Quotes About Seine

#1. 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

#2. Put on a trench, you're suddenly Audrey Hepburn walking along the Seine.

Michael Kors

#3. When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself.

Adyashanti

#4. Adele and Vladimir danced along the banks of the River Seine, the loveliness of spring a backdrop all around them.

Kristy Cambron

#5. I want to be bullied.
But in again and you'll pay."
"She ... wants to be bullied ... ?

Yuna Kagesaki

#6. A veiled Mind is more enticing than all the nude men lining up the Seine, during Summer.

AainaA-Ridtz

#7. When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

Mark Twain

#8. People can't hear anything except when it's nonsense. Then they hear every word. If you try to talk sense, they think you don't mean it, or don't know anything anyway, or it's not true, or it's against religion, or it's not what they are used to reading in the newspapers ...

Katherine Anne Porter

#9. Around the world, about a thousand dolphins are held in captivity, while millions have been killed in purse seine tuna nets and drift nets. Tens of thousands of others have been "sacrificed" in the name of scientific research, some marine mammals merely to find out what they've been eating.

Richard O'Barry

#10. Say what you will about Leona Helmsley, when it comes to standing trial, she's twice the man Jim Bakker is.

David Letterman

#11. It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#12. Seine and Piave are silver spoons,
But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn

Stephen Vincent Benet

#13. Laclos thought, how about a one-way ticket to Pennsylvania? You'd enjoy life among the Quakers. Alternatively, how about a nice dip in the Seine?

Hilary Mantel

#14. The main body of Vikings were given lands in the Seine basin in exchange for protecting Paris. They settled into northern France and within a century were speaking a dialect of French and became known as the Normans.

Mark Kurlansky

#15. Standing by the frozen glass, he stared down at the icy, barely lit streets running towards the river Seine, the bell-clanging local church, then to the sky like black lead. ("Israbel")

Tanith Lee

#16. No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them.

Charles Lyell

#17. Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

Adolf Hitler

#18. SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.

Ambrose Bierce

#19. A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it.

W.K. Marriott

#20. I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

Pete Townshend

#21. As the complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman puts it, A couple in love walking along the banks of the Seine are, in real fact, a couple in love walking along the banks of the Seine, not mere particles in motion.

David Eagleman

#22. When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

Ashley Judd