Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
But how do European railways manage without them? How do they continue to convey millions of travellers and mountains of luggage across… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Paris in the mid-'50s was a very interesting place. It was only ten years after the Third Reich had left, and the… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
In 1994 while on weekend manoeuvres in France, I commandeered a Chieftain tank without permission of my immediate superiors. I then attempted… — Nick Frost Copy Share Image
What's this about?" "Finally. Interest," was the only response. "If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had ordered… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“For there comes a time in life when the pity previously reserved only for children takes on a different form, a time… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
In Paris, the doctors had struggled to make sense of my symptoms - anemia, fatigue and persistent infections. They ran test after… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris,… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
We were able to conclude a Paris climate agreement, which will lead the way for the rest of the world, which is… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Going to the Far East was my first eye-opener to a world vastly different from my own. Then when I was 16… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I don't like apartments - the idea of other people living, copulating and defecating above me - they make me feel as… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I could buy myself paper, a pen, a pencil and a brush and could create pictures whenever and wherever I wanted. ...… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
“By nature independent, gay, even exuberant, seductively responsive and given to those spontaneous sallies that sparkle in the conversation of certain daughters… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
