Halles Quotes

#1. On the morning after the daring theft of a priceless James Ensor painting from the Grand Palais in Paris, I was allowed to leave the Les Halles Police Station after only a few hours of questioning.

Mark Zero

#2. I could hear only the slight murmur of the city, faint and rhythmic as the breaking of waves on a distant shore. The statues glistened in the moonlight, and in the early morning hours the wind sometimes wafted the spicy aroma of vegetables from the near-by Halles.

Anonymous

#3. I'm a naturist at heart. I love being on beaches where everyone is naked. Ugly young people, beautiful old people, whatever. It's so unsexual and so liberating ...

Helen Mirren

#4. There's comfort in hearing a voice when the world is silent.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#5. I've never seen anyone more messed up over success than Richard Pryor. For him, it's a constant battle between success in the white world and keeping it real for his black self.

Paul Mooney

#6. When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want to shake my ass, not 'cause "I'm dancing like a black girl!"

Miley Cyrus

#7. A committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

Stella Benson

#8. The forest hugged Aomori

Ken Liu

#9. Charitable involvement, social impact, and global responsibility have always been important at Bain Capital.

Joshua Bekenstein

#10. God is not a person; God is a sacred personification of one or more deeply significant dimensions of reality. If we miss this we miss everything!

Michael Dowd

#11. What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

Gene Tierney

#12. We have to make a disciplined effort to find out what our governments are doing in these various parts of the world and what is actually happening. We have to learn to listen to each other's stories. Something we are not very good at.

Karen Armstrong

#13. Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.

Allegra Huston

#14. The dream on the pillow,
That flits with the day,
The leaf of the willow
A breath wears away;
The dust on the blossom,
The spray on the sea;
Ay,
ask thine own bosom
Are emblems of thee.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#15. As if it wouldn't rain without you...

Daya Kudari