Paris Quotes

Historically, when Americans don't know what to do next, they go to Paris. Benjamin Franklin is like: 'What am I going to do now? I'll go to Paris!'

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.

Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.

I'm someone who came to Paris as a teenager, and I dreamed of coming back to Paris as a visitor. I never dreamed of having a job at the biggest luxury house in Paris and, you know, 15 odd years later, I'm still here.

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.

I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

Most people are flying to Heathrow because it's a hub, so they can fly on to other places, often long-distance flights. If they can't go on those long-distance flights from Heathrow, they will go to Paris, they will go to Amsterdam, they will go to Frankfurt, because those are viable alternatives.

I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris.

It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.

I'd like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do.

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.

I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.

When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time.

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.

The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'

I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.

Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.

With an apple I will astonish Paris.

If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow.

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

I'm 50% Asian actually, so yes I was born in Paris but I feel more international than French so I can't talk about French women.

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about.

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub.