Quotes About Eiffel

Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience.

Like man himself, who is the only one not to know his own glance, the [Eiffel] Tower is the only blind point f the total optical system of which it is the center and Paris the circumference.

One: See the two of them everywhere. Contemplate suicide. Would it seem too tourist-y to jump off the Eiffel Tower?

if awful, impression of watching a dotty inventor preparing to jump off the Eiffel Tower with a parachute made of pillowcases.

Mi corazón al calorcillo, tras su verjita de costillas, conejo agitado, acurrucado, estúpido. Al tirarte de un salto desde lo alto de la Torre Eiffel, debes de sentir cosas así. Querrías agarrarte al espacio.

Votre mari n'est pas là madame Eiffel - Non il est allé faire une tour.

You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.

Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.

Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished—which makes it slightly odd that the most iconic structure of the entire century, about to rise over Paris, was made of that doomed material. I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.

Un beso de todo París.

I head in the direction of the Eiffel Tower when I exit the alley, relieved to be out of the dark.

You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.

Eyfel Kulesi yeraltindan bilgiler alip gokyuzunden gelenlerle karsilastirir bunlari. Eyfel Kulesi'nin bize sinemadaki en korkunc imgesini veren kimdir? Rene Clair, Paris qui dort'tda (Uyuyan Paris). Rene Clair: R.C. Butun bir bilim tarihinin yeniden okunmasi gerekiyordu. Uzay yarisi bile anlasilir oluyordu: denizdibi akintilarinin, sicak hava akimlarinin -gorunmez gerilimlerin yerini belirlemek icin- yeekabugunun fotograflarini cekmekten baska bir sey yapmayan o cilgin uydular.

Morning SUN That awakens Paris The highest poplar on the bank On The Eiffel Tower A tricolored cock Sings to the flapping of his wings and several feathers fall As it resumes its course The Seine looks between the bridges For her old route And the Obelisk That has forgotten the Egyptian words Has not blossomed this year SUN

I look to the right as I cross the bridge and smile to see the tip of the Eiffel Tower soaring over rooftops in the distance on the other side of the river. I've seen it in photographs a thousand times, but seeing it in person for the first time that reminds me that I'm really, truly here, thousands of miles away, across an ocean from home.

Shepherdess, O Eiffel Tower, your flock of bridges is bleating this morning.

Bergère ô tour Eiffel le troupeau des ponts bêle ce matin - Zone -

Shaped like an enormous horseshoe, the Louvre was the longest building in Europe, stretching farther than three Eiffel Towers laid end to end.

I should go to Paris and jump off of the Eiffel Tower. If I took the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier.

We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal

She wanted to be at home, crowded in with her beloved Parisian-themed knickknacks—all her I LOVE PARIS plaques, miniature Eiffel Towers. All of her passwords and e-mail addresses were variants on Paris, a city she would never see.

The father of the tower was Eiffel—but the idea and the math were me.

Well, when you lit up the Eiffel Tower, you said something that sounded like eggness." "Ignis," the count said. "Latin for fire. No, you don't need to say anything." "Why did you do it, then?" Saint-Germain grinned. "I just thought it sounded cool.

I did finally make it to Paris, in June of 2010. And though most tourists go straight to the Eiffel Tower or the Louvre, or to Notre-Dame Cathedral, I headed for the chipped blue door of 74 rue du Cardinal Lemoine, Hadley and Ernest's first apartment in the Latin Quarter. The