1887 Paris Quotes & Sayings

There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we're living. — William J. Clinton

Beware of suretyship for thy best friend; he that payeth another man's debt seeketh his own decay. — Joseph Jekyll

an excuse to bring out the bottle of sherry and visit — Donna Tartt

Every silver lining has a cloud. — Mary Kay Ash

You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about. — Rian Johnson

I do triage on everything that comes through the door, and if it's not something we need (now, for real-not maybe someday) or something that deserves to be saved for posterity, it's discarded. I stop before I let myself drop something into a drawer or set it down on the piano. 'Where does it belong?' I think. If I don't have a place for it, I make a place. — Michelle Herman

You have to love what you're doing in order to find the energy. — Steven Van Zandt

The Tower of Babel" ...
The undersigned citizens, being artists, painters, sculptors, architects, and others devoted to and desirous preserving the amenities of Paris, wish to protest, in the name of our national good taste, against such an erection in the very heart of our city, as the monstrous and useless Eiffel Tower, already christened ... " The Tower of Babel" ...
How much longer is the City of Paris to be a play-ground for these barbarous and sordid imaginations which disfigure and dishonor her? For the Eiffel Tower, which even commercially minded America rejected, is a public dishonor to our city. All our historic buildings, our monuments of rare and appealing beauty, are dwarfed and humiliated by this monstrous apotheosis of the factory chimney whose odious shadow will lie over the city ...
Plea to the Exposition Director in opposition to the Eiffel Tower, signed by artists and writers and published in Le Temps, 1887 — Carol McCleary

Stop me when I'm making too much sense. — John Fairclough