Paris famous quotes

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.
-- Abbe Pierre

#War #Law #Paris

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 #Paris

In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#Paris #Consistency #Style

Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.
-- Adam Gopnik

#Heart #Hands #Paris

I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.
-- Agyness Deyn

#Texas #Paris #Silence

The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
-- Al Gore

#Paris #Attention #Environment

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.
-- Al Jardine

#Paris #Car #Grandfather

I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.
-- Al Jourgensen

#Live Life #Reality #Paris

There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.
-- Al Yankovic

#Paris #People #Stuff

Everyone talks about Spanish influences, but where is it?...Tell me 10 great Spanish restaurants in London....You can’t give me the addresses. Nor in Paris.
-- Alain Ducasse

#Paris #Giving #Addresses

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended,
-- Alan Furst

#Heart #Paris #You Like It

The best Paris I know now is in my head.
-- Alan Furst

#Paris

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.
-- Alan Furst

#Paris #Should

For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.
-- Alber Elbaz

#Dream #Home #Paris

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

#Dirty #Cities #Paris

When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the U.K., and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.
-- Alexa Chung

#Fashion #Paris #Different

Prior to his takeover of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was camping near Paris, giving daily news conferences to a fawning international press corps without a murmur of complaint to France from the United States about the disaster it was coddling in the incredibly naive liberal belief that this extremist cleric would be an improvement over the Shah.
-- Alexander Haig

#Iran #Paris #Giving

I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
-- Alexandre Dumas

#Paris #Pockets #Four

If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.
-- Ali Larter

#Running #Couple #Paris

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.
-- Allen Ginsberg

#Past #Paris #Wonderful

...the bewildering beauty of Paris...
-- Allen Ginsberg

#Paris

I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!
-- Amanda Seyfried

#Paris #Speak #Glamorous

When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.
-- Amelie Nothomb

#Paris #Want #Hats

Paris, true to its promise, had been a place of civilized indecencies, or uncivil decencies ...
-- Ana Castillo

#Paris #Promise #Civilized

Paris-New York, the two high tension magnetic poles between life, life of the senses, of the spirit in Paris, and life in action in New York.
-- Anais Nin

#New York #Two #Paris

When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.
-- Anais Nin

#Flower #Paris #White

[On Paris:] A city never entirely known, yet which gives you the feeling of intimacy, of possessing it intimately.
-- Anais Nin

#Cities #Paris #Giving

the pearl-grey city, the opal that is Paris ...
-- Anais Nin

#Cities #Paris #Opal

I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.
-- Andie MacDowell

#Country #Paris #Government

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.
-- Andre Leon Talley

#Humble #Russia #Paris

You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.
-- Andre Leon Talley

#Paris #Originality #Wonderful

When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.
-- Andrej Pejic

#Paris #Sitting #Casting

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 #Paris

Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise.
-- Anne Rice

#Heart #Paris #Promise

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.
-- Anne Rice

#Paris #Age #Ancient

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 #Paris

When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.
-- Arthur Rubinstein

#Paris #People #Cafes

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.
-- Asia Argento

#Paris #Want #Adopted

This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Nice #Rain #Paris

Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.
-- Augustus Saint-Gaudens

#Paris #Wonderful #Surprising

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.
-- Ayelet Waldman

#Views #Paris #Honor

Paris ain't much of a town.
-- Babe Ruth

#Paris #Towns

I don't like Paris so much.
-- Bam Margera

#Paris

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.
-- Baron de Montesquieu

#Philosophical #Lunch #Paris

Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
-- Barry Sonnenfeld

#Men #Paris #Black

I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.
-- Beau Garrett

#Paris #Sixteen #Months

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 #Paris #Casting

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

#Thinking #Paris #Political

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.
-- Beth Ditto

#Paris #Stories #Want

This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.
-- Bobby Heenan

#Paris #France

The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.
-- Boris Kodjoe

#New York #Paris #Modeling

Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this way it is possible to create work that refers the time span.
-- Bram van Velde

