Statues and children frame the Eiffel Tower and its watery image. When the Germans occupied Paris, they housed a beacon light in… — Maynard Owen Williams Copy Share Image
Brioches are a light, pale yellow, faintly sweet kind of muffin with a characteristic blob on top, rather like a mushroom just… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
“He decides it is better to die in Ireland than in Paris because in Ireland the outdoors looks like the outdoors and… — Alison MacLeod Copy Share Image
“I was thrown together with Florence, or 'Florawns' as she was called, a pert girl of nineteen who worked in our kitchen… — Martine Bailey Copy Share Image
I want you teabaggers out there to understand one thing: while you idolize the Founding Fathers and dress up like them, and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I was friends with Susan Sontag the last four years of her life. She had this amazing charisma and so much energy,… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke… — Joan of Arc Copy Share Image
Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
“Hélène slowly surveyed the room. In this respectable society, amongst these apparently decent middle-class people, were there none but faithless wives? With… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
It was my first day working at Tour d'Argent, a famous restaurant in Paris, in 1982, and they were celebrating their 400th… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
I'm someone who came to Paris as a teenager, and I dreamed of coming back to Paris as a visitor. I never… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
“The directness of her question throws me. "I don't know. Sometimes I think there are only so many opportunities...to get together with… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“I came from Paris in the Spring of 1884, and was brought in intimate contact with him [Thomas Edison]. We experimented day… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“Almost immediately after jazz musicians arrived in Paris, they began to gather in two of the city’s most important creative neighborhoods: Montmartre… — Jeffrey H. Jackson Copy Share Image
Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Helen looked up at Paris, her face wet with tears and blotchy with grief, and nodded her consent. 'Together we are chained… — Janell Rhiannon Copy Share Image
I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, right outside your… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
[Kanye West] took me to a fashion meeting in Paris once. I'd never met these people; I was so nervous. It was… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady,' 'Funny Face,' 'American in Paris,' and 'Singin' in the… — Dianna Agron Copy Share Image
I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
My joke is a picture of David Bowie on his balcony in the '70s in a suit in Paris, and unless that's… — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris,… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
At the same time as the UK Vogue one, I did a shoot that took about 40 days of friends and people… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
ISIS is a virulent, nasty organization that has gained a foothold in ungoverned spaces effectively in Syria and parts of western Iraq.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Imagine Americans who go to Paris. Why would you want to go where someone's going to disparage you? Why would you go… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Thinking about her again caused his body to harden, to ready... "Uh, I'm happy to sit close to you and everything, but… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Under the Paris agreement, every one of the 147 signatories issues what is called an 'intended nationally determined contribution' (INDC), which amounts… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Every time I look down on this timeless town Whether blue or gray be her skies. Whether loud be her cheers or… — Cole Porter Copy Share Image
Ben Franklin was a little stout later in life and it was said that in Paris a young woman, tapping him on… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image