Paris Quotes
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In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything. (Quote by - Isaac Mizrahi)
The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion. (Quote by - Geoffrey Beene)
When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. (Quote by - Gordon Sinclair)
Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke. (Quote by - Rachel Perry )
I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter. (Quote by - Camille Claudel)
I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes. (Quote by - Marc Jacobs)
The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw. (Quote by - Humphry Davy )
I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris. (Quote by - Ed Bradley)
The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month. (Quote by - Ed Bradley)
I'd like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do. (Quote by - Mae West)
The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up. (Quote by - Kitty Carlisle)
The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa. (Quote by - Otto Schily)
When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make. (Quote by - James Weldon Johnson)
I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better. (Quote by - Ernst Lubitsch)
In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator. (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)
It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly. (Quote by - Joan of Arc)
When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand. (Quote by - Vivien Leigh)
I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went. (Quote by - Paul Auster)
Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community. (Quote by - Marilyn Hacker)
I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to. (Quote by - Keren Ann)
With an apple I will astonish Paris. (Quote by - Paul Cezanne)
Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris. (Quote by - Patti Smith)
When good Americans die they go to Paris. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story. (Quote by - Jenny Agutter)
My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and. (Quote by - Karen McDougal )
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. (Quote by - Dianne Wiest)
So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris. (Quote by - Milos Forman)
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words. (Quote by - Bianca Jagger)
Paris ain't much of a town. (Quote by - Babe Ruth)
Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world. (Quote by - Tony Visconti)
When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold. (Quote by - Prince Metternich)
The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it. (Quote by - James A. Lovell)
Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen. (Quote by - Eva Herzigova)
In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it! (Quote by - Itzhak Perlman)
I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career. (Quote by - Tyra Banks)
Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. (Quote by - Willa Cather)
I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me. (Quote by - Julie Delpy)
Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it. (Quote by - Camille Claudel)
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. (Quote by - Cecilia Bartoli)
If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris. (Quote by - Oscar De La Renta)
When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city. (Quote by - Harry Mathews)
Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables. (Quote by - Vernon Duke)
The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure. (Quote by - Gerard Debreu)
One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital. (Quote by - Ron Chernow)
In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise. (Quote by - Virgil Thomson)
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. (Quote by - Andie MacDowell)
I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely. (Quote by - James Weldon Johnson)
I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there. (Quote by - Jim Jarmusch)
I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family. (Quote by - Olivier Martinez)
I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris. (Quote by - John C. Danforth)
Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. (Quote by - Friedrich Engels)
It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world. (Quote by - Robert Delaunay)
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. (Quote by - Al Jourgensen)
Prince, give praise to our French ladies For the sweet sound their speaking carries; 'Twixt Rome and Cadiz many a maid is, But no good girl's lip out of Paris. (Quote by - Algernon Charles Swinburne)
We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness. (Quote by - Mathieu Kassovitz )
I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York. (Quote by - Whitfield Diffie)
It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach. (Quote by - Ronald Harwood)
Prague is the Paris of the '90s. (Quote by - Marion Ross)
I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles. (Quote by - Cole Porter)
I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.' (Quote by - Robert De Niro)
Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty. (Quote by - Tyra Banks)
I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. (Quote by - Charles de Montesquieu)
If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris. (Quote by - Keren Ann)
In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent. (Quote by - Roman Polanski)
Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine. (Quote by - Robin Leach)
When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris. (Quote by - Jean-Jacques Annaud)
You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it. (Quote by - Kate Hudson)
I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion. (Quote by - Raymond Berry)
Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about. (Quote by - Jackie Collins)
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society? (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced. (Quote by - Lee Krasner)
When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States. (Quote by - Lloyd Alexander)
The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it. (Quote by - Luc Ferrari )
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. (Quote by - Francois Gautier)
Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages. (Quote by - John Hickenlooper)
I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important. (Quote by - Gisele Bundchen)
I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris. (Quote by - Paris Hilton)
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry. (Quote by - Ernest Gellner)
We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington. (Quote by - Richard Perle)
The audience that surprised us the most was definitely Paris, when we played there last. They were just incredibly into us and we weren't expecting it at all. (Quote by - Jon Crosby)
People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris. (Quote by - Helmut Newton )
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown. (Quote by - Jacques Derrida )
When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time. (Quote by - Elliott Carter)
The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick. (Quote by - Kelly Jones)
I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago. (Quote by - Jim Harrison )
I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London. (Quote by - Leslie Caron)
I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris. (Quote by - Ed Bradley)
It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues. (Quote by - Philip Gibbs)
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single. (Quote by - Boris Kodjoe)
In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president. (Quote by - Karen Hughes)
If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow. (Quote by - Gyorgy Ligeti)
When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps. (Quote by - David Baker)
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. (Quote by - Diane Kruger)
Our talks in Paris tackled economic, democratic, security and political issues; we talked on means for combating terrorism, in addition to latest regional and international developments of mutual interest, especially those in region. (Quote by - Ali A. Saleh)
My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris. (Quote by - Norman Rockwell)
I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle. (Quote by - James Weldon Johnson)
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. (Quote by - Orville Wright)
We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings. (Quote by - Katherine Dunham)
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. (Quote by - Barry Sonnenfeld)
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. (Quote by - Jean-Jacques Annaud)
I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities. (Quote by - Leslie Caron)
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. (Quote by - Bryan Ferry)
I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers. (Quote by - Tony Curtis)
I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally. (Quote by - John Foster Dulles)
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage. (Quote by - C. L. R. James)
The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary. (Quote by - Harry Houdini)
