Paris Quotes Quotes & Sayings

The great correspondent of the seventeenth century Madame de Sevigne counseled, "Take chocolate in order that even the most tireome company seem acceptable to you," which is also sound advice today! — Barrie Kerper

They really showed very little understanding for a man and woman who were in the process of forgetting that there was anything or anyone else in the world except the two of them — Nicolas Barreau

The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

... she was a pudding of immaturity and precocious wisdom that had not yet set into a stable mold. — Mark Zero

I'd love to be a tabletop in Paris, where food is art and life combined in one, where people gather and talk for hours. I want lovers to meet over me. I'd want to be covered in drops of candle wax and breadcrumbs and rings from the bottom of wineglasses. I would never be lonely, and I would always serve a good purpose. — Maureen Johnson

I admit there are some beliefs upon which I do pass judgment and this is one of them: any belief that calls for the enslavement, maiming, or killing of another is corrupt, primitive, and never divinely inspired. — Charles F. Glassman

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it. — John Pomfret

Ah! Beautiful Paris! Where smiles bloom on stone. — Debasish Mridha

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other? — Peggy Kopman-Owens

The fact that Americans drag around the world by the busloads to glimpse the past probably has something to do with the youth of our country. We revere anything older than George Burns. — Erma Bombeck

He was like the Great Santini of the Strand. Few people could take him on; he was so well-read and had a memory that could retain every detail of everything he'd ever read, as well as jokes, lyrics, arias, names of store owners he'd met on his honeymoon in Paris, names of restaurants where gangsters were gunned down in 1924. He could quote lines from books he disliked better than you could quote lines from what you claimed was your favorite book of all time. — Jeanne Darst

I am a firm believer that you work as hard as you can, you're diligent, and God's gonna do with it what He wants to do with it. Whether it's big or little, it's still going to do what it needs to do and get into the hands it needs to get into. — John Reuben Zappin

Indulgence comes in all varieties: a mouthful of gourmet chocolate, a hot stone massage, a week in Paris or 20 uninterrupted minutes to get
lost in a book. — Gina Greenlee

Writers are explorers who find new worlds and use words to bring them to our reality. — D. Anne Paris

Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently. — Nat Friedman

I'd like to be a light meter."
"A what?"
"A light meter. Like a photographer uses. Tinks had one this morning." Aidan snapped an imaginary photo of me. "I'd like to be able to measure and know for certain whether people were giving off light or taking light away."
"You're strange," I said. "But I think I like that about you. — Amber Dermont

We have a saying in my country: If you must strike, make sure to follow the hurt with a kiss. — Anne Fortier

The story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light. — Kate DiCamillo

You will be my souvenir in American summer,
when all I can think about are Parisian springs. — Lori Jenessa Nelson