Quotes and Sayings about Paris
"Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: War, Germany, Paris)
"When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States."
- Lloyd Alexander
(Related: Paris, states, University)
"The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi."
- Fred Allen
(Related: First, Paris)
"If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris."
- Keren Ann
(Related: Being, Paris)
"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."
- Keren Ann
(Related: Home, Bed, Paris)
"When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris."
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
(Related: Movies, Americans, Paris)
"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."
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
(Related: Creation, Paris)
"Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris."
- Thomas Gold Appleton
(Related: Americans, Paris)
"It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly."
- Joan of Arc
(Related: End, Paris)
"I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case."
- Adam Arkin
(Related: Comparisons, Environment, Resentment)
"I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I'd already been translating French poetry, I'd been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went."
- Paul Auster
(Related: Poetry, America, Paris)
"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."
- Francis Bacon
(Related: Trying)
"I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison."
- Erykah Badu
(Related: Thought, Emotion, Help, Holiday, Sharing, Spirit)
"In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison."
- Derek Bailey
(Related: Absence, Play)
"When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps."
- David Baker
(Related: Time, Now, Paris)
"Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?"
- Honore De Balzac
(Related: Life, Society, Time, Key, Mystery, Suicide)
"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."
- Honore de Balzac
(Related: Country, Paris)
"I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Love, Thought, Control, Career, Paris, Style)
"Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty."
- Tyra Banks
(Related: Beauty, Paris, World)
"The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French."
- Cecilia Bartoli
(Related: Living, Paris, Songs)
"I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing."
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
"If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop."
- Glenn Beck
(Related: Justice)
"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."
- Geoffrey Beene
(Related: Dress, Paris, Woman)
"The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion."
- Geoffrey Beene
(Related: Fashion, Influence, Now, Paris)
"But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked."
- Michael Behe
(Related: Development, Vision, Comparisons, Eyes)
"I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion."
- Raymond Berry
(Related: People, Paris, Thinking)
"How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt."
- Robert Blair
(Related: Guilt)
"They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!"
- Nellie Bly
(Related: Life, Being, Fault, Living, Prison)
"It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Related: Importance)
"The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month."
- Ed Bradley
(Related: Food, Peace, Clothes, Paris)
"I stayed three weeks in Paris, fell in love with the city, and decided that I was born to live in Paris."
- Ed Bradley
(Related: Love, Paris)
"I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris."
- Ed Bradley
(Related: Decision, Job, Paris)
"I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison."
- Benjamin Bratt
(Related: Love, Work, Wife, Daughter)
"The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires."
- Dorothy Corkville Briggs
(Related: Breeding, Comparisons, Feeling, Jealousy)
"I don't like Paris so much, and it's only eight shows. I mean, don't tell them that, of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me, my happiness is more important."
- Gisele Bundchen
(Related: Happiness, Paris)
"The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science."
- Samuel Butler
(Related: Science, Light, Now, Reading)
"The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up."
- Kitty Carlisle
(Related: Living, Paris)
"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."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Hollywood, London, Paris, Theater)
"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."
- Leslie Caron
(Related: Experience, Americans, Paris)
"When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time."
- Elliott Carter
(Related: Time, Paris)
"Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris."
- Elliott Carter
(Related: London, Paris)
"The mind of a human being is formed only of comparisons made in order to examine analogies, and therefore cannot precede the existence of memory."
- Giacomo Casanova
(Related: Being, Comparisons, Existence, Memory, Mind, Order)
"Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness."
- Willa Cather
(Related: Paris)
"A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness."
- Robert Cecil
(Related: Men, Wealth, Comparisons, Horses, Man)
"With an apple I will astonish Paris."
- Paul Cezanne
(Related: Paris, Will)
"One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital."
- Ron Chernow
(Related: Financial, London, Paris)
"We were in the same band, but we're two completely different people. People have asked me to make comparisons with our albums, and I can't, because there's no comparison. Her album's okay. I don't think she's the best singer on Earth, but she's okay."
- Melanie Chisholm
(Related: People, Comparisons, Earth)
"I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre."
- Steven Chu
(Related: Brother, Performance, School)
"Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it."
- Camille Claudel
(Related: Parents, Paris)
"I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter."
