Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by French Authors - Page 17

Cinema builds memories; great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. We are naturally capable of and prone to nostalgia. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion. One critic, for example, once gave the finger to one of my films; later he wrote me to apologize.

I'm quite shy and quite reserved. But when things start heating up, I don't hesitate to show my character, whether that's in good moments, like when we won the World Cup, or more difficult moments.

My dad is the Frenchest man alive, but totally dresses like a cowboy and is obsessed with vintage.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

I took the test for AIDS. I began to hate people who were not sick. Those people are monsters, I would think, believing that they are well because of moral superiority, because they are good. I identified with the loneliness of the sick. I felt that there was something pure about them.

I had no doubts I wanted to be a footballer because that was the only option.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.

As CEO of Accenture, I am not French anymore. When I'm in India, I am Indian. We are a company with no physical headquarters. We operate on a virtual level. Our leadership meetings are teleconferences, which is why the Board asked me to stay on in France. And I tell others to stay in their own countries.

In England, football is a religion. In France, football is not a religion. It's wine and food.

A mimetic crisis is when people become undifferentiated. There are no more social classes, there are no more social differences, and so forth.

'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

It is always good to be careful or vigilant.

I am interested in ideas, not merely in visual products.

I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

Nature has made men free and equal. The distinctions necessary for social order are only founded on general utility.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

You wanted me to do what? That I say no a second time to Barcelona? It was impossible for me. I'm in a crazy club there, next to the best. Every year, the club is semi-finalist or finalist of the Champions League!

Being on the sidelines is no fun for me.

In the third month, the sun rising, the Boar and the Leopard on the field of Mars to fight; The tired Leopard raises its eye to the heavens, sees an eagle playing around the sun.

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.

Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.

I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Diet is essential for a player, and I have to look after myself.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

I'm very inspired by other cultures and very often use what I perceive to be exotic ingredients.

All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice.

In certain environments young adults can't choose their lives because of family pressure. In the bourgeoisie there is still a sense you will marry within that milieu.

When I go to the movie theater, I want to get emotion from the actors in the movie.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

The key thing is knowing how to adapt. Adapting to the group that you have at your disposal; adapting to the place where you're working; adapting to the local environment. This is crucial: adaptability.

After Le Havre, I became the youngest player in the first division in Reunion. I made my debut at 16. That's how I got spotted by Nantes.

The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating. It's all about selecting the person. And if you believe you selected the right person, then you give that person the freedom, the authority, the delegation to innovate and to lead with some very simple measure.

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.

I really think I tried to capture the essence of the comics: what I thought would be the essence of Elektra. And then, as any character that I play, I really tried to dig inside me and try to reach real emotions and transpose that in her world, in who she is.

I believe in angels, so it's simple.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Opportunities are often things you haven't noticed the first time around.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

Musicals are made of several climaxes that keep growing and growing; when you think it's over, it still continues growing up in plateaus.

To me, leadership is about encouraging people. It's about stimulating them. It's about enabling them to achieve what they can achieve - and to do that with a purpose.

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photography in general.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.

Never cut what you can untie.

The rigor and discipline we use in running our business is key to consistently executing our growth strategy. And we systematically applied the same discipline to our investments, including acquisitions.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.