Paris Quotes - Page 23

• Paris is a city of centralisation--and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point. We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear--and a voracious mouth to swallow.

  Bram Stoker

  Eye, Cities, Long

  Bram Stoker (2015). “The Burial of the Rats”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that's what I call a vacation.

  Jessica Alba

  Girlfriend, Vacation, Shopping

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• The Germans may take Paris, but that will not prevent me from going on with the war. We will fight on the Loire, we will fight on the Garronne, we will fight even in the Pyrenees. And if at last we are driven off the Pyrenees, we will continue the war at sea.

  Georges Clemenceau

  War, Fighting, Sea

  Quoted in J. Hampden Jackson, Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946)

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• Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.

  Maria Callas

  Fashion, World, Whole

  "Grande nuit de l'Opéra" by Marie-Jacques Perrier, Women's Wear Daily, December 20, 1958.

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• (Jean) Fautrier's exhibition (in Paris 1945,fh) made an extremely strong impression on me. Art had never before appeared so fully realised in its pure state. The word 'art' had never before been so loaded with meaning for me.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Art, Strong, Exhibitions

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• Aline and I have travelled a very long, very hard road together, from our working class homes in rural Quebec to the palaces of London, Paris, Moscow, and Beijing. Politics was the route, public service the reward.

  Jean Chretien

  Home, Class, Long

  Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.408, Vintage Canada

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• Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' (in Paris, ed.) and let himself loose... ...Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part... ...perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts... ...the parade of the queens of the halls (markets) is also one of the events... ...Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects - perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastley white in the sunlight.

  Edward Hopper

  Girl, Queens, Two

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• I love New York City for its energy. Pebble Beach, Carmel Beach and that all area, for its completely laid back energy. Paris for the charm, shopping and the glamour.

  Eva LaRue

  Beach, New York, Cities

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• Tax dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

  Sarah Palin

  Kids, Fruit Flies, Dollars

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Wise, Men, Forever

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• In our young days, when Modigliani and I first came to Paris, in 1906, nobody was very clear about ideas. But unconsciously, we knew quite a lot of things, of which we became aware later on.

  Gino Severini

  Ideas, Firsts, Young

  Interview; as quoted in "Letters of the great artists", Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson , 1963, p. 247, 1956.

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• Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice to Toledo (where El Greco painted a lot, fh). Expression is for one knowing its own pivot. Every expressor relates solely to himself - that is the concern of the individualist.

  Marsden Hartley

  Distance, Expression, Knowing

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• In order to win over Paris and appear, in the eyes of all Europe, an absolute innovator, the most advanced of all, I urge you to get to work with all your heart, resolute on being bolder, crazier, more advanced, surprising, eccentric, incomprehensible, and grotesque than anybody else in music. I urge you to be a madman.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Heart, Eye, Winning

  "Modernism: An Anthology". Book by Lawrence Rainey, p. 2, 2005.

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• My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.

  Colin Meloy

  Mother, Father, War

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• In Paris there are two dens, one for thieves, the other for murderers. The den of thieves is the Stock Exchange; the den of murderers is the Courthouse.

  Petrus Borel

  Two, Thieves, Dens

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• French Kiss - A Love Letter to Paris, is a tribute to many of the wonderful moments of romance, beauty, hope, and love that I have witnessed and been inspired by in Paris, my adopted home, over the past 40 years. I believe that photography is ultimately about sharing. I am excited to share, with the world, these moments of the heart that have touched my own, in this most beautiful city, Paris

  Peter Turnley

  Beautiful, Photography, Believe

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• Today's tragedy in Paris reminds us very viscerally that it's a right that some people are inexplicably forced to die for. So it's very important tonight that I express that everybody who works at our comedy show, all of us are terribly sad for the families and people of France and anybody in the world tonight who now has to think twice before making a joke. It's not the way it's supposed to be.

  Conan O'Brien

  Thinking, People, Tragedy

  "Jon Stewart on Paris Attack: "Comedy Shouldn't Be an Act of Courage" by Aaron Couch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 7, 2015.

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• Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?

  Clint Eastwood

  Hollywood, Film

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• The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'

  John Hench

  Fighting, Artist, Color

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• 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.

  Diane Kruger

  Imagine, Phenomenon, Know How

  "Diane Kruger for “Troy”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. May 6, 2004.

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• I'll just say this: The last problem Paris Hilton has is being in a John McCain ad.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lasts, Problem, Liberalism

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• There is something about big cities that turns me on, and for whatever mysterious reason, places like New York and Paris inspire me. I think it's because cities represent civilization, and as crime-ridden and broken down as some of them are, it's still better than skipping through a meadow.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Thinking, Civilization

  "Woody Allen by Moonlight". Interview with Uzoamaka Maduka, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 16, 2011.

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• New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Home, Thinking

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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• If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.

  Ice Cube

  New York, Rap, Thinking

  "The Believer Interview: Ice Cube". Interview with Linda Saetre, blog.longreads.com. December 2003.

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• The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is sitting in Paris sipping coffee.

  Regis Philbin

  War, Coffee, Army

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