Paris Quotes
758 Paris quotes by 545 unique authors
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I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a…
— Paul Johnson
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! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take…
— Sebastiao Salgado
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As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America was beginning its…
— Arne Glimcher
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In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs and…
— Janine di Giovanni
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Paris certainly needs to promote itself. Although still the most visited city in the world, it has fallen behind London and Berlin in terms of…
— Janine di Giovanni
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I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.
— Beau Garrett
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I went to Paris when I was about 18 and then went to Miami and New York. I did all of that alone. I did…
— Sunny Mabrey
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After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis…
— Paloma Picasso
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I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then…
— Juliette Binoche
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All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.
— Jonathan Kozol
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We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, all these beautiful looking women…
— Carine Roitfeld
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I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.
— Romy Schneider
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Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.
— Edward Rutherfurd
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I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck,…
— Suzy Menkes
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I just dreamed about living in Paris and being French. I always loved the visual arts, film and theatre, and I hoped to be involved…
— Maureen Chiquet
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When I went to Paris, I had a lot of ideas about it that were formed in the sort of ether that flows about if…
— Rosecrans Baldwin
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I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have…
— Rosecrans Baldwin
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My ambition was to be cosmopolitan. I grew up in the suburbs. I went to college in Maine. I had a dream in my head…
— Rosecrans Baldwin
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Lunch is the best time of day to eat in Paris. Then you get to go walk it off afterwards.
— Rosecrans Baldwin
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I think one of my favorite things about Paris is the ever-present, nonstop beauty of the city. So I would just walk as much as…
— Rosecrans Baldwin
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By and large, the Mexican food in Paris is horrible.
— Rosecrans Baldwin
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France and America have a long history of mutual loathing and longing. Americans still dream of Paris; Parisians still dream of the America they find…
— Rosecrans Baldwin
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Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris…
— Andy Behrman
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One of the big luxuries of being in Antwerp is that I can easily walk in the city. In Paris and New York, I am…
— Dries van Noten
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When I first went to Paris in 1965, I fell in love with the small, family-owned restaurants that existed everywhere then, as well as the…
— Alice Waters
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