Paris Quotes - Page 17

• It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own).

  Henry James

  New York, Growing, Way

  Henry James, Leon Edel (1987). “Henry James, Selected Letters”, p.184, Harvard University Press

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• 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, Modeling, Whole

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• 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.

  Philip Gibbs

  Morning, High Heels, Cities

  Philip Gibbs (1946). “The Pageant of the Years: An Autobiography”

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• In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

  Bianca Jagger

  Dream, Equality, Law

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• Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who are supposed to understand Bach (I have no pretensions to understand better, but I do think that sometimes I can guess).

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Philosophy, Mistake

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.205, Courier Corporation

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• I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.

  Frederic Chopin

  People, Ass, Concerts

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.154, Courier Corporation

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• It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as ever, in a cell with such doors as Paris never had for gates. The cell is the shape of a tall coffin, with an enormous dusty vaulting, a small window... Bach, my scrawls and waste paper - silence - you could scream - there would still be silence. Indeed, I write to you from a strange place.

  Frederic Chopin

  Writing, White, Hair

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• Paris isn't a city, it's a world.

  Francis I of France

  Cities, World

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• I spent 80% of my time working on this, and 20% of my time working on music. Why do you think the song 'Niggas in Paris' is called 'Niggas in Paris?' 'Cause niggas was in Paris!

  Kanye West

  Song, Thinking, Causes

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• My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

  Harry Mathews

  Play, Ideas, Training

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• The dream of a writer is to be surprised by his characters. All of a sudden, they are living their own lives; they are not prisoners anymore. . . . Tati taught me how to observe, how to sit in a cafe in Paris and to look at the passersby and to guess what their story is, even a little moment of their story.

  Jean-Claude Carriere

  Dream, Character, Taught

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• A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, made it the Olympic Games ideal adopted at the Antwerp Games in 1920. I never mentioned winning to my players. I mentioned constantly that all I wanted them to do was the best they could. If they're good enough, the score will be to their liking; if they're not, it won't be but that's nothing to hang their head about. Sometimes the other fellow is just better than you are.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Father, Winning

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• This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Army, Past

  "Conversations with Stalin". Book by Milovan Djilas, 1963.

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• 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!

  Itzhak Perlman

  Couple, People, Special

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• Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

  Lloyd Alexander

  War, Germany, Wales

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• Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.

  Victor Hugo

  Race, Sky, Cities

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.14

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• New York is what Paris was in the twenties. . . the center of the art world. And we want to be in the center. It's the greatest place on earth. . . I've got a lot of friends here and I even brought my own cash.

  John Lennon

  Art, New York, Twenties

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• I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Consideration, All Things, Enjoyed

  James Weldon Johnson (2011). “The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson”, p.160, Modern Library

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• Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in rock in hollows on mountains, which water no doubt deposited there enveloped in sticky mud, and which were prevented by coldness and dryness of the stone from petrifying completely. Very striking evidence of this kind is found in the stones of Paris, in which one very often meets round shells the shape of the moon.

  Albertus Magnus

  Science, Animal, Moon

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• I cannot prevent the French from being French

  Charles de Gaulle

  Vomiting, France

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• I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

  Thomas Mallon

  Wall, Sleep, Bags

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• 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, White, Russia

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• As for the role of France and Germany: French politics is often more self-confident then German politics due to the catastrophe in the first half of the last century. If Berlin and Paris don't agree, then it is difficult to make progress in Europe.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Self, Europe, Progress

  "Q &A with Wolfgang Schäuble". Interview with Derek Scally, www.irishtimes.com. August 24, 2012.

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• Believe me, I've done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers in the south of France or the Hamptons, walking in Connemara, and year-round shopping in Manhattan and Paris.

  Anne Robinson

  Summer, Believe, Years

  "Anne Robinson: after our Sri Lanka trip, will my daughter still speak to me?" by Anne Robinson and Emma Wilson, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.

  Samuel Rogers

  Thinking, Mind, London

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