Quotes tagged ‘paris’

“Rusty Griswold: Who was it that said when in Rome do as the Romans do? Clark Griswold: That was Rome, not Paris. This is Paris and you're drunk.”

— John Hughes, Clark Griswold, Chevy Chase, imdb.com

“I was in Paris once, dressed extremely well, I thought. In silk and ribbons, ringlets in my hair. Very gay. Very ladylike. And even then someone mistook me for a... So no, I'm not a man. I'm a lady. A woman. I'm a lady-woman. I'm a woman.”

— Sally Wainwright, Anne Lister, Suranne Jones, imdb.com

“It's all well and good being different in York or Paris.”

— Sally Wainwright, Marian Lister, Gemma Whelan, imdb.com

“Pack your bags, grab your camera, and purchase your metro pass to start the European architectural photography tour...”

— The H Hub, thehhub.com

“How wide the sidewalks were! You stood in the middle of ours. Definite and debonair. Mama with a big black Patent leather handbag. Strap Draped over her arm. Chic. Loose coat holding no baby inside. Madaddy suited, slanted wide brim hat. At attention As if he were seeing Paris After the war. All smi…”

— Angela Jackson, apmpodcasts.org

“[to the Parisians] Citizens of Paris! Frollo has persecuted our people, ransacked our city. And now he has declared war on Notre Dame herself! Will we allow it?”

— Irene Mecchi, Tab Murphy, Jonathan Roberts, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White, Phoebus (voice), Kevin Kline, imdb.com

“That's one of the good things about Paris: lots of girls willing to take their clothes off.”

— James Cameron, Jack Dawson, Leonardo Dicaprio, imdb.com

“Jack: [deleted scenes] I never cared too much for all that Dadaism and Cubism. Just had no heart. Rose: I like some of it. Jack: Really? For me Paris was more about living on the streets and trying to put it on paper. Rose: You know, my dream has always been to run away and become an artist, Living…”

— James Cameron, Jack Dawson, Leonardo Dicaprio, imdb.com

“Hey, Rhoda, do you know what I'm doing? I am changing my clothes at eight o'clock at night so that I can go to a club where I'm going to lie about being divorced so that I can perhaps in a few months' time end up in Paris speaking Spanish.”

— Treva Silverman, Mary Richards, Mary Tyler Moore, imdb.com

“But there is not a single person employed in any way at the court, in Paris, or in the provinces, who is not acquainted with some woman through whose hands pass all the favors and sometimes all the wrongs which he may wish done. These women are all in each other’s secrets, and form a sort of republi…”

— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com

“Today, however, “ ‘intellectual life’ has disappeared from the Left Bank,” he says. The most interesting galleries migrated across the river years ago to the Bastille and the Marais, many of the great bookshops have closed — there is a Louis Vuitton boutique where La Hune used to be — and the Latin…”

— Jonathan Derbyshire, ft.com

“Well, fuck the real Paris. Let's go buy some cheese.”

— Sarah Treem, Sharr White, Sarah Sutherland, Noah Solloway, Dominic West, imdb.com

“What happened when I jumped off a famous building in France? Eiffel.”

— jmang00, reddit.com

“Life here [in Paris, 1885] is quite different. You hardly ever see a dog on a lead; you come across little wagons being pulled by dogs that are often so small that you can’t imagine how on earth they manage to shift such enormous weights. You see shepherdesses in the middle of the street herding goa…”

— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org

“I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation.”

— John Wesley, amazon.com