Quotes About The 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. Adele and Vladimir danced along the banks of the River Seine, the loveliness of spring a backdrop all around them.

Kristy Cambron

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

Yuna Kagesaki

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

AainaA-Ridtz

#6. 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

#7. Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

Euripides

#8. 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

#9. Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Horace Mann

#10. 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

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

Stephen Vincent Benet

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. You really have to love the work. You can't look for stardom. That's a by-product.

Donna Mills

#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. If you build software, every error message is marketing

Jason Fried

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

Adolf Hitler

#19. 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

#20. Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.

Amanda Peet

#21. One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

Spalding Gray

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. The bigger your mission becomes, the greater inspiration you will be given.

Ryuho Okawa