Quotes About Paris Metro

#1. The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa.

Otto Schily

#2. My idea of working for a living is not going to office and earning a salary. It is to build a log house and catch my own fish and till some soil.

Girish Kohli

#3. It is a very heavy responsibility [to be a prime-minister] to make, but someone has to make it for our country and I am thrilled and honoured to have that opportunity and that responsibility.

Tony Abbott

#4. A powerful combination to ensure success is having the vision of an eagle and the heart of a lion.

Robert G. Allen

#5. Women should never carry purses in the Metro or on the street in Paris. Unless the bag is purely for show, that is. Money, credit cards and ID should never be put in a purse.

James Laxer

#6. Connoisseur, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else.

Ambrose Bierce

#7. I have a renewed commitment to elegance, she said, in case you think I'm just spending money for the fun of it.

Brian Andreas

#8. It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.

Lauren Graham

#9. There's plenty of great independent films to do, but you can't support yourself making independent film as an actress.

Gaby Hoffmann

#10. You weren't there.

Hammond Innes

#11. Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Benjamin Peirce

#12. If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist ... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit ... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

Guillermo Del Toro

#13. It's like looking at the sun, that's how infinity is. You can't look at it for too long or you dissolve. The bands of your attention break. But if you look at it in specific ways, you can become something or someone much more conscious.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Hirota feels strongly drawn toward nature and the natural, is hyper-sensitive to the artificial - particularly that most cramped and constraining man-made creation, society - and does his best to avoid it.

Soseki Natsume

#15. For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

William Shakespeare

#16. Bus routes reach the most obscure corners of Paris. There's also the Metro - and especially the great Line No. 1, which runs on tires under the Champs-Elysees and beyond.

Serge Schmemann