#paris

I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison. ↗

— Jonathan Miller

#brought #comparison #else #everything #frivolous

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#kills #lunch #other #paris #supper

People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different fields. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#developers #different #fields #games #good

In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything. ↗

— Isaac Mizrahi

#everything #feel #here #just #like

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#delights #does #earlier #earned #easy

But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now. ↗

— Rick Moody

#going #i #important #incessant #irrelevant

I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#beautiful #celebrated #changing #discovered #first

People gave us everything for free. We were allowed only so much film per picture, but there was no limit to the creativity. I like to say that they let us loose like wild dogs in the streets of Paris. ↗

— Helmut Newton

#creativity #dogs #everything #film #free

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#europe #except #home #paris

I think the attempt to draw a comparison between Iran and Syria is false, misleading and dangerous. ↗

— Ehud Olmert

#between #comparison #dangerous #draw #false