- Camille Claudel
(Related: Life, Nothing, Paris)
"In Paris, everybody wants to be an actor; nobody is content to be a spectator."
- Jean Cocteau
(Related: Actor, Content, Paris)
"Where was Paris Hilton a year ago? She's a fabulous character to write about."
- Jackie Collins
(Related: Character, Paris)
"Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris."
- Mason Cooley
(Related: Paris)
"The massive bulk of the earth does indeed shrink to insignificance in comparison with the size of the heavens."
- Nicolaus Copernicus
(Related: Earth)
"A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement."
- Francis Crick
(Related: Agreement, Measure)
"The audience that surprised us the most was definitely Paris, when we played there last. They were just incredibly into us and we weren't expecting it at all."
- Jon Crosby
(Related: Paris)
"I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers."
- Tony Curtis
(Related: Day, Paris, Summer, Will)
"But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture."
- Hugh Dancy
(Related: Culture, Ireland, Paris)
"I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris."
- John C. Danforth
(Related: Americans, Paris, Washington)
"I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness!"
- Kristin Davis
(Related: Girls)
"The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw."
- Humphry Davy
(Related: Art, Paris)
"The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure."
- Gerard Debreu
(Related: Occupation, Paris, Pressure, World)
"This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art."
- Robert Delaunay
(Related: Art, Soul, Communication, Earth, Evolution, Man, Moments)
"It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world."
- Robert Delaunay
(Related: Painting, Paris, Present, Research, World)
"People will always make comparisons."
- Don DeLillo
(Related: People, Comparisons, Will)
"I'm an adaptable nomad. I love Paris, I've been living in Los Angeles and New York since 1990. I love London, too. My roots are inside of me."
- Julie Delpy
(Related: Love, Living, London, Paris)
"The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown."
- Jacques Derrida
(Related: Experience, Time, Paris)
"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."
- Whitfield Diffie
(Related: Love, France, Paris)
"Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables."
- Vernon Duke
(Related: May, Paris, Visit)
"I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally."
- John Foster Dulles
(Related: Importance, Paris, Riot)
"We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings."
- Katherine Dunham
(Related: Success, Company, Paris, Years)
"Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned."
- Emile Durkheim
(Related: Dreams, Reality)
"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Related: Lies)
"Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat."
- Friedrich Engels
(Related: Dictatorship, Paris)
"In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary."
- Warren Farrell
(Related: Men, Thought, America, World)
"There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since."
- Raymond E. Feist
(Related: People, Comparisons)
"I was born in Paris, and I haven't moved, except until now - I live in the suburbs and I hate it."
- Luc Ferrari
(Related: Hate, Now, Paris)
"I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that."
- Bryan Ferry
(Related: Love, Day, France, Memories, Paris)
"Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony."
- Elizabeth Fishel
(Related: Death, Harmony)
"So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris."
- Milos Forman
(Related: Paris)
"The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience."
- Milton Friedman
(Related: Experience, Validity)
"Jealousy is the fear of comparison."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Fear, Jealousy)
"We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."
- Erich Fromm
(Related: Dreams, Act, Nothing, Sleep)
"Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."
- Neil Gaiman
(Related: Life, First)
"Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison."
- Mohandas Gandhi
(Related: Religion, Life, Man)
"Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison."
- Jerry Garcia
(Related: Death, Life, Drugs)
"I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early."
- Francois Gautier
(Related: Education, Paris)
"Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions."
- Sunil Gavaskar
(Related: Quality, Comparisons, Generations, Opposition, Play)
"The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry."
- Ernest Gellner
(Related: American, Obscurity, Paris, Production)
"I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano."
- Gordon Getty
(Related: Poetry, English, Paris, Poems)
"It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was a city of shuttered shops, and barred windows, and deserted avenues."
- Philip Gibbs
(Related: Deserted, Paris, Quiet, Shops, Windows)
"I think that, in comparison, New Yorkers and Northerners are so guarded."
- Genevieve Gorder
"I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy."
- Andrew Greeley
(Related: Responsibility, World)
"The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever."
- John Gunther
(Related: Chicago, Crime, News)
"Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young."
- David Guterson
(Related: Men, Journey, Mind)
"All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot."
