Montmartre's Quotes

#1. Why is it that the people you care about the most end up making you feel so meaningless?

Sudeep Nagarkar

#2. It will lead many musicians out of the cul-de-sac they currently face. And those that do not understand will be cursed to make disposable music on laptops forever.

Chilly Gonzales

#3. The banker rubs his nose, thinking of his cat stalking something on the lawn.

Mason Cooley

#4. And when someone's asking you to do something in such a pleading way, everything goes against saying no. I

Kazuo Ishiguro

#5. Cultural variety is always worth striving for, but must never precede the declaration of human rights.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#6. Without the flesh. Suddenly life wasn't worth living.

Terry Pratchett

#7. One more thing. She wears Patchouli. Every tart in Montmartre wears it. Place Pigalle reeks of it. If she wants to carry out her pose as an aristocrat, she ought to refine her tastes.

Susan Vreeland

#8. If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

Kevin O'Leary

#9. Very well, I agree that two and two make four is an excellent thing; but ... two and two make five is also a very fine thing too.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two days in Paris. 'What a Thrill.' He knows so much music, and he is the only person that I get the shakes trying to play my horn behind or with him (smile). However, it was a ball.

Ben Webster

#11. In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre

Peggy Kopman-Owens

#12. The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.

Hamilton Leithauser

#13. Jacques' life was like the rooms of Montmartre women that are never cleaned because they get up at four o'clock and slip a coat over their nightgown to go downstairs and eat.

Jean Cocteau

#14. Study is the child of silence and mystery.

Henri Murger

#15. He was high up now, gazing across to where Montmartre itself gazed out over the city. He was swept along in the wind, admiring the twin steeples of Notre-Dame as he passed, along with the dogged, devilish gargoyles of St. Jacques.

Toby Barlow

#16. I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.

Ichiro Suzuki

#17. Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society.

Noam Chomsky

#18. Only weeks after Oslo began, when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace, I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.

Natan Sharansky

#19. If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.

Edward Steichen

#20. Things were sort of Bohemian in Montmartre - one lived, one painted, one was a painter - all that doesn't mean anything, fundamentally.

Marcel Duchamp