#paris

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#act #animal #box #comparison #does

I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#down #dutch #go #i #into

Oh, it was so hard to leave Paris, just about my favorite city in the world. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#city #favorite #hard #just #leave

Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison. ↗

— Claude Vorilhon

#been #brain #brains #brought #certainly

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#efforts #film #hours #i #knowledge

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds. ↗

— Gilbert White

#birds #country #full #hills #i

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish. ↗

— Gilbert White

#every #ground #numbers #parish #some

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets--as vast and indestructible as nature itself. All was embraced by her, by her volatile and enchanted populace thronging the galleries, the theaters, the cafes, giving birth over and over to genius and sanctity, philosophy and war, frivolity and the finest art; so it seemed that if all the world outside her were to sink into darkness, what was fine, what was beautiful, what was essential might there still come to its finest flower. Even the majestic trees that graced and sheltered her streets were attuned to her--and the waters of the Seine, contained and beautiful as they wound through her heart; so that the earth on that spot, so shaped by blood and consciousness, had ceased to be the earth and had become Paris. ↗

— Anne Rice

#age

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other? ↗

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

#books #fashion #paris #quotes #art

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew. ↗

— James Wolcott

#been #big #brady #bunch #celebrity