Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by French Authors - Page 16

We are lucky to be playing football for a living. For me, this is what I have always wanted to do.

Acting is like peeling an onion. You have to peel away each layer to reveal another.

French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

For a menu to come together, you have to have sweetness, saltiness, crunchiness... it's all about balance.

Makeup is about balance. When the eye makes a statement, the lips should be quiet.

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

Sometimes you meet people that try to explain to you your work, and how to write a song and how to sing it, and they explain that you are doing it the wrong way. And yeah, it's always super frustrating.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought.

I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.

Like the greats, you want to make your own story yourself, and not be a copy of another.

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

It's a massive club, and I am proud to sign for Chelsea, and I'm looking forward to playing.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

Music was a vector that we wanted to build a universe around.

If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed.

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

Even though I studied in New York and I know the American system, I come from France where I learned that with movies in France where the director is king. There's no such thing as a studio edit. It's the director's cut, period.

I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

I'm a minimalist. I don't really need much to enjoy a good holiday - just my family and the bare essentials.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

A cello was there 400 years ago and will still be here in 400 years.

Quality has no age.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Nobody will deny that there is at least some roughness everywhere.

Speed isn't everything, but he'd be a great striker at Atletico. Usain Bolt would be perfect for our game. Me behind and him up front. The best!

Is the cinema more important than life?

I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year we get together for a formal family photograph.

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

Football is definitely present in the tennis world. Given the mix of nationalities that exists in the changing rooms, there's inevitably a bit of a rivalry between the players, especially in terms of the UEFA Champions League or competitions in which national teams compete.

My mom gave me a Chanel dress when I was younger. I felt special. I think anybody feels special in Chanel.

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.

All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story!

You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.

Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

What I want to tell people is that you can mix the culture a little bit and it's not always appropriation.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

As I'm studying magic, juggling is mentioned repeatedly as a great way to acquire dexterity and coordination. Now, I had long admired how fast and fluidly jugglers make objects fly. So that's it. I'm 14; I'm becoming a juggler.

I can make everything I do come from my laptop. Even when I go to a big studio, all I do is to plug in my laptops. That's they way I do it.

Notre Dame and Sydney - that was nothing. Notre Dame doesn't have a police station; it is not 1,000 or so feet high. It was a public structure, very easy to access. And Sydney Harbour Bridge was half-and-half: a bridge, in the middle of the night. The World Trade Center was the end of the world. Electronic devices, police dogs.

Wild globalisation has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

You cannot speak on behalf of a nation when you have no mandate to do so.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.