- Ernst Haas
(Related: Beauty, Moods, Paris)
"If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact."
- Jurgen Habermas
(Related: History, Events, Terror, World)
"Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community."
- Marilyn Hacker
(Related: Community, Paris)
"April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees."
- E. Y. Harburg
(Related: April, Holiday, Paris, Trees)
"I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago."
- Jim Harrison
(Related: Chicago, Cities, Paris)
"In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth."
- Albert Bushnell Hart
(Related: Men, Time, Ideas, American, Americans, Possession)
"There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did."
- Owen Hart
(Related: Dad, End, Shame)
"It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach."
- Ronald Harwood
(Related: Love, Meeting, Paris)
"At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them."
- Anna Held
(Related: Home, Paris, Road)
"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."
- Ernest Hemingway
(Related: Life, Man, Paris, Rest)
"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!'"
- John Hench
(Related: Colors, Driving, Fight, First, Paris, Sky, Will)
"Paris is always a good idea."
- Audrey Hepburn
(Related: Idea, Paris)
"Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen."
- Eva Herzigova
(Related: Months, Paris)
"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."
- John Hickenlooper
(Related: People, Diversity, Paris, Richness, Today)
"The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Birthday)
"This is Earth. Isn't it hot?"
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Earth)
"You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Act, Will)
"Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Home, Kiss, Animals, Baby, Sleep)
"When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!"
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Paris)
"When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Dad, Family, Animals, Being, Camping, Fishing)
"Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?"
- Paris Hilton
"There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blonde, like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana and, right now, I'm that icon."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Now, Right, World)
"I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Power, Act, Cute, Difference, Dumb, Girls, Now, Old, Want, Years)
"My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!"
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Childhood, Kitchen)
"I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Love, People, Friends, Fun, Now, Worry)
"I take my dog Tinkerbell seriously. I take my job seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Job)
"I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Baby, Talk, Voice)
"I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Girls)
"I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Travel, Fact, Party, Projects, World)
"I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Wedding)
"I like it, but it's yellow, and I'm like, I didn't want yellow for my engagement ring."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Want)
"I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come."
- Paris Hilton
"I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Sex, Kiss, Months)
"I'm the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it. I'd run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Friends, Want)
"I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Friends, World)
"What's a soup kitchen?"
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Kitchen)
"I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Family, Money, Work)
"The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Life, Cute, Dress)
"It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Dream, Animals, Babies, Kids)
"It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was."
- Paris Hilton
"Life is too short to blend in."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Life)
"I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Funny, Heart)
"I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Past)
"A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Boyfriend)
"All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: People, Names, Pretty)
"All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Clouds, Judgment, Worth)
"Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Being)
"By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Opportunity)
"Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Life, Bed, Pets, Woman)
"Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Feelings)
"I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Love, Countries)
"I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Love, People, Voice)
"It will work. I am a marketing genius."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Work, Genius, Marketing, Will)
"I don't really think, I just walk."
- Paris Hilton
"I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting."
- Paris Hilton
"I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Paris, Want)
"I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Want)
"I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Men, Trust, Friends, Girlfriends)
"I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Life, Fun)
"I hate the taste of alcohol. When I'm drinking, I'm drinking Red Bull."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Alcohol, Drinking, Hate, Taste)
"I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Hate)
"First I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I realized you had to give them shots to put them to sleep, so I decided I'd just buy a bunch of animals and have them in my house instead."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Animals, First, Sleep)
"The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Boys, Years)
"That's hot."
- Paris Hilton
"Some people change when they think they're a star or something."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Change, People)
"Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Girls)
"One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Night)
"No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Woman)
"My mom decorated with lots of antiques. I never liked it when I was a little girl - I wanted to live in a modern house. But now I love it."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Love, Mom, Now)
"I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid."
- Paris Hilton
(Related: Living, Proof, Want)
"Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."
- Thomas Hobbes
(Related: Glory, Laughter, Nothing)
"Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison."
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
(Related: Beauty)
"Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past."
- Douglas Horton
(Related: Happiness, Past, Present)
"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."
- Harry Houdini
(Related: Money, People, Countries, Paris, Russia)
"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."
- Kate Hudson
(Related: People, Act, Career, Paris)
"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
- Arianna Huffington
(Related: Being, Children, Fact, Nothing, World)
"In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president."
