Paris Quotes
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The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.
Djimon Hounsou
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There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all wonderful.
Iris Apfel
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I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two days in Paris. 'What a Thrill.' He knows so much music, and he is the only person that I get the shakes trying to play my horn behind or with him (smile). However, it was a ball.
Ben Webster
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Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.
Karl Lagerfeld
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The day after I had my licence to drive, I made Paris/Nice at 230 km/hour.
Vincent Cassel
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You go to Paris, or you go to Portugal, you go to Poland, and you ask, 'Who are you people?' They'll tell you, we're Portuguese, we're Spanish, we're Polish. Who are the people that are really European? The people in Brussels, in the E.U. bureaucracy. Europe has not been able to move to the level of patriotic identification with the concept.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?
Djuna Barnes
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When people used to ask me what I missed about America, I would say, 'The optimism.' I grew up in the land of hope, then moved to one whose catchphrases are 'It's not possible' and 'Hell is other people.' I walked around Paris feeling conspicuously chipper.
Pamela Druckerman
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Paris is cafe culture, Dublin is pub culture, and that's the best place to solve all the world's problems: over a pint! One of the great joys of living, I think. The problems of the world seem to disappear.
Liam Cunningham
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In Paris, I quickly mastered the Foxtrot, the Shimmy and the One Step, he liked the Shimmy best: At first, the heel-toe was sort of tricky. Nowadays, they find ways around it.
Piet Mondrian
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If I had been born in Paris in the early 1900s and lived through World War II, I feel like my DNA would've been Henri Baurel.
Max von Essen
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The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.
David Attenborough
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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.
Arthur Rubinstein
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Kenzo were celebrating their 30th anniversary, and they did this big, huge show in Paris and invited back all the models who'd walked for them in the 30-year era. How I found myself in the mix, I'll never know.
Caitriona Balfe
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I went to drama school and, after that, went to Paris to train at a place called Ecole Philippe Gaulier. When I came home, I realised I'd have to have a serious stab at it. I didn't have an agent and didn't have the traditional drama school showcase, so I started a comedy group with a couple of friends.
Mathew Baynton
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When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.
Olga Kurylenko
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
Olga Kurylenko
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If you're in a small town somewhere and you can go and visit Paris, you can go to the top of Everest, that's just cool. It's worth it because you become more educated in something.
Jason Momoa
