Paris Quotes - Page 14

• In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.

  Jean-Paul Marat

  Revolution, French Revolution

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• 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, Car

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• One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country for white people. Not black. So I left. I had been suffocating in the United States... A lot of us left, not because we wanted to leave, but because we couldn't stand it anymore... I felt liberated in Paris.

  Josephine Baker

  Country, White, People

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• I have two loves: my country and Paris.

  Josephine Baker

  Country, Two, Two Loves

  "Women in France's Pantheon? I propose Josephine Baker" by Jessica Reed, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2015.

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• But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across a continent? If companies owning railways have been able to agree, why should railway workers, who would take possession of railways, not agree likewise? And if the Petersburg-Warsaw Company and that of Paris-Belfort can act in harmony, without giving themselves the luxury of a common commander, why, in the midst of our societies, consisting of groups of free workers, should we need a Government?

  Peter Kropotkin

  Government, Luxury, Giving

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• In Paris... I achieved a freer attitude toward anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all, I recognized the emptiness and futility of trying to "combat" anti-Semitism.

  Theodor Herzl

  Attitude, Trying, Emptiness

  "The Diaries of Theodor Herzl". Book by Theodor Herzl, 1956.

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• I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.

  George Sand

  Country, Profound, Water

  George Sand (2009). “The George Sand-gustave Flaubert Letters: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.201, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Cities, London, Facts

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.

  Frederic Chopin

  Musical, Ass, Pianist

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• When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

  Elliott Carter

  Flow, Very Sad, Sad Times

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• The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Drinking, Coffee, Glasses

  P. J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader”, p.154, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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, Peers

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• I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there. God knows how hard I tried to civilize her so as not to have to blush with shame when I take her anywhere. I dressed her in the most stylish Paris models, but Delancey Street sticks out from every inch of her. Whenever she opens her mouth, I'm done for. You fellows had your chance to rise in the world because a man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Girl, Mother, Men

  Anzia Yezierska (2014). “Hungry Hearts: Stories of the Jewish-American Immigrant Experience”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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• It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad.

  Frederick Forsyth

  Morning, Men, Squad

  Frederick Forsyth (1995). “The day of the jackal ; The dogs of war”

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• Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.

  M. John Harrison

  Dream, Cities, Vision

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• It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.............. Great art remains stable and unobscure because the feelings that it awakens are independent of time and place, because its kingdom is not of this world. To those who have and hold a sense of the significance of form what does it matter whether the forms that move them were created in Paris the day before yesterday or in Babylon fifty centuries ago? The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

  Clive Bell

  Art, Moving, Independent

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• Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated.

  Jon Hamm

  Stupidity, Kim

  "Kim Kardashian vs Jon Hamm! Sharon Osbourne vs Leah Remini! Whose Side Are You On In These Hot Celeb Feuds of the Week?" by Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. March 15, 2012.

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• 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

  Giving, Addresses, London

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• 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, Twenties

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• Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.

  Diana Vreeland

  Clothes, Mad, Forget

  Diana Vreeland (2011). “D.V.”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• Maybe I will go to Paris.
  Who knows? But I’ll sure as hell never
  Go back to Texas again

  James Crumley

  Texas, Hell, Knows

  James Crumley (2016). “The Final Country”, p.322, Vintage

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• For a painter, the Mecca of the world for study, for inspiration, and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it. No wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Daughter, Brother, Stars

  "Fictional character: Jerry Mulligan". "An American in Paris", 1951.

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• I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Thinking, France, Paramount

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• With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action, is going to fling across France today those reckless and uncouth sowers of energy who are the great professional riders of the world... From Paris to the blue waves of the Mediterranean, from Marseille to Bordeaux, passing along the roseate and dreaming roads sleeping under the sun, across the calm of the fields of the Vendée, following the Loire, which flows on still and silent, our men are going to race madly, unflaggingly.

  Henri Desgrange

  Dream, Powerful, Sleep

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• 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, Black, Firsts

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