- Karen Hughes
(Related: Mom, Daughter, Army, Constitution, Fact, France, Paris, President)
"Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be."
- Jeremy Irons
(Related: Life, Time, Energy, Old, 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."
- Marc Jacobs
(Related: Time, Work, Home, People, Friends, Office, Paris)
"I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized."
- Marc Jacobs
(Related: Funny, Paris)
"In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words."
- Bianca Jagger
(Related: Equality, Dreams, Law, Liberty, Paris, Value, Words)
"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage."
- C. L. R. James
(Related: Government, Body, Democracy, First, Paris)
"Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement."
- Gerald Jampolsky
(Related: Love, Fear, Absence, Questions, State)
"I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there."
- Jim Jarmusch
(Related: Literature, Paris)
"But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor."
- Donald Johanson
(Related: Opportunity, Comparisons, Years)
"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend."
- James Weldon Johnson
(Related: Money, Americans, Fact, London, Paris, Popular)
"When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make."
- James Weldon Johnson
(Related: Despair, London, Man, Paris, Sadness, Ugly)
"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."
- James Weldon Johnson
(Related: Life, Consideration, Paris)
"I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle."
- James Weldon Johnson
(Related: Beauty, Thought, Earth, London, Paris)
"I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days."
- Jeffrey Jones
(Related: Nature, Experience, Old, Want)
"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."
- Kelly Jones
(Related: First, Guitar, Paris, Pretty, Quick, Reason, Song)
"I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it."
- Al Jourgensen
(Related: Life, Living, Paris, Reality)
"All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire."
- Donald Kagan
(Related: America, Comparisons, Confusion, Ignorance, Meaning, Past, World)
"We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness."
- Mathieu Kassovitz
(Related: Love, People, Darkness, France, Hate, Light, Paris, Reality, Trying)
"But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish."
- Fanny Kemble
(Related: Class, Exercise)
"I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it."
- John F. Kennedy
(Related: Man, Paris)
"Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over."
- Peter King
(Related: People, Wealth, Afghanistan, Bureaucracy, Class, First, Iraq)
"The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single."
- Boris Kodjoe
(Related: Time, Paris)
"Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine."
- Barbara Kolb
(Related: Music, Housework)
"Well, let's say we acknowledged the School of French Painting - the Paris School of painting as the leading force and vitality of the time. I think that was understood and felt and experienced."
- Lee Krasner
(Related: Time, Force, Leading, Painting, Paris, School, Vitality)
"I don't know how you prepare for something like that. I cannot imagine living in a fishbowl like that. I don't live here so I don't know it will be that bad anyway because I live in Paris and we don't have that sort of phenomenon there. So I don't know, we'll see what happens."
- Diane Kruger
(Related: Living, Paris, Will)
"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."
- Christian Lacroix
(Related: Books, Grandparents, Paris, Sisters)
"You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing."
- Taylor Lautner
(Related: Nothing, Paris, Want)
"Whoever would have guessed that in the land of cheap sausages and mashed potatoes there could be such a change which would actually bring the French from Paris every weekend to invade Britain en masse to eat great food and drink great wine."
- Robin Leach
(Related: Change, Food, Land, Paris, Weekend, Wine)
"Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible."
- Yuan T. Lee
(Related: Accuracy, Calculations, Comparisons)
"When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken to every sort of play. I felt very grand."
- Vivien Leigh
(Related: Paris, Play, School)
"A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag."
- David Letterman
(Related: Time, Example, France, Iraq, Paris, Right, Thinking)
"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."
- David Letterman
(Related: Gay, Mind, Now, Paris, Yesterday)
"If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Paris)
"But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris."
- Gyorgy Ligeti
(Related: Paris)
"Mumbai is home, so there's no comparison. But then again, New York's a lot like Mumbai, which is why I choose to live there. It's fast, crowded (in a good way), the people are friendly and it's full of color and race, like Mumbai. Unfortunately, the traffic's also just as bad."
- Lavrenti Lopes
(Related: Home, People, Race)
"The moon is essentially gray, no color. It looks like plaster of Paris, like dirty beach sand with lots of footprints in it."
- James A. Lovell
(Related: Beach, Moon, Paris)
"I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better."
