Paris Quotes

• I've experienced all the food and restaurants in New Orleans. I've been doing a bit of touristing when I have the day off, just walking in the French Quarter. To me, it's very, very surprising how people are so friendly. But no, it's very different from Paris.

  

  Elodie Yung
  • People
  • Different
  • Food

• I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like running in the parks - even the food isn't as bad as it used to be.

  

  Eva Green
  • Food
  • Running
  • Born

• The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

  

  Geoffrey Beene
  • Fashion
  • Paris

• Paris will give bicyclists more rights when it installs 4,300 signs throughout the city, allowing them to barrel though red lights and turn right on red.

  

  Elaine Sciolino
  • City
  • Red
  • Paris

• There are plenty of cities that have given me the time of my life for a week or two - including Sao Paulo, Paris, and New York - but London has an enduring appeal that keeps on unfolding.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • Life
  • Time
  • Paris

• In Paris, I was really singing for the sake of living. But eventually people said, 'Keep going; you've got a great voice,' and I started having confidence in my voice all of a sudden. That's when I started creating my own music.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

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

  

  Edmondo De Amicis
  • Paris
  • First Time

• I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories, one of which was published in 'The Paris Review' in 1989.

  

  Amor Towles
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Paris

• Our talks in Paris tackled economic, democratic, security and political issues; we talked on means for combating terrorism, in addition to latest regional and international developments of mutual interest, especially those in region.

  

  Ali Abdullah Saleh
  • Political
  • Security
  • Economic

• So we came to the Ritz hotel and the Ritz Hotel was divine. Because when a girl can sit in a delightful bar and have delicious champagne cocktails and look at all the important French people in Paris, I think it is divine.

  

  Anita Loos
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• I cook. I did the Escoffier course in Paris when I was 21 in one of those periods when it was like a pause. I can cook anything Italian, Chinese.

  

  Marie-Chantal Claire
  • Chinese
  • Paris
  • Italian

• There are no nail salons in Paris - it is very expensive to do a manicure. I sometimes get one done.

  

  Lea Seydoux
  • Done
  • Paris

• ISIS is a virulent, nasty organization that has gained a foothold in ungoverned spaces effectively in Syria and parts of western Iraq. We have to take it seriously. They've shown in Paris what they can do in an organized fashion.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Fashion
  • Organization
  • Nasty

• I mean, I did ride the Paris subway in an attempt to get pick-pocketed in order to see how exactly they did it. My buddy was videoing the whole thing. No one picked my pocket. We got bolder and bolder as we went, but it didn’t pan out for us.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Paris

• If I have some free time, I leave Paris with some books about the cinema. If I'm not filming, I'm watching films.

  

  Francois Truffaut
  • Time
  • Free
  • Paris

• Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Know
  • Paris
  • Gondolas

• Eww," Jack said, and then giggled. "Yeah, and a Paris Hilton doll that had an optional brain."Aphrodite raised her brow at him. "Don't go all crazy. There are some things even Paris Hilton can't buy.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Crazy
  • Brain
  • Paris

• In Paris now, when I walk into stores and the shopgirls literally say to me every time, "We don't have anything in your size".

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Time
  • Size
  • Stores

• So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story.

  

  Jenny Agutter
  • American
  • Paris

• One is too taken up with all that one sees and hears in Paris, however strong one is, and what I do here [in Etretat] will at least have the merit of being unlike anyone else, at least I believe so, because it will simply be the expression of what I, and only I, have felt.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Being
  • I Believe
  • Expression

• I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Time
  • Men
  • War

• We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and Paris Hilton and the Kardashian sisters and 'Dancing with the Stars,' one thing after another, Kate Gosselin's new body.

  

  Philip Yancey
  • Today
  • Culture
  • Celebrity

• Los Angeles is one of the four cultural capitals of the world, but we don't attract as many cultural tourists as New York, London or Paris. I want to change that.

  

  Eli Broad
  • World
  • Paris

• Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Life
  • Time
  • Done

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