How To Be Parisian Wherever You Are Quotes

#1. I scan the dark room, through the thrashing bodies of disillusioned Parisian youth, getting their anger out with a healthy dose of French punk rock.

Stephanie Perkins

#2. Parisian cousins nobody has heard from in decades now write letters begging for capons, hams, hens. The dentist is selling wine through the mail.

Anthony Doerr

#3. Americans want beauties, not me. I'm not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where's my feather up the ass? They think I'm sad, they're dumb. I don't connect to them.

Edith Piaf

#4. Parisian arrogance meant that nobody was important, nobody counted.

Douglas Kennedy

#5. Parisian men make love all day and have no time to work; American men work all day and have no time for love.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#6. Otar, her lover, said that when you walked behind her, and she knew you were walking behind her, the swing and play of those slim haunches was something intensely artistic, something Arab girls were taught in special schools by special Parisian panders who were afterwards strangled. Her

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. Did you know they call the tower the "Iron Lady"? Hmm. Isn't that Margaret Thatched called that, too? Frankly, they don't look anything alike to me. For one thing, Maggie has two legs, and the Parisian Iron Lady has four on the floor, like me.

Sheron Long

#8. Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#9. Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.

Sacha Guitry

#10. As a matter of fact I'd had my hair dyed a marvelous shade of pale red so popular with Parisian tarts that season.

Elaine Dundy

#11. When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.

Lloyd Alexander

#12. We're both aware that he knows everything about Parisian life, whereas I have he savvy of a chocolate croissant.

Stephanie Perkins

#13. Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one.

Catherine Malandrino

#14. But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet.

Francois Rabelais

#15. None will ever be true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows ...

Gaston Leroux

#16. To her amazement,Ellie breaks into an ear-to-ear smile.Oddly enough, it's this moment I realize that despite her husky voice and Parisian attire,she's sort of...plain. But friendly-looking.
That still doesn't mean I like her.

Stephanie Perkins

#17. The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

Charles Baudelaire

#18. The Parisian grocers insisted that I interact with them personally: if I wasn't willing to take the time to get to know them and their wares, then I would not go home with the freshest legumes or cuts of meat in my basket. They certainly made me work for my supper-- but, oh, what suppers!

Julia Child

#19. Paris was all so ... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Children, really quite small children, speaking fluent French!

David Nicholls

#20. The key to happiness is to listen to campy Parisian music and smile at a bird. It hinges on insanity, but it works.

Erica Goros

#21. gift.) I'm not bothered by the famous Parisian

Pamela Druckerman

#22. And what excites me most is the type of public, the fact that the Parisian people have a broader cultural understanding than many Americans do.

Herb Ritts

#23. Balthazar has a great New York vibe with the accent of a Parisian brasserie. I usually have the corned beef hash with a fried egg on top and wash it all down with Krug Champagne.

Daniel Boulud

#24. None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.

Gaston Leroux

#25. The supper was like most Parisian suppers: silence at first, then a burst of unintelligible chatter, then witticisms that were mostly vapid, false rumors, bad reasonings, a little politics and a great deal of slander; they even spoke about new books.

Voltaire

#26. I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings.

Susan Vreeland

#27. To err his human, to stroll is Parisian.

Victor Hugo

#28. The hero, the wonderful young Parisian in whom the romantic and the scientific temperaments were so strangely blended, became to him a kind of prefiguring type of himself. And, indeed, the whole book seemed to him to contain the story of his own life, written before he had lived it.

Oscar Wilde

#29. Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international communication. But in the early modern period, it was gradually displaced by French. By the eighteenth century, all the world - or at least all of Europe - aspired to be Parisian.

Michael Dirda

#30. Until you've been kissed on a rainy Parisian afternoon - you've never been kissed.

Woody Allen