Paris Quotes

I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.

I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

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.

Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world.

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages.

The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted.

When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.

Good talkers are only found in Paris.

I lived in Paris when I was 20 and 21, and actually knew people that worked for the government there, that talked about terrorism in the country 20 years ago.

I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.

You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.

Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.

I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics.

Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.