Paris Quotes
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I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.
Eleanor Coppola
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He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.
Jimmy Buffett
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Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.
Raymond Berry
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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
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All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.
Jonathan Kozol
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I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'
Helen McCrory
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I'm pretty happy with the two cities I call home now - Glasgow and New York. But I'd like to give Paris a shot.
Kelly Macdonald
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It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as ever, in a cell with such doors as Paris never had for gates. The cell is the shape of a tall coffin, with an enormous dusty vaulting, a small window... Bach, my scrawls and waste paper - silence - you could scream - there would still be silence. Indeed, I write to you from a strange place.
Frederic Chopin
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Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.
Victor Hugo
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Paris is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
Albert Camus
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There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.
Simone de Beauvoir