Paris Quotes - Page 31

• A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Cities, Mountain, Would Be

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• Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.

  Charles Dickens

  Wine, Six, Harsh

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”

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• [Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

  Albert Camus

  Dirty, Cities, White

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• The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.

  John Berger

  Heart, Doors, Two

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.101, Vintage

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• Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher's regular, what normal woman wants affection?

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Horse, Years

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen”, p.36, Faber & Faber

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• Barbie is my fashion icon. People think I'm Paris Barbie - and it's a compliment.

  Paris Hilton

  Fashion, Thinking, Icons

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• ... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

  Jeanine Basinger

  Movie, Fashion, Three

  Jeanine Basinger (2013). “A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960”, Knopf

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• I notice that, in the lecture … which Prof. Lowry gave recently, in Paris … he brought forward certain freak formulae for tartaric acid, in which hydrogen figures as bigamist … I may say, he but follows the loose example set by certain Uesanians, especially one G. N. Lewis, a Californian thermodynamiter, who has chosen to disregard the fundamental canons of chemistry—for no obvious reason other than that of indulging in premature speculation upon electrons as the cause of valency

  Henry Edward Armstrong

  Example, Fundamentals, May

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• Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him; I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me...having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it.

  Michael J. Fox

  Cancer, Talking, Differences

  Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. February 18, 2009.

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• I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.

  Michael Bond

  Flying, Flats, Civilised

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• Only in Paris do couture workers, from seamstress to mannequin, worship a dress and treat it like a baby.

  Pierre Balmain

  Baby, Dresses, Worship

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• In 1994 while on weekend manoeuvres in France, I commandeered a Chieftain tank without permission of my immediate superiors. I then attempted to invade Paris. However, en route I stopped off at Disneyland, or Eurodisney as it was then called, and was subsequently apprehended on Space Mountain.

  Nick Frost

  Weekend, Space, Mountain

  "Fictional character: Mike Watt". "Spaced", www.imdb.com. 1999–2001.

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• No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hurt, Pain, Cities

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• [After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris]
  [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power; yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

  Henry Adams

  Art, World, Palaces

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• Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just pushing crookedly through the ground. Once eaten in Paris, they never taste as good anywhere else.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Sweet, Food, Pale Yellow

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• I like Paris because I find something here, something of integrity, which I seem to have strangely lost in my own country. It is simplest of all to say that I like to live among people and surroundings where I am not always conscious of 'thou shall not.' I am colored and wish to be known as colored, but sometimes I have felt that my growth as a writer has been hampered in my own country. And so - but only temporarily - I have fled from it.

  Jessie Redmon Fauset

  Country, Integrity, Racism

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• You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Falling In Love, Fall

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• Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Country, Fashion

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.44, Xist Publishing

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• I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial plaque. The French do not season their food with regret.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Regret, France, Eating

  Mary-Lou Weisman, Edward Koren (2003). “Traveling While Married”, p.77, Algonquin Books

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• The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.

  David Cameron

  Freedom, Fighting, People

  Twitter post from Jan 07, 2015

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• If the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris had nothing to do with Islam as President Francois Hollande suggested, why did he invite Muslim community leaders to meet him the day after the tragedy?

  Amir Taheri

  Charlie Hebdo, Community, Leader

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• I started in '88 to play House music, it was a huge revolution for me. I went to London and I saw a DJ on stage and that was crazy at the time. I was one of the really respected and famous DJs in Paris, but they would never show me. I was hidden. A DJ on stage and people dancing and facing the DJ, looking at him? I was like 'wow!'

  David Guetta

  Music, Crazy, Play

  "It's a $6.2 billion industry. But how did Electronic Dance Music get so popular?" by Abel Alvarado, www.cnn.com. October 30, 2015.

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• It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet, John Huss, Savanarola, and numerous other heroic victims; that the Inquisition ordered Galileo to belie his conscience; that thousands and thousands of unfortunates accused of witchcraft were burnt alive in popular ceremonies; it was with the express benediction of Pope Gregory XIII that the butchery of St. Bartholomew drenched Paris in blood.

  Camille Flammarion

  Religious, Jesus, Men

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• I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rome, Doe, Hunters

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• I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.

  Israel Horovitz

  Running, Play, Long

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