Paris Quotes - Page 4

Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.

It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

Coming [to Paris] has been a wonderful experience, surprising in many respects, one of them being to find how much of an American I am.

I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier.

But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris.

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles.

I am working in Paris . I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working.

Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated.

Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

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.

They did not want anything to do with me in Paris and they were right: they have gone much further than I, but I will work and I too will progress.

I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.

My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.

If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.

Comparisons are odious.