Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by French Authors - Page 2

With hard work and effort, you can achieve anything.

After an injury, I think you have to be strong mentally.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

To me, there's no great chef without a great team.

It's a great honour to be recognised and appreciated by your fellow colleagues.

It is part of being a goalkeeper: there is nobody behind to save you.

I only have one obsession - not to be boring.

When I made 'Polly Maggoo,' it was more or less the end of this collaboration with 'Vogue' because I made a caricature of the editor-in-chief and the fashion people, so they didn't really adore me.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

For me, the good food starts with good product.

I have to admit that I have a massive weakness for Italian food, which is not very light but so good!

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.

To be adult is to be alone.

It's the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people.

I am a voyager - and the voyage cannot mean that I stay at home.

The inflated imitations of gold and silver, which after the rapture are thrown into the fire, all is exhausted and dissipated by the debt. All scrips and bonds are wiped out. At the fourth pillar dedicated to Saturn, split by earthquake and flood: vexing everyone, an urn of gold is found and then restored.

Cooking is creating emotion.

I don't look further than next year because in our world, anything can happen.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

We have received a heritage of craftsmanship, of aesthetics, of taste, of identity. Our brands have the beauty to preserve and perpetuate it.

I could never imagine ever in my life that I'd be on the side of The Louvre.

Singing is the rawest thing. Having been naked in films or naked in photo shoots, it's nothing compared to singing. It's absolute nakedness. You are stripped bare! It's very strange. Acting seems much easier, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here, you are taking everything off.

Sarri has really helped me. 'Listen to me and you will become a champion' he told me in his first year at Napoli.

I wanted to find a way to merge my taste as an art and creative director with my new little obsessions: babies and motherhood and all of that. So I began working on my website, Romy and the Bunnies, which is named after my daughter, Romy.

It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.

I'm young, I still have a lot to learn. We will say that I am a Ferrari under construction.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

I think that the ATP and the WTA are doing a good job because they're satisfying their fans, and I am one of their fans.

No, I'm not a student of Snake Eyes, but we trained in the same dojo.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Creativity is a huge part of my game as a player. It helps open doors which others don't see.

'Lullaby' is about boundaries.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

I don't care how people judge me.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

I'll always be a foreigner.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

I think what is interesting in life is all the cracks and all the flaws and all the moments that are not perfect.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

Patience is the art of hoping.

We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.

It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.

Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.