Montparnasse Quotes

#1. One way to disperse fear and create decision was to consider the worst possible outcome of one's actions.

Robin Hobb

#2. "Even Dwarfs Started Small," Calla replied immediately. "In the original German: Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen."
Maura winced, though Blue couldn't tell if it was at the movie or at Calla's accent.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. I realize it's not just Willem I'm looking for; it's Lulu too.

Gayle Forman

#4. A simple and tasty evening snacks.

Tamil Selvi

#5. They're pushing credit cards. They don't take Visa, but they do take American Express, or they don't take this one, but they take that one, or you'd better bring this one, or if you forget who you are, look on your credit card; it will be there.

Bill Janklow

#6. I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse.
I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea.
You may bury my body in Sussex grass,
You may bury my tongue at Champmedy.
I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass.
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

Stephen Vincent Benet

#7. I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!

Steve Jobs

#8. Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.

Sadie Jones

#9. When we parted, on the Boulevard du Montparnasse, I leaned over to give her a kiss on the cheek. 'If you do find paradise,' she said, turning to leave, 'send me a grape.

Adam Leith Gollner

#10. My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.

Jermaine O'Neal

#11. I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get.

Lloyd Banks

#12. I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy, but she had a sad little funeral in Montparnasse in Paris. It was rainy. It was all wrong. And I was thinking, 'God, she loved life so much.'

Marina Abramovic

#13. When you were building that all-important stairway to heaven, you couldn't just stand around with your hammer in your hand.

Stephen King

#14. I see myself as Kiki de Montparnasse, trying to get Man Ray's attention. (Sofia Navarro, 7th July 2012).

Sofia Navarro

#15. Nothing can be preserved that is not good.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. It is not by idle chance that I have come here.

Holly Weiss

#17. A miscreant with coiffed, scented hair, a slender waist, the hips of a woman and the chest of a Prussian officer, with a finely tied cravat, by all girls admired. ~ [introduction of character Montparnasse]

Victor Hugo

#18. Silence is the enemy of social change.

Marc Bekoff

#19. That was the dream of Montparnasse: to live for the moments of the greatest intensity, to find in them a truthful inspiration, and to hell with all the rest.

Philip Sington

#20. Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

Leni Riefenstahl

#21. I'm serious about the music, but I'm not serious about the fantasy. It's no big deal being on TV!

Marc Bolan