Coupole Quotes & Sayings

Summing it Up ... "Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or La Coupole in Montmartre." "Not La Coupole," I said. "I've been there before. That's the place that's crowded and noisy and smells bad and everybody's rude as hell, isn't it?" "I think you just described France," she said. — P. J. O'Rourke

When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off;
you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy.
... People fancy they are enjoying themselves,
but they are really tearing out their wings
for the sake of an illusion. — Rumi

The stars, like dust, encircle me
In living mists of light;
And all of space I seem to see
In one vast burst of sight — Isaac Asimov

When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being. — Jerry Hall

Be quick to say, "Sorry," be quick to forgive, and you'll always have friends, as long as you live. — James L. Papandrea

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. — Herbert Hoover

The heart sometimes leaps forward when the head tells us to be still. When this happens, patience is clearly called for as we seek to find a proper balance between impulse and discretion. — Alexander Clark

Devlin was as sleek and muscular as the black-and-gold tiger she had seen on exhibition at the park menagerie. Divested of his clothes, he seemed even larger, his broad shoulders and long torso looming before her. The texture of his flesh was heavy and tough, covered with skin that seemed hard but silken at the same time. His midriff was scored with rows of muscle. She had seen statues and illustrations of the male body, but nothing had ever conveyed this sense of warm, living strength, this potent virility. — Lisa Kleypas

I am no longer tied to the cliffs
Threats don't hold any ground
I have decided to fly high
On the winds of cool complacence — Balroop Singh

The best of humanity is philosophy. — Kedar Joshi

Are you functional?" - Leo — Cameron Jace

We're the only obstacle we need to overcome. — Renee Paule