All Quotes

Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

Paris is beautiful, but nothing beats home.
‐‐ Patrick Chan

Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love.
‐‐ Julian Barnes

Paris is great. I stay at the Ritz Paris - I'm good friends with the Director, Frank Klein, and the owner. I lived there 3 years; I was the only foreigner working at Maxim's. They only took French, which was a mistake.
‐‐ Sirio Maccioni

Paris is in a tranquil state; the infernal cabal that besieges me appears guided by foreigners. This idea consoles me, for nothing is so painful as being persecuted by one's own fellow-citizens.
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette

Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

Paris is one of my favorite cities, but Paris during Fashion Week is everything!
‐‐ Brad Goreski

Paris is one of the fashion capitals of the world and such an incredible breeding ground for designers. You can't help but find it an inspiring place.
‐‐ Alice Temperley

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

Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.
‐‐ Manolo Blahnik

Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.
‐‐ Clemence Poesy

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.
‐‐ Henry IV

Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society - which interests the heart. Every day, you may see something new, magnificent & beautiful; every night, you may see a spectacle which astonishes & enchants the imagination.
‐‐ John Marshall

Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl - a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig's tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20.
‐‐ Rosecrans Baldwin

Paris Singer had vastly more to do with shaping my character than Mother had; although Mother made innumerable sacrifices for me, and Paris Singer made none. I wanted to be like him.
‐‐ Preston Sturges

Paris will give bicyclists more rights when it installs 4,300 signs throughout the city, allowing them to barrel though red lights and turn right on red.
‐‐ Elaine Sciolino

Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn't want to be like them? That's the trick - to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.
‐‐ Naomi Watts

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.
‐‐ Serge Schmemann

Parity is for farmers.
‐‐ Seymour Cray

'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?
‐‐ Alex Gibney

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.
‐‐ Henry Mayhew

Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park.
‐‐ Jordana Brewster

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'
‐‐ Helen Mirren

Parkinson's is described as a progressive idiopathic neurodegenerative disorder, a brain disease that will worsen with time for which no cause has as yet been identified.
‐‐ David Perlmutter

Parkinson's is very hard to diagnose. So when I finally went to a neurologist, and he said, 'Oh, you have Parkinson's disease,' I was completely shocked.
‐‐ Linda Ronstadt

'Parkland' is not out to pick a fight and start a dialogue about conspiracy.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

Parkour is not just linear. There are moments that are intense and some that are lesser, so you have to move from one to another, and that becomes the musicality of Parkour.
‐‐ David Belle

Parkour is really a practice of getting to know yourself, what you're able to do, what are your limits. As you train, you start knowing what you can do.
‐‐ David Belle

Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.
‐‐ Thomas Hoving

Parks represent an efficient, cost-effective way to improve public health.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

Parks said, he's guilty and that's the end of the story.
‐‐ Tommy Bond

Parliament is supposed to be serious. It's not a place for jingoistic cheering.
‐‐ Jeremy Corbyn

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.
‐‐ Norman Tebbit

Parliament of the country is the repository of the sovereign will of the people, and its successful functioning is a joint responsibility of both the government and the Opposition.
‐‐ Pratibha Patil

Parliamentarians certainly know how to do bad public relations.
‐‐ Heather Brooke

Parma is an amazing Parmesan cheese substitute made from walnuts. It tastes like a dream and is healthy, to boot!
‐‐ Rory Freedman

Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who are non-Catholic.
‐‐ Mark Foley

Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
‐‐ Dan Aykroyd

Parody is homage gone sour.
‐‐ Brendan Gill

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.
‐‐ Karl Pilkington

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.
‐‐ Chevy Chase

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
‐‐ Edna St. Vincent Millay

Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
‐‐ Irrfan Khan

Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.
‐‐ Lynda Barry

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.
‐‐ Kelly Sue DeConnick

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
‐‐ Hanya Yanagihara

Part of America is we've always had people that can get things done.
‐‐ Stephen Pagliuca