Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by French Authors - Page 20

Being able to feel free and comfortable in your character's skin is so important.

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

When I think about strong innovations in term of automation, robotics, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence, they are coming a lot from the Philippines and from India as well.

I feel totally French - I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

If I am happy in my personal life, I will be happy in my profession.

I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

I grew up in New York, in a rough neighborhood where our biggest concern was not getting beat up. I was always far from the center of the Big Apple.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

I think that I'm shy and I judge myself. But at the same time, I also have big contradictions. I can be sometimes sure of myself as well. I'm not always fragile and vulnerable. I can feel tough and strong.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

What I liked of Mourinho is his work ethic and the way he organizes his team against the opponent. He knows the strength and weakness of the opponent, and he will give the details for what he wants. And for me, that was impressive.

I consider myself a free man and a citizen of the world.

He made the impossible possible.

I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

I'm a bit like a diesel engine, you know.

Cronenberg's a lot of fun, and that a lot of people don't know watching his movies. He doesn't take himself seriously. He's still reinventing himself.

We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

Maybe apart from the World Cup, the Champions League is one of the most important trophies in the world of football.

I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

I'm living in the present. I have no ambition. It's true. But I want to live.

Stories are emotional journey where we can project ourselves emotionally in another space.

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.

If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

I gave my heart to the Americans and thought of nothing else but raising my banner and adding my colors to theirs.

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

I've fought hard to get where I am.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

You can be assured that I need no one's guidance in anything concerning propriety.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved - bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste. Taste is the enemy of art, A-R-T.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

I have to smile because we, as footballers, are really lucky to do the job we do. But this is not just a job for me. It's my passion.

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

The main thing is, wherever I play, I enjoy it and help the team.

At Juve, I learned to always want to win and be a protagonist.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

We're used to saying that women in other cultures are oppressed, but the question that I had when making the film was: Isn't the objectification of a woman's body that we often see in Western culture another kind of oppression?

My parents sacrificed everything for me. My father worked on a building site and as a driver - so many jobs. My mum was at home full-time to take care of me, my sister, and two brothers.

I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.

Southeast Asia food uses many different types of spices which are quite new to me, like the curry leaves which I saw at the Kreta Ayer wet market in Chinatown. With such spices used in cooking, this usually imparts a strong aroma to Southeast Asian food, which appeals to the senses.