- Ernst Lubitsch
(Related: France, 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."
- Andie MacDowell
(Related: Government, People, Country, Paris, Terrorism, Years)
"In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless."
- Hugh MacLennan
(Related: Being)
"I think comparisons are odious."
- John Madden
(Related: Comparisons)
"Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power."
- Maimonides
(Related: Power, Greatness, Existence, Now, Rank, Respect, Space)
"I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family."
- Olivier Martinez
(Related: Family, Paris)
"The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison."
- Karl Marx
(Related: Civilization, Development, Conservation, Destruction, Production)
"My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris."
- Harry Mathews
(Related: Thought, Idea, First, Paris, Play, Study, Training)
"When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city."
- Harry Mathews
(Related: Challenge, Paris)
"Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions."
- John McCain
(Related: Founding, Now)
"My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and."
- Karen McDougal
(Related: Dream, Man, Paris, Will, Wine)
"The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today."
- Marty Meehan
(Related: Congress, Today, Washington)
"These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words."
- Felix Mendelssohn
(Related: Music, Soul, Words)
"When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold."
- Prince Metternich
(Related: Europe, Paris)
"I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison."
- Jonathan Miller
(Related: Pretty, Theater)
"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."
- Kelly Miller
(Related: Belgium, Day, Germany, Paris)
"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."
- C. Wright Mills
(Related: Financial, America, London, Nation, Paris, Rome)
"In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Living, Paris)
"I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that."
- Katherine Moennig
(Related: Impression)
"It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison."
- Ashley Montagu
(Related: Work, Happiness, Labor, Years, Youth)
"Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half."
- Charles de Montesquieu
(Related: Paris)
"But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now."
- Rick Moody
(Related: Literary, Now, Paris, Party, Universe)
"Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect."
- Richard Morris
(Related: Music, Talent, Self, Today, Will)
"The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door."
- Richard Morris
(Related: Education, Music, First, Will)
"A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man who is Himself the meaning of life."
- C. Kilmer Myers
(Related: Life, Man, Meaning)
"Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries."
- Pola Negri
(Related: Living, Stars, Taxes, Today)
"People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris."
- Helmut Newton
(Related: People, Creativity, Dogs, Film, Paris)
"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(Related: Home, Artist, Europe, Paris)
"I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'"
- Robert De Niro
(Related: London, Now, Paris, Rome, World)
"My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own."
- Sandra Day O'Connor
(Related: American, Court, Nations, Sense, World)
"If you speak or write truth about powerful men, they become your enemies."
- Matthew Paris
(Related: Men, Truth, Enemies)
"Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family."
- Sister Parish
(Related: Family, Generations)
"Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous."
- Sister Parish
(Related: Family)
"It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister."
- Sister Parish
(Related: Sister, HusbBeing, Confusion, Woman)
"The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come."
- Sister Parish
(Related: Years)
"It has not been an easy name, yet it has brought me many a laugh."
- Sister Parish
(Related: Name)
"I almost bumped into Alec Baldwin and then turned around and Paris Hilton was standing there. And I was like, 'Look, it's stupid spoiled whore.'"
- Trey Parker
(Related: Paris)
"I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out."
- Gordon Parks
(Related: Europe, Fact, Paris, Years)
"We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington."
- Richard Perle
(Related: Force, Paris, Washington)
"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!"
- Itzhak Perlman
(Related: Change, Hell, Paris)
"Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke."
- Rachel Perry
(Related: Girls, Paris, Will)
"Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to."
- Paul Pierce
(Related: People, Comparisons, Now, Past, Right, Style, Want)
"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."
- Abbe Pierre
(Related: Time, War, Law, Paris, Parliament, Poor)
"Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason."
- Albert Pike
(Related: Progress, Discovery, Doubt, Improvement, Judgment, Man, Questioning, Reason)
"In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent."
- Roman Polanski
(Related: Car, Being, Fact, Paris, Wrong)
"Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent."
- John Polkinghorne
(Related: Class, Years)
"I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles."
- Cole Porter
(Related: Love, Paris, Summer)
"The comparison to the old world is something to get excited about. We have the potential for more choice and innovation, and a different regulatory environment that doesn't place as much weight on economic regulations of terms and conditions."
