Paris Quotes - Page 16

• If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.

  Denis Diderot

  Learning, Games, Skills

  Denis Diderot, Jacques Barzun, Ralph Henry Bowen (2001). “Rameau's Nephew and Other Works”, p.8, Hackett Publishing

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• 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.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Beautiful, Girl, Married

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• ... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran with the bulls at Pamploma. Yes, you're a pissant who had no hair in your armpits until three years ago - but so what? If you don't start out too big for your britches, how are you gonna fill 'em when you grow up? Let it rip regardless of what anybody tells you, that's my idea; sit down an smoke that baby.

  Stephen King

  Wisdom, Baby, Growing Up

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

  Al Yankovic

  People, Kevin, Stuff

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• At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.

  Giambattista Valli

  Language

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• 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, Looks

  Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

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• I love the romance of Paris. I love Angelina [tearoom and pastry shop]. I always get a Mont-blanc [pastry] there.

  Jason Wu

  Romance, Pastries, Shops

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• Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

  Carl Van Vechten

  Cities, Care, Firsts

  Carl Van Vechten (1922). “Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works”

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• Oh, but Paris isn’t for changing planes, it’s… it’s for changing your outlook, for… for throwing open the windows and letting in… letting in la vie en rose.

  Sabrina

  Rose, Window, Planes

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• She said, 'I'm your biggest fan,' and I said, 'Who are you?' She said, 'Paris Hilton.'

  Ricky Gervais

  Fans, Said, Biggest Fan

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• Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Real, Heart

  "Salman Rushdie condemns attack on Charlie Hebdo". www.englishpen.org. January 7, 2015.

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• 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.

  Francois Gautier

  Class, Catholic, Born

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• The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Art, Dancer

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “The East and the West: (Prachya o Paschatya)”, p.59, editionNEXT.com

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• I’m just mad for San Francisco. It is like London and Paris stacked on top of each other.

  Twiggy

  San Francisco, Mad, Bay Area

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• Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.

  Annie Dillard

  Summer, New York, Writing

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books

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• I envy the people who go to Paris the first time

  Marc Jacobs

  People, Envy, Firsts

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• Neil Shepard's (T)RAVEL/ UN(T)RAVEL takes us from the sublime -- Paris in Spring, sunset on Corfu -- to an unscheduled toilet stop in a Chinese desert as fellow passengers cheer. Yes, there's light at the heart of this book; but darkness too, as the world and the traveler unravel and re-ravel, fall together, come apart. Shepard proves the best sort of traveling companion -- lively, observant, incisive, eloquent, charmed by the strange and familiar, the old and new. Climb aboard these poems. Enjoy the ride.

  Charles Harper Webb

  Cheer, Spring, Fall

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• But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

  Hugh Dancy

  Culture, Dublin, Cafes

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• 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, Casting, Auditions

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• Frankly, I have no sex appeal. Just strolling in Los Angeles, London, or Paris, you will find a bunch of young guys like me. I am not James Dean.

  Robert Pattinson

  Sex, Guy, London

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• Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.

  Barack Obama

  Secret, Unions, Politics

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.274, Canongate Books

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• 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, People

  Anita Loos (1925). “"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady”

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• No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.

  John Vinocur

  Change, Cities, Arguing

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• We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

  Richard Perle

  Government, Europe, Should

  David Frum, Richard Norman Perle (2004). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, Ballantine Books

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• So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.

  Milos Forman

  Eyebrows, Prague, Left

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