Paris In Quotes

#1. The Cubist paintings in the Centre Pompidou in Paris were strange but amazing. The big fat magical cat said they made her eyes hurt.

Jim Shanahan

#2. My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said, 'Tu es poubelle,' which means, 'you are the trash can.' I burst into tears. He was not happy about that.

Rachel Nichols

#3. The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.

Leon Krier

#4. I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

Thomas Mallon

#5. When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the U.K., and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.

Alexa Chung

#6. When the sommelier Enrico Bernardo moved to Paris from Italy nearly two decades ago, the world of French gastronomy brutally rejected him. No matter that he had won the competition for best sommelier in Italy; when he asked 30 restaurateurs for work in their wine cellars, all turned him down.

Elaine Sciolino

#7. 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

#8. April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

E.Y. Harburg

#9. I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.

Barry Sternlicht

#10. The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

Fred Allen

#11. Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.

Nina Berberova

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

Peggy Kopman-Owens

#13. Dude, if Kentucky is going to remind you of Paris, we're in a hell of a pickle.

John Green

#14. Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

Joshua Foer

#15. I always thought I'd live in Paris, Rome, Madrid - at least for a while. It strikes me now that I didn't dream of Zanzibar or Papeete or Tashkent: even my fantasy was cautious, a good girl's fantasy, a blanched almond of a fantasy. Today, even that is enough to clench my fists and curl my toes. In

Claire Messud

#16. Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

Paris Hilton

#17. I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies.

Suzy Menkes

#18. In each restaurant, I develop a different culinary sensibility. In Paris, I'm more classic, because that's what customers like. In Monaco, it's classic Mediterranean haute cuisine. In London, it's a contemporary French restaurant that I've developed with a U.K. influence and my French know-how.

Alain Ducasse

#19. I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there.

Jim Jarmusch

#20. Paris certainly needs to promote itself. Although still the most visited city in the world, it has fallen behind London and Berlin in terms of cool.

Janine Di Giovanni

#21. The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you.

James Patterson

#22. By and large, the Mexican food in Paris is horrible.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#23. Paris Hilton has launched a new champagne in a can called Rich Prosecco. For the ad campaign Paris posed wearing nothing but gold paint. That's a unique way to cover up herpes.

Chelsea Handler

#24. Pierre and Marie (then Maria Sklodowska, a penniless Polish immigrant living in a garret in Paris) had met at the Sorbonne and been drawn to each other because of a common interest in magnetism.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#25. Who would live in this rank old Paris if it was not for its gardens?" - John Sanderson

David McCullough

#26. I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

Marion Cotillard

#27. If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.

Gyorgy Ligeti

#28. In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

Jean Cocteau

#29. Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.

Orson Welles

#30. First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead.

Paris Hilton

#31. When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the markets and the French obsession with buying fresh food, often twice a day.

Alice Waters

#32. The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

Kitty Carlisle

#33. There will come a day A hazy day in May Or a storm in mid-December When you need someone Just to have a little fun Then I could be the perfect girl for you.

Paris Hilton

#34. It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor.

Julia Child

#35. It seemed my self defense skills had that effect on people, I thought, remembering when I threw Halette over my shoulder in Paris, twice.

Elle Klass

#36. The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded in stealing a throne required a reign of adventures, shady transactions, sold consciences, bought women, and rampant drunkenness.

Emile Zola

#37. When I really treat myself, I go to incredible Leonor Greyl in Paris for a head massage.

Natalia Vodianova

#38. But it was not the poor who ate the zoo animals in Paris.

Ceridwen Dovey

#39. I wanted to have a reaction from the audience. I wanted to be able to talk to somebody, and not be talking just to myself. That's when I did 'The Conformist,' 'Last Tango in Paris,' etc. And I found it was incredibly rewarding, something new.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#40. What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?

William Butler Yeats

#41. The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#42. Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

Hector Hugh Munro

#43. I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.

Nicolas Berggruen

#44. Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.

Barack Obama

#45. Paris rubbed his forehead against his, running his hands through Roan's hair, and said, 'How about we come back here
and exchange notes once we're done with the interviews? Take a long lunch.'

'Only exchange notes?'

'No one said we can't exchange notes in bed.

Andrea Speed

#46. I don't have sex unless I'm in a relationship. I'm old-fashioned when it comes to that. I really am!

Paris Hilton

#47. Soap?"
"School of America in Paris" he explains. "SOAP".
Nice. My father sent me here to be cleansed.

Stephanie Perkins

#48. I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

Yael Naim

#49. Here the sky is wrapped in silk. The breathings of so many men and animals, and the smoke of your coal, and the fog, oh, it is too much. The Paris sky is perfect. A man must see clearly, to see something new.

John Pipkin

#50. In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

Edmund White

#51. I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so I can't talk about French women.

