Paris Quotes - Page 30

• I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Girl, New York, Artist

  "My art is a form of restoration". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• If you mention any ideological thing about shooting Last Tango in Paris, I was thinking I was doing a political film.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Thinking, Political, Shooting

  "You, Me, and Bernardo Bertolucci". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 2, 2014.

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• I get invited to do panels with other Brooklyn writers to discuss what it's like to be a writer in Brooklyn. I expect it's like writing in Manhattan, but there aren't as many tourists walking very slowly in front of you when you step out for coffee.

  Colson Whitehead

  Coffee, Writing, People

  "The Column of Lasting Insignificance" by John Wilcock, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2008.

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• The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Fans, Pages

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• Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime!

  Erik Larson

  Reading, Sublime, Missions

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• The reason why there is now no communist government in Paris is because in the circumstances of 1945 the Soviet army was not able to reach French soil.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Army, Government

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• I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.

  Simon Hoggart

  Turkeys, News, Stories

  "Just a bellow - or a roar of public rage?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.

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• Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.

  Edward Rutherfurd

  Dream, Cities, Saint

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• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  Frances Mayes

  Country, Rome, America

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• Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.

  William Kennedy

  Issues, Greek, Literature

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• I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.

  Eve Ensler

  New York, Saint, Nomad

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• There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

  Charles Finch

  Important, Youth, Dimwits

  Charles Finch (2014). “The Last Enchantments”, p.167, Macmillan

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• I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I dont think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

  John Burdett

  Thinking, Average, Playing It Safe

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• That's when I began drinking coffee.  I was hung up on every little thing.  I loved Paris, and felt straightaway at home.  Not to be grandiose, but it seemed like all the city had been waiting for me.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Drinking, Coffee, Home

  Rosecrans Baldwin (2012). “Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down”, p.11, Macmillan

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• As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its dominance of the art world with the emergence of the Abstract Expressionists.

  Arne Glimcher

  Art, War, America

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

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• In Paris, you couldn't really turn around without seeing the result of lovers' bad decisions. An artist given to sexual excess was almost a cliché, but no one seemed to mind. As long as you were making something good or interesting or sensational, you could have as many lovers as you wanted and ruin them all.

  Paula McLain

  Artist, Long, Interesting

  Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.161, Ballantine Books

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• Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne in Paris, he writes from a position of professorial confidence. He has conducted extensive research into the history of colour for a quarter century and his aim is to correct misapprehensions and banish ignorance. His style is not to inquire, explore or interrogate, in the fashion of academic studies today. It is to impart knowledge.

  Sebastian Smee

  Fashion, Writing, Ignorance

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• Science is given almost no visibility in the media. If a Martian came down to Earth and watched television, he'd come to the conclusion that all the world's society is based on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. He'd be amazed that our society hasn't collapsed.

  Michio Kaku

  Media, Visibility, Television

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 09, 2009.

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• Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

  Moliere

  Cities, Culture, No Hope

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• In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

  Honore de Balzac

  Horse, Fall, Men

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Atheist's Mass”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• To have one's mother-in-law in the country when one lives in Paris, and vice versa, is one of those strokes of luck that one encounters only too rarely.

  Honore de Balzac

  Marriage, Mother, Country

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• Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

  Honore de Balzac

  Ideas, Pet, Different

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.117, The Floating Press

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• I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independence, Savages, Woods

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.63, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If a man has his throat cut in Paris, it's a murder. If 50,000 people are murdered in the east, it is a question.

  Victor Hugo

  Cutting, Men, People

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• The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of "la patrie" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!

  Victor Hugo

  Sleep, August, Giving

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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