Paris don't agree, then it is difficult to make progress in Europe.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Self, Europe, Progress

  "Q &A with Wolfgang Schäuble". Interview with Derek Scally, www.irishtimes.com. August 24, 2012.

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• Believe me, I've done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers in the south of France or the Hamptons, walking in Connemara, and year-round shopping in Manhattan and Paris.

  Anne Robinson

  Summer, Believe, Years

  "Anne Robinson: after our Sri Lanka trip, will my daughter still speak to me?" by Anne Robinson and Emma Wilson, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.

  Samuel Rogers

  Thinking, Mind, London

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• I've never been to Paris. I don't like to fly!

  Pearl Cleage

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• The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Syrup, London, Milk

  "Marianne Faithfull: 'My father belonged to a commune, and the food was always ghastly" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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• I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling.

  Maud Welzen

  Mom, School, Age

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• The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.

  David Frum

  Tyrants, History, Historical

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• Filmmaking is to me very similar to being in a café somewhere in Paris and looking at the people walking by.

  Claire Denis

  People, Filmmaking, Walking

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• Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .

  Elie Wiesel

  Discovery, Cities, Encounters

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “The Testament: A novel”, p.168, Schocken

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• As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first brown with blossoms, then emerald with leaves, — we appreciate the vanishing beauty of the bare boughs. In our favored temperate zone, the trees denude themselves each year, like the goddesses before Paris, that we may see which unadorned loveliness is the fairest.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Spring, Years, Appreciate

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1863). “Out-door Papers”, p.238

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• The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

  Diablo Cody

  Flippant, Appetite, Stills

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• The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Eye, America

  Mark Twain (1871). “The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress ...”, p.379

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• Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines say 'EVENING IN PARIS BALL RAISES MONEY TO FIGHT GOUT' instead of 'RICH PEOPLE AMUSE THEMSELVES'.

  Dave Barry

  Fighting, People, Giving

  Dave Barry (1989). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, Ballantine Books

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• My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home.

  Nicole Miller

  Mother, Fashion, Home

  "Nicole Miller in the Flesh". Interview with Fabiola Beracasa, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2009.

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• Wanna know what heaven is ? Feeling the sun shine on you... In Paris

  Rachel Zoe

  Shine On, Shining, Heaven

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• There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Country, New York, Sea

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Travel, New York, Loneliness

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.

  Julian Barnes

  Stars, Asking Why, Three

  "A vineyard in Montmartre: just one of the hidden pleasures of Paris" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.

  Julian Barnes

  Artist, Years, House

  "A vineyard in Montmartre: just one of the hidden pleasures of Paris" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love.

  Julian Barnes

  Art, Self, Cities

  "A vineyard in Montmartre: just one of the hidden pleasures of Paris" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• 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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• There's a very apt saying in show business: "If you don't go over budget in Paris, you're either very rich or very sick. "

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Sick

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