Paris Quotes - Page 15

• What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

  Serge Schmemann

  Car, Done, Awful

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• I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.

  Emir Kusturica

  New York, Airports, Years

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• Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

  Kelly Miller

  Broken Heart, Broken Promises, Germany

  Kelly Miller (1919). “Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights ...: Why America Entered the Conflict ...& a Thrilling Account of the Important Part Taken by the Negro in the Tragic Defeat of Germany ...”

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• 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.

  Whitfield Diffie

  New York, Cities, Uc Berkeley

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• By the time I got to the Paris Conservatoire I was very good at the scales and arpeggios.

  James Galway

  Scales, Very Good

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• 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.

  Robin Leach

  Wine, Weekend, Land

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• I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

  Philip Guedalla

  Oxford, Streets, Suburbs

  Philip Guedalla (1921). “Supers & supermen: studies in politics, history and letters”

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• A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»

  Slavoj Žižek

  War, Guernica, World

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

  Darcey Steinke

  Spirit, Flew

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• I felt that Paris was illuminated by a splendor possessed by no other places.

  Isak Dinesen

  Splendor, Felt, Possessed

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• 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, Gold, Campaigns

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• 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, Mercury, Sushi

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• The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

  Ernest Gellner

  Car, Detroit, Obscurity

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• Think of Florence, Paris, London, New York. Nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he's already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and films. But if a city hasn't been used by an artist, not even the inhabitants live there imaginatively.

  Alasdair Gray

  New York, Book, Artist

  Alasdair Gray, Joy Hendry (1991). “Chapman”

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• I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano.

  Gordon Getty

  Piano, Bookstores, Language

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• Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on his protruding abdomen, said,"Dr. Franklin, if this were on a woman, we'd know what to think." And Franklin replied,"Half an hour ago, Mademoiselle, it was on a woman, and now what do you think?"

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Women, Thinking

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• In Paris, friend of Bequerel’s, a young physicist-chemist couple named Pierre and Marie Curie, began to scour the natural world for even more powerful chemical sources of X-rays. Pierre and Marie (then Maria Sklodowska, a penniless Polish immigrant living in a garret in Paris) had met at the Sorbonne and been drawn to each other because of a common interest in magnetism.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Couple, Powerful, Rays

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• 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.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Stay Strong, New York, Years

  Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• I used to say to my dad, 'How did you and Mom stay married for all this time?' and he'd say, 'Two things. Number one: You gotta have the same dreams. One person can't be daydreaming about walking down the street in Paris, the other person want to work in a coal mine. Number two: We never wanted to get divorced at the same time.'

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Mom, Dream, Dad

  "He Said, She Said: Celebs on Love". www.elle.com. February 13, 2012.

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• Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

  Christian Lacroix

  Sister, Book, Our Generation

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• It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.

  Anita Loos

  Sex, Fun, Race

  Anita Loos, Ray Pierre Corsini (1985). “Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings”

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• Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

  Jackie Collins

  Writing, Character, Years

  "Jackie Collins blasts boring young stars". Daily Dish, www.sfgate.com. October 18, 2004.

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• I had a teacher in Paris, who said that if an actor forgot what it's like to play as a child he shouldn't be an actor. I've always loved being with children. It's marvellous to see the fresh ways they see the world. Watching them look at a tree or a river helps you to understand something that's very important.

  Simon McBurney

  Teacher, Children, Play

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• In London, theatregoers expect to laugh; in Paris, they wait grimly for proof that they should.

  Robert Dhery

  Laughing, Waiting, Theatre

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• I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Reading, People, Moscow

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