Edmondo De Amicis Quotes

One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again.

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• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • American
  • America

• London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Great
  • Love

• In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'

  

  Gaston Lachaise
  • Career
  • Woman
  • Vision

• If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Want
  • New York
  • Paris

• I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Time
  • First
  • Sunday

• I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Job
  • Decision
  • New York

• Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Career
  • Model
  • New

• I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, 'Okay, that's enough, I have to start doing something.' I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked them if they would give me a chance, and they did.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Different
  • Day
  • Thought

• There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all wonderful.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Different
  • Paris
  • Shopping

• The Lumiere brothers first exhibited moving pictures in Paris in 1896. A year later, there was a private showing at the Yildiz palace in Istanbul.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Moving
  • Year
  • Paris

• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • You
  • Paris
  • Shopping

• Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.

  

  Samina Baig
  • People
  • Time
  • First Time

• The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Flower

• Ted Cruz, who uses phrases like 'carpet-bombing' the people of ISIS and who said, after the incidents in Paris, that we need a war president, is using fear mongering and hate speech. As a citizen of the world, I'm very concerned that this kind of behavior is being cheered on by anyone. It only brings more pain and suffering.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • War

• My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said, 'Tu es poubelle,' which means, 'you are the trash can.' I burst into tears. He was not happy about that.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• Once again, we've seen an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians. This is an attack not just on Paris, it's an attack not just on the people of France, but this is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values that we share.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Paris

• Next week, I will be joining President Hollande and world leaders in Paris for the global climate conference. What a powerful rebuke to the terrorists it will be when the world stands as one and shows that we will not be deterred from building a better future for our children.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Children
  • Future

• I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

  

  Leslie Caron
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Paris

• You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.

  

  John Huston
  • Time
  • Great
  • Door

• On what possible basis would I want to stop someone from buying BHS if I had tried to save it?

  

  Philip Green
  • Stop

• If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Work
  • Art
  • Action

• One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again.

  

  Edmondo De Amicis
  • Paris
  • First Time