Top 38 Eiffel Quotes

#1. Shaped like an enormous horseshoe, the Louvre was the longest building in Europe, stretching farther than three Eiffel Towers laid end to end.

Dan Brown

Eiffel Quotes #165876
#2. But Paris, all in all, isn't what it used o be, ever since that pencil sharpener, the Eiffel Tower, has been sticking up in the distance, visible from every angle.

Umberto Eco

Eiffel Quotes #1722009
#3. Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

Roland Barthes

Eiffel Quotes #1686388
#4. 984; 85; 3; 63;, 1,000,000
The Eiffel Tower is nine hundred eighty-four feet high. On a clear day, you can see eighty-five miles from the top. It has three elevators. Each elevator can carry sixty-three people. It cost about one million dollars to build Eiffel Tower.

Suzy Kline

Eiffel Quotes #1674323
#5. In order to satisfy this great oneiric function, which makes it not a kind of total monument, the [Eiffel] Tower must escape reason. The first condition of this victorious flight is that the Tower be an utterly useless monument.

Roland Barthes

Eiffel Quotes #1667037
#6. Statues and children frame the Eiffel Tower and its watery image. When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in the Tower to guide their night planes. The victorious United States Army requisitioned this landmark as a radar transmission point.

Maynard Owen Williams

Eiffel Quotes #1583311
#7. Like man himself, who is the only one not to know his own glance, the [Eiffel] Tower is the only blind point f the total optical system of which it is the center and Paris the circumference.

Roland Barthes

Eiffel Quotes #1536116
#8. Though it may be hard to believe today, the Eiffel Tower was initially met with derision by many Frenchmen, some of whom compared it to the Tower of Babel and complained that the "useless and monstrous" structure would obscure treasures such as Notre Dame.

Charles River Editors

Eiffel Quotes #1375810
#9. One: See the two of them everywhere. Contemplate suicide. Would it seem too tourist-y to jump off the Eiffel Tower?

Francine Prose

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#10. Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

Lalla Ward

Eiffel Quotes #1291601
#11. You know this means that what we did-what we almost did in Paris-"
"Going to the Eiffel Tower?

Cassandra Clare

Eiffel Quotes #1263900
#12. All the rest of [Shakespeare's] vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures - an Eiffel Tower of artificialities rising sky-high from a very flat and very thin foundation of inconsequential facts.

Mark Twain

Eiffel Quotes #1252098
#13. France is beautiful. I stood at the bottom of the Eiffel Tower today and looked up at it. There are
very few times in my life I've felt so small. The day I left you was one of them.
I miss you.
Ethan.

Leisa Rayven

Eiffel Quotes #1161591
#14. Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.

Bertrand Meyer

Eiffel Quotes #1124063
#15. As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a 10th person just started, so we are holding a conference, appropriately titled the TENTH Eiffel USER conference, to celebrate.

Bertrand Meyer

Eiffel Quotes #1056124
#16. When I was 18, I was halfway up the Eiffel Tower with my friend, Tom, when we decided to stick our heads through the railings. The gap between the railings was exactly the right size to be able to put your head through and nearly get stuck. Which is exactly what happened.

Robert Webb

Eiffel Quotes #1051104
#17. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.

Roger Ebert

Eiffel Quotes #876974
#18. Once we played for the Princess of Monaco in Paris. We were the biggest ducks ever, wearing rented tuxedos. We trashed the party, took a bunch of girls and champagne in limos underneath the Eiffel Tower, and set up an acoustic show. It was like a Hilary Duff movie.

Conrad Sewell

Eiffel Quotes #26529
#19. When President Chirac gave [President] Bush a souvenir statue of the Eiffel Tower ... Bush said 'This is great! A little oil rig!'

Jay Leno

Eiffel Quotes #268280
#20. I met this wonderful guy who owned an old pub near the Eiffel Tower called Malone's (he's French but it's an Irish name). He had a cellar with a piano and told me I could use it whenever I wanted to. I played lots of gigs down there. When I came back I played a show at the Knitting Factory.

Regina Spektor

Eiffel Quotes #358672
#21. I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.

Bill Bryson

Eiffel Quotes #421419
#22. Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and over in Britain you've got Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower, which are big buildings, so to speak.

Robbie Kearns

Eiffel Quotes #451703
#23. I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Ray Bradbury

Eiffel Quotes #536130
#24. We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal

D.J. MacHale

Eiffel Quotes #560350
#25. I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.

David LaChapelle

Eiffel Quotes #564600
#26. So this book is my phone call
not from the top of a mountain, or even the top of the Eiffel Tower: the "here" is negotiable. It's so beautiful here. You must come visit before you die.

Eloisa James

Eiffel Quotes #573289
#27. 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

Eiffel Quotes #620534
#28. To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu.

Thomas A. Edison

Eiffel Quotes #722484
#29. I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.

Natalie Lloyd

Eiffel Quotes #732158
#30. If we made an income pyramid out of a child's blocks, with each layer portraying $1,000 of income, the peak would be far higher than the Eiffel Tower, but almost all of us would be within a yard of the ground.

Paul Samuelson

Eiffel Quotes #812262
#31. I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.

Tyra Banks

Eiffel Quotes #845151
#32. You'll start talking, and pretty soon we'll all start nodding, and then the next thing you know, I'm hang gliding off the Eiffel Tower at night, being chased by ninja vampires

Kathy Reichs

Eiffel Quotes #934013
#33. I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am.

Gustave Eiffel

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#34. The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

Gustave Eiffel

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

James A. Baldwin

Eiffel Quotes #651270
#36. A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

Thomas Jefferson

Eiffel Quotes #1296943
#37. There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be the tallest edifice ever raised by man. Will it therefore be imposing in its own way?

Gustave Eiffel

Eiffel Quotes #1822069
#38. The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall.

Gustave Eiffel

Eiffel Quotes #1824165

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