Quotes About Montmartre

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

Peggy Kopman-Owens

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

Marcel Duchamp

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. There was no reproach either in their faces or in their hearts,
only the knowledge that they must die in order that he
might remain alive, and that this was part of the unavoid-
able order of things.

George Orwell

#8. Literature is an art, and the essence of all art is mood.

Salvador De Madariaga

#9. Canterbury was gone from the memories of men, as was the planet which had known it.

Frank Herbert

#10. A translation in verse ... seems to me something absurd, impossible.

Victor Hugo

#11. As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.

J. C. Chandor

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

Henri Murger

#13. A sense of growth is so important to happiness that it's often preferable to be progressing to the summit rather than to be at the summit.

Gretchen Rubin

#14. I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.

Laila Robins

#15. It's cool to be healthy now! It's cool to, like, drink fresh juices and drink Kombucha and all that stuff.

Brett Dennen

#16. I'm a small shifty kind of guy.

Dave Franco