Paris Quotes

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.

One day I realized I was living in a country where I was afraid to be black. It was only a country for white people. Not black. So I left. I had been suffocating in the United States... A lot of us left, not because we wanted to leave, but because we couldn't stand it anymore... I felt liberated in Paris.

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

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

A German officer visited Picasso in his Paris studio during the Second World War. There he saw Guernica and, shocked at the modernist «chaos» of the painting, asked Picasso: «Did you do this?» Picasso calmly replied: «No, you did this!»

I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

Prague is the Paris of the '90s.

When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop.

I always read everything on the desks of people I went to see in Moscow, London, Paris I found it quite useful.

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All of that was blown apart by senseless religious wars, financed and exploited in part by those who sought power and wealth. If women had been in charge, would they have been more sensible? It's a theory.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

I have studios in the different places where I live - in Ibiza, Paris and London - but they're not crazy studios, they're just rooms with good monitors, and all I do is plug my laptop in. It's a different way to make music, but for me, I love it, because it's more connected to the world.

I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling.

I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.

Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.

Carter Kane, 14, died tragically in Paris when he was eaten by his sister’s cat Muffin.

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.

My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.

Today, Paris is the capital of the world.

I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.

When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and so I gave up my job and moved to Paris at twenty-eight. I just held my breath and jumped. I didn’t even look to see if there was water in the pool.

I believe that love that is true and real creates a respite from death. All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well, which is the same thing.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.

If I weren't acting, I would own my own chocolate shop in Paris. I would be a nice, overweight person that makes chocolate all day long.

Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.

You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris.

I like Paris because I find something here, something of integrity, which I seem to have strangely lost in my own country. It is simplest of all to say that I like to live among people and surroundings where I am not always conscious of 'thou shall not.' I am colored and wish to be known as colored, but sometimes I have felt that my growth as a writer has been hampered in my own country. And so - but only temporarily - I have fled from it.

When Paris Hilton can top the bestsellers' lists, we are one more Connect Four move closer to Armageddon.

Paris isn't a city, it's a world.

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

The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life.

Um i'm happy to sit close to you and everything, but i had no idea you would like it so much,' Paris muttered.

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

It's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

At one time,
the earth was supposed to be flat.
Well,
so it is,
even today,
from Paris to Asnieres.
But that fact doesn't prevent science from proving that the earth as a whole is spherical.
No one nowadays denies it.
Well...we are still at the stage of believing that life itself is flat,
the distance from birth to death.
Yet the probability is that life,
too,
is spherical and much more extensive and capacious than the hemisphere we know.

We must institute a coup d'etat, a third revolution, which must beat down anarchy. Dissolve the Paris Commune and destroy its sections! Dissolve the clubs, which preach disorder and equality! Close the Jacobin Club and seal up its papers! ... The triumvirate of Robespierre, Danton and Marat, all the 'levellers', all the anarchists. Then a new Convention will be elected.

In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

(Jace) "Is there anything special you want to see? Paris? Budapest? The Leaning Tower of Pisa?" Only if it falls on Sebastian's head, she thought.

Being a Parisian is not about being born in Paris, it is about being reborn there.

It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.

The best thing about London is Paris.