Paris Quotes

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!

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

I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.

The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

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.

So I'm not really quite sure what Landis' plans were to make another one. The American Werewolf in Paris was a completely separate story.

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

In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator.

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.

I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.

Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.

I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

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.