Paris Quotes - Page 9

• Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee!

  Christian Louboutin

  Beautiful, Cities, Faithful

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• I sketch literally all the time; constructing a collection is like building a family - you have to have a certain balance. I isolate myself - I need to be concentrated for this so I leave Paris, I leave to a place without a phone.

  Christian Louboutin

  Phones, Balance, Needs

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• I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women.

  Christian Louboutin

  Beautiful, Dream, Character

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• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Country, Latin, Europe

  Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.

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• Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I tried on a L'Oreal Paris iconic lipstick - it was instant glamour and I've been hooked ever since.

  Lea Michele

  Growing Up, Makeup, Age

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• We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city of Samarkand, whose crumbling palaces and mosques still welcome travelers on the Silk road. Weary of cities? Then we’ll take to the wilds. To the islands of Hawaii and the mountains of Japan, to forests where Civil War dead still lie, and stretches of sea no mariner ever crossed. They all have their poetry: the glittering cities and the ruined, the watery wastes and the dusty; I want to show you them all. I want to show you everything.

  Clive Barker

  New York, War, Lying

  "Galilee". Book by Clive Barker, February 3, 1999.

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• Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Book, Years, Wish

  Virginia Woolf, Samuel Solomonovitch Koteliansky, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Aleksandr Borisovich Golʹdenveĭzer (2006). “Translations from the Russian”

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• There are friends with whom we share neither interests nor any particular experiences, friends with whom we never correspond, whom we seldom meet and then only by chance, but whose existence nonetheless has for us a special if uncanny meaning. For me the Eiffel Tower is just such a friend, and not merely because it happens to be the symbol of a city, for Paris leaves me neither hot nor cold. I first became aware of this attachment of mine when reading in the paper about plans for its demolition, the mere thought of which filled me with alarm.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Reading, Attachment, Cities

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “The Chain of Chance”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Artemis: "Right, brothers. Onward. Imagine yourself seated at a cafe in Montmartre." Myles: "In Paris." Artemis: "Yes, Paris. And try as you will, you cannot attract the waiter's attention. What do you do?" Beckett: "Umm...tell Butler to jump-jump-jump on his head?" Myles: "I agree with simple-toon." Artemis: "No! You simply raise one finger and say clearly 'ici, garcon.'" Beckett: "Itchy what?

  Eoin Colfer

  Brother, Simple, Trying

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• The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. All of her clothes came from Paris (this was after Paris) and she had superb taste. (This was after taste too, but only just. And since it was such a new thing, and since the Countess was the only lady in all Florin to posses it, is it any wonder she was the leading hostess in the land?)

  William Goldman

  Husband, Land, Clothes

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.36, A&C Black

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• Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?" "Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?" "Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.

  Rick Riordan

  True Love, War, Heart

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette. But you’re not dead. I suppose the question must be, are you good?

  Karen Chance

  Ghost, Cigarette, Drag

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.652, Penguin

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• On Sunday morning I went out for a while in the neighbourhood; I bought some raisin bread. The day was warm but a little sad, as Sundays often are in Paris, especially when one doesn't believe in God.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Morning, Believe, Sunday

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever”, p.126, Profile Books

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• Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris. "Yeah, here's a rare grocery list," Dan muttered. "Wow.

  Rick Riordan

  Sitting, Amy, Tables

  Rick Riordan, James Dashner, Brandon Mull (2014). “The 39 Clues, Infinity Ring, and Spirit Animals Powerpack”, p.174, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.

  Barack Obama

  Funny, Sarcastic, Wisdom

  "The Senator's Humble Beginning" by Mark Leibovich, www.washingtonpost.com. February 24, 2005.

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• Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Rome, Hands, Cities

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.80, A&C Black

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• At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!

  Martha Graham

  Dancing, Ballet, Want

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• You chose to come to Paris, of all places,” Mencheres replied. So what? Got something against the French?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Mencheres

  Jeaniene Frost (2009). “Destined For an Early Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• anybody can be a princess. all you have todo is have the right parents. it's no harder than being born Paris Hilton, for God's sake. at least you remember to put on underwear in the morning, i'm assuming

  Meg Cabot

  Morning, Princess, Parent

  Meg Cabot (2016). “Royal Scandal”, p.68, Pan Macmillan

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• Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.

  Dan Brown

  Reading, Men, Ivy

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• Indecision is the source of chaos." - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night)

  Darren Shan

  Night, Allies, Chaos

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• If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.

  Sarah Vowell

  Spring, Reading, Writing

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Sep 05, 2015

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• Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

  Milan Kundera

  Moving, Home, Mind

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• A visit to Père Lachaise in Paris adds a year to one's life

  J. G. Ballard

  Years, Add

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• We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non reductive dualism, postmodernist grammatology and dicey dichotomies. But we would still be left with Nietzsche's preposterous mustache which instills great anguish and skepticism in the brain, which leads (as it did in his case) to utter madness. I suggest we go to Paris instead.

  Maira Kalman

  Mustache, Brain, Meaning Of Life

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