Berenice Marlohe

#52. I'd rather sit in bed and watch TV. All of my ex-boyfriends, of course, not Paris, would be like, 'What's the problem? You're so not sexual.'

Paris Hilton

#53. The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.

David Cameron

#54. The door opens and he stands in the doorway, my handsome, psychopathic husband.

B.A. Paris

#55. Lunch is the best time of day to eat in Paris. Then you get to go walk it off afterwards.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#56. The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.

Kelly Jones

#57. The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.

Irving Stone

#58. I did 22 years in the military. I went through Paris Island. I'm a Marine. I will never not be one.

Montel Williams

#59. I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was doing graffiti - writing my name everywhere, using the city as a canvas. I was going in the tunnels of Paris, on the rooftops with my friends. Each trip was an excursion, was an adventure.

JR

#60. To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him.

Elaine Dundy

#61. She always seemed a little lost - in her thoughts, or in the world

Nicolas Barreau

#62. There's a very apt saying in show business: "If you don't go over budget in Paris, you're either very rich or very sick. "

Bob Hope

#63. If you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.

Arman

#64. I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.

Keren Ann

#65. There is no sin worse in life than being boring and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

Paris Hilton

#66. My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it.

Paris Hilton

#67. The human brain has a natural ability, inherent in its mechanism, to work on many levels, in a process of constant promptings, in a type of self-preservation.
If only humans understood ...
Most ignore it.

Amanda Dubin

#68. There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#69. On my early trips to London and Paris, in 2009, I started to shift to more wide-brimmed felt hats similar to Borsalinos and Stetsons.

Theophilus London

#70. I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb!

Berenice Marlohe

#71. He drove the car back through the night to Paris. The hedges and orchards of Normandy flew past him. The moon hung oval and large in the misty sky. The ship was forgotten. Only the landscape remained. The landscape, the smell of hay and ripe apples, the silence and the deep peace of the inevitable

Erich Maria Remarque

#72. It has been a wonderful experience to compete in the Olympic Games and to bring home a gold medal. But since I have been a young lad, I have had my eyes on a different prize. You see, each one of us is in a greater race than any I have run in Paris, and this race ends when God gives out the medals.

Eric Liddell

#73. Still teenagers, Harry and Peter Brant II have never disappointed when I've seen them out and about in New York, Paris, and Venice (Which is where all schoolkids go on field trips, right?) They're not afraid of wearing brooches, capes, embroidery, and even a dab-bing of makeup.

Derek Blasberg

#74. In the three months since I'd moved to Paris, I hadn't been to a single party. I was eager to get dressed up and go somewhere, dying to talk to somebody other than the guy who sold me my zucchini.

Elizabeth Bard

#75. Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

Oscar Wilde

#76. A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."

Abbott Lawrence Lowell

#77. Naturally, I've always been mad about clothes. You don't get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.

Diana Vreeland

#78. Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#79. I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out.

Gordon Parks

#80. In London, theatregoers expect to laugh; in Paris, they wait grimly for proof that they should.

Robert Dhery

#81. You'll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#82. There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.

Ridley Scott

#83. Paris is my favorite place in the world. I've never been there, at all ... But I wanna live there, even though I've never been.

Elle Fanning

#84. Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living, there is no place like home.

Henry Van Dyke

#85. All you have to do in life is go out with your friends, party hard, and look twice as good as the bitch standing next to you.

Paris Hilton

#86. A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh.

Kate Simon

#87. The bohemian life that reigned in Paris until the end of the '50s is gone. The artists had more time to think, to reflect; success didn't come so suddenly.

Pontus Hulten

#88. Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.

Vernon Duke

#89. I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.

Andie MacDowell

#90. In Paris, choosing a dress is a monumental decision. In Milan, it's a kick.

Chris Dee

#91. Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget anything. It reaches in and opens you wide, and you stay that way.

Leslie Caron

#92. I live in Paris, yet Monaco, where I spend a lot of time, holds a very special place in my heart.

Alain Ducasse

#93. In Paris the past is always with you: you look at it, walk over it, sit on it.

Elizabeth Bard

#94. Darren Criss in particular enjoys his spanking. In case you were curious.

Paris Barclay

#95. So what if the air
in Paris smells of romance?
My shirt smells of you.

Pooja Nansi

#96. Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

Serge Schmemann

#97. Only in Paris do couture workers, from seamstress to mannequin, worship a dress and treat it like a baby.

Pierre Balmain

#98. Back off, asshole. I haven't had a woman today, so I'm in no mood for this kind of bullshit.

Gena Showalter

#99. Anna wrote to her father that she found her new land "a barbarous country where the houses are gloomy, the churches ugly, and the customs revolting." Paris under Henry I was clearly not Constantinople, but more importantly, in Anna's eyes, it did not rank even with Kyiv.

Serhii Plokhy

#100. I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

Cole Porter