#Art #Essence #Paris

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 #Two #Paris

I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.
-- Bryan Ferry

#Memories #Paris #One Day

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
-- C. L. R. James

#Government #Paris #Democracy

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

#Paris #America #Rome

Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
-- Camille Claudel

#Paris #Parent #Rodin

I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
-- Camille Claudel

#Two #Paris #New Life

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.
-- Carl Van Vechten

#Cities #Paris #Care

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.
-- Cecilia Bartoli

#Beautiful #Song #Paris

Paris is so beautiful. Mr. President, you should really think about going there sometime.
-- Cecily Strong

#Beautiful #Thinking #Paris

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
-- Charles Dickens

#Paris #World #Made

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

#Wine #Paris #Six

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

#Paris #Important #Youth

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 #Paris #Movement

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

#Paris #Special #London

Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. It’s the first time an entire Third World country will have to get immunizations for a visitor.
-- Chelsea Handler

#Country #Paris #World

Paris Hilton is one of the hosts for Nicole Richie’s baby shower, and they’re serving sushi. Awesome, Paris—sushi, the one thing pregnant women are forbidden to eat. Thanks for the mercury.
-- Chelsea Handler

#Baby #Paris #Mercury

Paris Hilton has launched a new champagne in a can called Rich Prosecco. For the ad campaign Paris posed wearing nothing but gold paint. That’s a unique way to cover up herpes.
-- Chelsea Handler

#Unique #Paris #Gold

Let me tell you, though - there’s a huge difference between Flanders and Paris–Roubaix. They’re not even close to the same. In one, the cobbles are used every day by the cars, and kept up, and stuff like that. The other one - it’s completely different … The best I could do would be to describe it like this - they plowed a dirt road, flew over it with a helicopter, and then just dropped a bunch of rocks out of the helicopter! That’s Paris–Roubaix. It’s that bad - it’s ridiculous.
-- Chris Horner

#Differences #Rocks #Paris

With the development of the Christian Lacroix house in Paris and my work notably for the theater, it wasn't serious doing things by half.
-- Christian Lacroix

#Christian #Paris #House

Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee!
-- Christian Louboutin

#Beautiful #Cities #Paris

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

#Paris #People #Filmmaking

When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop.
-- Claude Debussy

#Paris #Two #Age

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 #Paris #Rejection

Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.
-- Clemence Poesy

#New York #Home #Paris

Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?
-- Clint Eastwood

#Paris #Hollywood #Film

I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.
-- Cole Porter

#Summer #Travel #Paris

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. It's like writing in Paris, but there are fewer people speaking French.
-- Colson Whitehead

#Coffee #Writing #Paris

When Paris Hilton can top the bestsellers' lists, we are one more Connect Four move closer to Armageddon.
-- Corey Taylor

#Moving #Paris #Four

the reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping ...
-- Cornelia Otis Skinner

#Paris #Saint #Towers

Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Paris #Towns #Resentment

there's something about Paris that gives you a mental slap all the time, and you can't just sit still and do nothing. You've got to work, to keep up with the pace, the sting in the atmosphere.
-- Daphne du Maurier

#Paris #Giving #Atmosphere

Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?
-- Darcey Steinke

#Paris #Spirit #Flew

Indecision is the source of chaos." - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night)
-- Darren Shan

#Night #Paris #Allies

From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.
-- David Byrne

#New York #Paris #Littles

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 #Paris #History

I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.
-- David Guetta

#Crazy #Paris #Ibiza

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.
-- David Guetta

#Paris #Eight #Parent

Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?
-- David Markson

#Thinking #Years #Paris

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

#Paris #Flippant #Appetite

Modernism probably wouldn't have happened without lesbians in Paris.
-- Diana Souhami

#Paris #Modernism

The best thing about London is Paris,
-- Diana Vreeland

#Paris #London

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
-- Diana Vreeland

#Paris #Firsts #Born

I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens.
-- Diane Kruger

#Paris #Imagine #Phenomenon

In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.
-- Diane Kruger

#Paris #Hiking #Hills

It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.
-- Dianne Wiest

#Crazy #Paris #People

Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
-- Djuna Barnes

#Past #Thinking #Paris

I was scouted when I was, like, sixteen, and I hated it. I wasn't ready to work. When I turned 19, I decided to move to Paris to pursue modeling for myself there. It was kind of a way to get out of the house and discover something for myself, in a way.
-- Dree Hemingway

#Moving #Paris #House

Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language; some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.
-- Dylan McDermott

#Sorry #Gay #Paris