Paris Quotes

• I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

  

  Leslie Caron
  • House
  • Paris

• When I left for college, I put Miami behind me and tried to have a life of the mind. I got a graduate degree. I traveled. I even married a fellow writer, whose only real estate was a dingy one-bedroom apartment in Paris, where we lived.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Real

• 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

• You know you've become a brat when you have a room you like at the Bristol in Paris.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Paris

• As a proud spokesperson for L'Oreal Paris, I have communicated the 'Because You're Worth It' message many times, and know firsthand how empowering it is to say and how empowering it feels.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Proud
  • Paris
  • Empowering

• Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.

  

  Edward Rutherfurd
  • City
  • Paris

• When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Cold
  • Clear
  • Lovely

• Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.

  

  Thomas Gold Appleton
  • Die
  • Paris
  • Americans

• One of the things I say is, 'You want to know what it's like to be a baby? It's like being in love for the first time in Paris after four double espressos.' And boy, you are alive and conscious.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Baby

• I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Paris
  • Condition
  • Pocket

• I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

  

  Adele
  • Singing
  • Cold
  • Sore Throat

• I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.

  

  Emir Kusturica
  • Paris

• I think Barack Obama 'll talk about the actions that we've taken, not just since 9/11, but since Paris, to help keep the American people and American interests safe.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Thinking
  • American

• Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who are supposed to understand Bach. I have no pretensions to understand better, but I do think that sometimes I can guess.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Mistakes
  • Correcting
  • Pretensions

• I was on the cover of French 'Grazia,' which was amazing. It was all over Paris!

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • Amazing
  • Paris

• The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.

  

  Boris Kodjoe
  • Time
  • Single
  • Paris

• When the Paris terror attacks happen, when war breaks out in Ukraine, when unrest happens in Ferguson, people know that CNN is the place to come.

  

  Jeff Zucker
  • People
  • War
  • Paris

• I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.

  

  Maria Semple
  • Writing
  • Imagination
  • Failure

• Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Paris
  • Visit
  • Elegant

• I have not been keeping up with it as much as I should have maybe, because it’s certainly-This and Paris Hilton are the kind of issues that seem to get a lot more attention than maybe some of us think they deserve.

  

  John McCain
  • Up
  • Attention
  • Paris

• I moved to Paris around 1995 or 1996; my first collection on the runway was in 1997.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • Paris

• The good news is that the Paris Agreement is not just a bilateral agreement between the United States and some other country. You have 200 countries who came together. It's an international agreement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Country
  • Together

• I have pictures of my grandmother from the 1920s and '30s in avant-garde dresses that looked like they could have come from the House of Worth or Lucien Lelong. She would never say if they were couture, but I do recall her telling me, 'All my clothes and shoes came from Paris.'

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • She
  • House
  • Shoes

• I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one's local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Enjoy
  • Beer
  • Locals

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