Paris Quotes - Page 3

• Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.

  Tyra Banks

  Beautiful, Appreciate, World

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• I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your window is the Eiffel Tower. In Egypt, the pyramids are right there. In the movies, every hotel has a monument right outside your window. My hotel rooms overlook the garbage dumpster in the back alley.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Back Alleys, Egypt, Tv Shows

  "Gilbert Gottfried: Travels of a miserable guy". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. April 8, 2008.

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• I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

  Cole Porter

  Summer, Travel, Drizzle

  Song: I Love Paris

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• Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

  Michael Simkins

  Past, Weight, Forget

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• I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

  Josephine Baker

  Insults You, Comeback, Frenchmen

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• No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Grace, Stories, Pressure

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• The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Art, Jobs

  "Fictional character: Gertrude Stein". "Midnight in Paris", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Wine, Glasses, Curiosity

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• Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

  Augustus Saint-Gaudens

  Wonderful, Surprising, Has Beens

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• She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture... They're officious and dull. They're always making profound observations they've overheard.

  Gene Kelly

  Girl, Kids, College

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• I'd like to see Paris before I die.

  Mae West

  Dies, Before I Die

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• The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Fashion, Influence, Instance

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• It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

  Robert Delaunay

  Research, World, Painting

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• Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Cities, Community, Wonderful

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• The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

  Jacques Derrida

  School, Sick, Nervous

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• The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

  Otto Schily

  Community, Members, Metro

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• I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

  Ed Bradley

  Travel, Cities, Three

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• I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.

  Lapo Elkann

  New York, Cities, Energy

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• If I weren't acting, I would own my own chocolate shop in Paris. I would be a nice, overweight person that makes chocolate all day long.

  Emma Bell

  Nice, Long, Chocolate

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• America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, America, Hometown

  "An American and France" (1936)

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• When good Americans die they go to Paris.

  Oscar Wilde

  Best American, Dies, American Cities

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891). Similar dialogue appears inWilde's A Woman of No Importance (1893) as well. See OliverWendell Holmes 4

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• In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Eye

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.645, Velvet Element Books

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• Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Art, Cities, World

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.73, Penguin

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• It is perfectly possible to be enamoured of Paris while remaining totally indifferent or even hostile to the French.

  James A. Baldwin

  French Culture, Eiffel Tower, Indifferent

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• Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

  Anne Rice

  Streets Of Paris, Age, Paris Fashion

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.246, Ballantine Books

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