Paris Quotes

"Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles"

Cole Porter, Composer

"Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced"

Lee Krasner, Artist

"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand"

Vivien Leigh, Actress

"I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes"

Marc Jacobs, Designer

"I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized"

Marc Jacobs, Designer

"I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family"

Olivier Martinez, Actor

"The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown"

Jacques Derrida, Philosopher

"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers"

Tony Curtis, Actor

"It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach"

Ronald Harwood, Playwright

"It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues"

Philip Gibbs, Journalist

"When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it"

Gordon Sinclair, Journalist

"Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris"

Elliott Carter, Composer

"April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees"

E. Y. Harburg, Musician

"Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty"

Tyra Banks, Model

"In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent"

Roman Polanski, Director

"I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago"

Jim Harrison, Writer

"But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris"

Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer

"I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them"

Anna Held, Entertainer

"I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better"

Ernst Lubitsch, Director

"I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career"

Tyra Banks, Model

"If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow"

Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer

"I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went"

Paul Auster, Author

"The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community"

Marilyn Hacker, Poet

"We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time"

Elliott Carter, Composer

"I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything"

Isaac Mizrahi, Designer

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

Geoffrey Beene, Designer

"A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives"

Geoffrey Beene, Designer

"It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly"

Joan of Arc, Celebrity

"My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris"

Norman Rockwell, Artist

"I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago"

Andie MacDowell, Actress

"My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris"

Harry Mathews, Author

"Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke"

Rachel Perry, Celebrity

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