Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by French Authors - Page 6

A pair of Berluti shoes has this flair, these nuances in colour and patina, so I thought: 'What if we took this je ne sais quoi and turn it into a menswear brand?'

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

The scars in my face are the source of my strength.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

I love Elektra. I really have a special place in my heart for her. It was very enjoyable for me to discover her and to adapt her for this project and bring myself to this character. So I have a special spot for her.

If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women.

If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.

Everybody wants to support his own region and economy and farming. If we can preserve the land and if we can preserve the ocean, we all know, deep inside that we're doing the right thing.

Some sports give a lot of emotions because you know the people well, not personally but they express their passion and their emotion on the field so you have an attraction. In tennis, because of this code of conduct that is extremely strict, players do not show their personality.

The wolf is my favorite animal.

No one is attacking Islam, as such. We accept that there is a large French-born Islamic population in France who have a right to be here. The FN is not a racist or Islamophobic party.

When you play cards and find yourself in a tricky situation, you'll use some little strategies - and that is what I have done from time to time. That is why my national teammates have called me a cheat. They are not completely right, as I am not the only person to have done it. But they are not wrong either.

It's a fabulous thing to give life to fabric, to make something move well, the harmony of colour.

Everyone has strengths and weaknesses, you just have to know how to match up against a player.

I think French women are incredibly comfortable in their skin, whereas in the States people are striving more for one beauty ideal.

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it.

In the springtime, we have softshell crab from Maryland, which I'd never had until I came to America. In the summer and early fall, we have striped bass, 'stripeys,' which come all the way up the Hudson River but mostly gather in the sound at the tip of Long Island, off Montauk.

I think that in any language when you have a real relationship, and there is love and respect between people, infidelity is always something difficult to accept - whether you are Chinese, British, French. I think that is a universal concept... or problem.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.

I don't like going where I've already been. Life is a myriad of territories to discover. I don't want to waste time with what I already know.

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

Just because I am a chef doesn't mean I don't rely on fast recipes. Indeed, we all have moments when, pressed for time, we'll use a can of tuna and a tomato for a first course. It's a question of choosing the right recipes for the rest of the menu.

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

We are not racists or extremists in the Front National. We are people who love our country.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

It's always good to score, and if we want to do something as a team, you need your important players to be at their best.

You cannot compare the way someone plays for a club and for a national team. At a club, you spend every day with the same players. In a national team, you are with your team-mates for only a few days.

I wish that there were more games having the courage to talk about more subversive topics. Talking about politics, sexuality, human relationships.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

When you do a first movie, you're contractually supposed to do the second one and then you don't do it, you become an executive producer. That's why there are a ton of directors who have executive producer credits on other movies.

Individualism is a formidable lie.

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

I bow down in memory of the victims, and I come to tell my Armenian friends that we will never forget the tragedies that your people has endured.

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

Actually, I'd really love to do something in Bali, up in the mountains. A little restaurant with that scenery would be beautiful.

I've been pretty lucky to work with directors who were quite influenced by European cinema.

It's true that French are not very sophisticated in the sense that they don't dress up for dinners. They are not like Americans, where they are always perfect - the girls are not very sporty; they don't take care of themselves as much as Americans, who always have very white teeth and are so fit.

There's something I will say: In the U.S., people are very patriotic. Their patriotism is obvious. In France, for many years, you had to fight to be patriotic. People are pushing us from loving our own country.

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.

I love nature like nothing else. Before I moved to Switzerland, my home was a flat in London with a garden. In those snatched moments away from dance, I did typical weekend things like pruning, planting, and weeding. I planted fruit trees and even had a vegetable garden, but I wasn't around enough, so it was a disaster.

The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.

I was making a film on Muhammad Ali in 1964, and I went to Miami to film everything around the fight for the world championship with Sonny Liston. I had the good luck of flying down to Miami, and there was one empty seat, and the guy sitting next to this empty seat was Malcolm X.

Music fathoms the sky.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.

Increasingly, the work we do is enabled more and more by new IT, including automation, robotics, and intelligent platforms.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

The number of French players Arsenal have brought through is very impressive, and many of the players who arrived, especially the young ones, were unknown when they arrived to the general public.

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.