Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by French Authors - Page 3

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren't the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation.

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

I like to think of myself as a modern defender rather than old school.

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

I don't have to justify my behaviour.

Greatness for me is the ability to focus under pressure.

I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances. In times of crisis, women eventually are called upon to sort out the mess, face the difficult issues and be completely focused on restoring the situation.

What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more pragmatic about the methods that we are using instead of pretending that we have our own scientific apparatus with very sophisticated mathematic models that distinguish us from sociologists and historians.

The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

I don't like modernity. I don't have television or the Internet at home. The Internet scares me. I can't drive a car.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

Creativity takes courage.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a great chef, there's nothing to stop you understanding the difference between what tastes good and what doesn't.

Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

I can walk into a room and create a good ambience. I was taught all about this back when I studied acting. One of the things they would teach you is how to send out positive signals when you enter a room. I am glad I learned this.

We will absolutely respect the law until we are in government at the national level and can change it.

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

I watched Gene Kelly for his smile, for his energy. Vittorio Gassman for his movement. Clark Gable for his mustache. And I watched Lassie who was happy as a dog.

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

Money is just a consequence. I always say to my team, 'Don't worry too much about profitability. If you do your job well, the profitability will come.'

I believe that transatlantic relations are very important and that President Bush's visit to Brussels, in a few days, will have a major impact on that.

Just like food, you could think peanut butter is your favorite food for 5,000 years and then be like, 'I actually like burgers better', you know? I was just trying to say that kids and people in general don't have to label themselves and say, 'I'm straight' or 'I'm gay' or 'I'm whatever.'

I'm curious. Period. I find everything interesting. Real life. Fake life. Objects. Flowers. Cats. But mostly people. If you keep your eyes open and your mind open, everything can be interesting.

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

Music has shaped men's fashion, and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who leads, but music and fashion are connected genetically.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

At the end of the day, I remain a country boy inside.

Movies are not finished. They are abandoned. A movie is never finished.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

There is a percentage of people who want to be a little bit outside their comfort zone and I am one of them, someone who lives on the edge.

The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It is all about desire. There is no difference between a love triangle and the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.

You don't need money to be creative. The ghetto builds champions every day.

Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.

Puberty is such a confusing time. You are still a child, with all that wonderful naivete and innocence, but your body is changing, and you're self-conscious and curious about its impact on others all at the same time.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.