Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by French Authors - Page 5

In life, you always have a second chance.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

At some point we must stop being paranoid and believing that we are all at war.

The year 1999, seventh month, from Heaven will come a great king of terror: to bring back to life the great King of Angolmois. Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

When you talk about Puyol, you speak of a myth of football.

It was always about the story rather than the character.

I loved cars when I was younger, now not as much as I grew up a little bit. But I still enjoy driving.

I've started movies without screenplays both on 'Clash' and on 'Hulk,' and that is tremendously stressful because you have a tendency to overcompensate with effects. You haven't tested it in your head. You didn't run it over and over again and covered all of the plot holes and figure it out. It's a marathon that you sprint.

My grandfather and his wife came to America at the end of the 19th century from Hungary. Everyone started out on the Lower East Side. They became embourgeoise and would move to the Upper West Side. Then, if they'd make money, they'd move to Park Avenue. Their kids would become artists and move down to the Lower East Side and the Village.

You can't create a movie as you think about it. And what's in the scene is not what's being seen. A shot always means something other than what it is. All are vehicles. A landscape is just a vehicle. The viewer might think different things, and I'm not going to intervene.

It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it.

Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

My ambition with 'Redoubtable' was to make a film that would be aesthetically pleasing, charming, and touching.

Walking in the mountains helps me unwind, but it also reminds me in a painful way that the real beauty in life is nature and animals, and that the human race, in all its arrogance, is intent on destroying it.

Real Madrid is a club where you have to go when you are mature and at the top of your game.

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.

Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

My parents always told me that if you want something, you can do whatever you have to do to get it. As long as it's not against someone else.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

French people should be prioritised; clandestine immigrants get 100 per cent refund on healthcare while two-thirds of French people can't afford medical help. Charity begins at home.

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

I gain weight and lose it again in inevitable cycles.

Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.

High heels are pleasure with pain.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Professionally I've evolved with what's required, but the pictures I do for pleasure haven't changed, except for the cars in the background, the clothing. I haven't changed at all.

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

An athletic man, or whatever you want to call him, will only look good in a very classic suit, a pair of classic jeans, athletic clothes or simply naked. Forget fashion. This is not going to happen, unless you want to look like a Chippendales dancer in designer clothes.

Talent is not enough. You need to be in the right place at the right moment.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.

I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.

I'm a Napoli player and I'll give 100 percent to win something with this shirt.

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

Arsenal are a special club for many French supporters. I watched them a lot, especially during the 'Invincible' era when they had Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Sylvain Wiltord, and Robert Pires.

I have kids, so I can understand the image that footballers have. They are fans of some players; I see in their eyes. They admire and try to imitate their gestures, their words, their celebrations. They love Ronaldo and Messi. Since Euro 2016, though, they have no right to pronounce the name of Ronaldo!

It's great to come home always... coming home to good south Indian meals or Andhra food is always a pleasure.

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

Someone like Cristiano Ronaldo focuses on scoring to progress, so perhaps I need to think more about scoring.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

To avoid the trap of Europe fragmenting on the economy, security, and identity, we have to return to the original promises of the European project: peace, prosperity and freedom. We should have a real, adult, democratic debate about the Europe we want.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

It is the pride of my heart to have been one of the earliest adopted sons of America.

The transatlantic relationship is vital for both our countries: France will remain a reliable ally of the United States. Nevertheless, ally does not mean aligned.

A free, analytical and questioning press must be helped survive.

Things can move so fast that you don't have time to catch your breath or think about the next move.

In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a 'little black frock' is essential to a woman's wardrobe.

Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.

I want to play well. When I don't, I have to do better. I always try to look at myself first and how I can do things to get better and be out there.

Don't spend your time dreaming, live life now.

The main thing is to work hard. When you work hard, you'll be in the team. It's as simple as that. And that's what I'm going to do, put my head down, work hard, and see where it takes me.

It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.