- Michael K. Powell
(Related: Choice, Environment, Innovation, Old, Potential, Weight, World)
"If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris."
- Oscar De La Renta
(Related: Paris, Want)
"My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris."
- Norman Rockwell
(Related: God, Paris, Sense)
"If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed."
- Richard Rogers
(Related: Country)
"This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education."
- Roy Romer
(Related: Education, Nation, Rest, World, Years)
"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."
- Theodore Roosevelt
(Related: Success, Achievement, Children, Enjoyment, Importance, Interest)
"Prague is the Paris of the '90s."
- Marion Ross
(Related: Paris)
"How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons."
- Tim Roth
(Related: Comparisons)
"Paris ain't much of a town."
- Babe Ruth
(Related: Paris)
"Our talks in Paris tackled economic, democratic, security and political issues; we talked on means for combating terrorism, in addition to latest regional and international developments of mutual interest, especially those in region."
- Ali A. Saleh
(Related: Interest, Paris, Security, Terrorism)
"Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population."
- Edward Sapir
(Related: Time, Appearance, Limits, Population)
"The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences."
- Ferdinand de Saussure
(Related: Language)
"Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception."
- Pierre Schaeffer
(Related: Perception, Sound)
"The attacks on the Paris Metro in the 1990s were committed by members of the local Muslim community, immigrants from the Maghreb region of North Africa."
- Otto Schily
(Related: Muslim, Community, Paris)
"I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest."
- Martin Scorsese
"No man is happy but by comparison."
- Thomas Shadwell
(Related: Man)
"In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin."
- Michael Shermer
"It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood."
- Hu Shih
(Related: Value)
"When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it."
- Gordon Sinclair
(Related: Americans, Danger, Paris, Reward)
"Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris."
- Patti Smith
(Related: Paris)
"Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy."
- Barry Sonnenfeld
(Related: Men, Comedy, First, Paris)
"I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places."
- Tabitha Soren
(Related: Audiences, Comparisons, Present, Years)
"My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county."
- Catherine Helen Spence
(Related: Brothers, School)
"Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom."
- Willie Stargell
(Related: Comparisons, Freedom, Judgment, Limitations)
"I move between San Francisco and Paris... I have a wonderful beach house in California."
- Danielle Steel
(Related: Beach, Paris)
"America is my country and Paris is my hometown."
- Gertrude Stein
(Related: America, Country, Paris)
"True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things."
- Stendhal
(Related: Death, Love, Thought)
"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."
- Wallace Stevens
(Related: Art, Religion, People, Intolerance)
"I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much."
- Parker Stevenson
(Related: School)
"Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison. I am near, too near for him to dream of me."
- Wislawa Szymborska
(Related: Dream)
"Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!"
- Johannes Tauler
(Related: God, Exercise, May, Nothing)
"I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches."
- Sachin Tendulkar
(Related: Coaches, Comparisons)
"I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair."
- Evan Thomas
(Related: England, Labor, Party, Republicans)
"In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise."
- Virgil Thomson
(Related: London, Paris, Wit)
"There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform."
- Edward Thorndike
(Related: Food, Ideas, Act, Thinking)
"That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point."
- Edward Tufte
(Related: Nature, Difference, Laws)
"Good talkers are only found in Paris."
- Francois Villon
(Related: Paris)
"Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world."
- Tony Visconti
(Related: Favorite, Paris, World)
"Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison."
- Claude Vorilhon
(Related: Age, Computers, Children)
"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."
- Alan Watts
(Related: Comparisons, Night, Right, Stars, Universe, Wrong)
"I'd like to see Paris before I die. Philadelphia will do."
- Mae West
(Related: Paris, Will)
"The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds."
- Gilbert White
(Related: Birds, Country)
"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."
- Gilbert White
(Related: Numbers, Summer)
"The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district."
- Gilbert White
"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."
- Dianne Wiest
(Related: People, Fact, Paris)
"When good Americans die they go to Paris."
- Oscar Wilde
(Related: Americans, Paris)
"A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
(Related: Consciousness, Man, Public, Thinking)
"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris."
- Orville Wright
(Related: Flying, Machine, Paris, Will)
"There is no comparison between the training here and the training in Israel."
- Isaac Yeffet
(Related: Israel, Training)