Paris Quotes - Page 36

• What switched me to films was the flood of American pictures into Paris after the Liberation.

  Francois Truffaut

  Film, Liberation, Flood

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• I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Views, Honor, Wish

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• I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand.

  Emma Watson

  Love, Age, Worship

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• As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Men, Effort, Film

  "I Have Two Loves" by Harvey Weinstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2012.

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• Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew.

  James Wolcott

  Sex, Reality, Drs

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• For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.

  Alber Elbaz

  Dream, Home, Somewhere Else

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• I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'

  Helen McCrory

  Teenage, Dad, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Humorous, Three

  "Fictional character: Joe". "Everyone Says I Love You", 1996.

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• It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able to fathom. I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, i thought I was an artist. I no longer think about it. I am. There are no more books to be written, thank God.

  Henry Miller

  Book, Fall, Men

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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• She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the Eiffel Tower was a hideous symbol of phallic oppression but when ordered by her commander to detonate the lift so that no-one should unthinkingly scale an erection, her mind filled with young romantics gazing over Paris and opening aerograms that said Je t'aime.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Beautiful, Blow, Feminist

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.21, Random House

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• Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking, Feelings, Sometimes

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• It's called Paris, not Hilton, just me, because I don't want people to think it's my family's. It's mine.

  Paris Hilton

  Thinking, People, Want

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• My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention.  You are living without it: you are on vacation.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Loneliness, Home, Dark

  "Party of one" by Andrew O'Hagan, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. May 09, 2013.

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• Modernism probably wouldn't have happened without lesbians in Paris.

  Diana Souhami

  Modernism, Happened

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• I'm out here to bomb, period. That's what I started for. I didn't start writing to go to Paris, I didn't start writing to do canvases. I started writing to bomb... destroy all lines.

  Skeme

  Writing, Bombs, Lines

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• We have reason to believe that when, during the crusades, Europe at last began to establish hospitals, they were inspired by the Arabs of near East....The first hospital in Paris, Les Quinze-vingt, was founded by Louis IX after his return from the crusade 1254-1260.

  George Sarton

  Believe, Europe, East

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• I attended private Catholic schools in Paris and Los Angeles through high school.

  Natalie Massenet

  School, Catholic, Los Angeles

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• I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Travel, Earth, London

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.330, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• However, President Obama's unwillingness to attend the Paris march is a personal failing on his part that I believe does damage to the pride and soul of the nation he leads.

  Rick Ungar

  Believe, Pride, Soul

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• To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.

  Stendhal

  Struggle, Vanity, Class

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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• Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Fountain, Fountain Head, Civilisation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2469, Manonmani Publishers

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• He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little Poodle-English, he responds quickly only to commands in French. Otherwise he has to translate, and that slows him down.

  John Steinbeck

  Dog, Poodles, Littles

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.10, Penguin

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• This was a different form of French resistance in Paris on this day, all of these people coming together and sending out pictures like this to the world about the world we still want this to be, instead of the one that terrorists want, and that means all terrorists, the world where we live in constant fear.

  Kimberley Strassel

  Mean, People, Together

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• What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Bed, Dawn

  'Meditations in Time of Civil War 6: The Stare's Nest by my Window'

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• He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his own Foreign Ministry, had taken it upon themselves to issue Iranian passports to Jews escaping the very Holocaust they were aware of, but that he now denied.

  Hooman Majd

  Taken, Escaping, Issues

  Hooman Majd (2013). “The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran”, p.52, Penguin UK

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