There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as…

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

— Maya Angelou

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I love 'An American in Paris.' That's the one for me. Some of the visual ideas in that film are just haunting and very…

— Ryan Gosling

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

— David Sedaris

Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

For the first time I am working on a book that is not limited and that will take every bit of experience and thought…

— John Steinbeck

In ways I don't entirely have the words for, an experience, thought or a lesson isn't real for me until I've written down.

— Alexandra Fuller

“there is no new experience in life. something may happen to you that you think has never happened before, that you think is brand…

— Horace McCoy

“Experience has thought me that there is only one short step between Love and Hate, as there is between Life and Death.”

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

“Tell me what you make of Locke, then, and his difference with Descartes." Vivian took the book from him and spread her small hand…

— Lisa Kleypas

“So philosophy purifies the will. But philosophy is to be understood as experience and thought, not as mere reading or passive study.”

— Will Durant

A novel usually begins, in my experience, with a thought or image that won't leave me alone.

— John Lanchester

You've got Washington picking winners and losers. And so, all of a sudden, decisions are being made on what helps politicians, not what helps…

— Jeb Hensarling

My only experience with American things is through movies.

— Gabriella Wilde