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Paris Quotes (page 9)

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work. George Orwell
Sunday is a fixed star," he said."You shall see him a falling star," said Syme, and put on his hat. The decision of his gesture drew the Professor vaguely to his feet."Have you any idea," he asked, with a sort of benevolent bewilderment, "exactly where you are going?"Yes," replied Syme shortly, "I am going to prevent this bomb being thrown in Paris."Have you any conception how?" inquired the other."No," said Syme with equal decision. Gilbert K. Chesterton
If romeo was really gone, never coming back, would it have mattered whether or not juliet had taken Paris up on his offer? Maybe she should have tried to settle into the left-over scraps of life that were left behind. Maybe that would have been as close to happiness as she could get. Stephenie Meyer
A scientist places an ad in a Paris newspaper offering a free horoscope. He receives about 150 replies, each, as requested, detailing a place and time of birth. Every respondent is then sent the identical horoscope, along with a questionnaire asking how accurate the horoscope had been. Ninety-four per cent of the respondents (and 90 per cent of their families and friends) reply that they were at least recognizable in the horoscope. However, the horoscope was drawn up for a French serial... Carl Sagan
In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines. Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. In two straight lines they broke their bread. And brushed their teeth and went to bed. They left the house at half past nine. In two straight lines in rain or shine-The smallest one was Madeline. Ludwig Bemelmans
J. G. Ballard quote: "A visit to Pre Lachaise in Paris adds a year to one's life"
A visit to Pre Lachaise in Paris adds a year to one's life J. G. Ballard
Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky. Dan Brown
Emile Zola quote: "Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the..."
Kings may usurp thrones, republics may be established, but the town scarcely stirs. Plassan sleeps while Paris fights. Emile Zola
David Sedaris quote: "People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in..."
People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American. David Sedaris
Marcel Proust quote: "We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner."
We needed germans in Paris to hear Wagner. Marcel Proust
One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town. Nancy Mitford
Henri the painter was not French and his name was not Henri. Also he was not really a painter. Henri has so steeped himself in stories of the Left Bank in Paris that he lived there although he had never been there. John Steinbeck
Emile M. Cioran quote: "S faci dou zile de drum ca sa fugi de Paris, i s regseti..."
S faci dou zile de drum ca sa fugi de Paris, i s regseti radioul, tranzistorul etc, tot ce detestai cnd ai plecat. Emile M. Cioran
There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even—the French air clears up the brain and does good—a world of good. Vincent Van Gogh
Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished—which makes it slightly odd that the most iconic structure of the entire century, about to rise over Paris, was made of that doomed material. I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time. Bill Bryson

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