Top 1200 French Quarter Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.

It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.

I never want to co-write. People never just write a quarter of a book, do they? I don't think you can get your story across.

I think we shot the ball very well tonight, we just didn't get stops when we needed to. They hit 11 3-pointers in the third quarter. Sometimes when one person gets hot, everybody's hot.

Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.

I learnt French in school and can already speak English.

We spent zero dollars on advertising. We just had a YouTube video and that was it. We did a quarter million dollars in revenue, just in three weeks.

I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century.

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.

I love French and English bulldogs. They're hilarious and adorable.

Sometimes we used to eat once a day... chicken backs. You could buy four chicken backs for a quarter.

I never thought I could win the French Open.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.

They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

It's normal that people expect more from the French team.

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.

I'm not good with time. Like, if I ask you the time and you say A quarter to 2, I wouldn't know. Why can't you just say 2:30?

One of the reasons I decided to apply for American citizenship after something like a quarter of century of living here on a British, European Union passport and a green card, was my identification with the United States in the post-September 11th period.

The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice.

Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.

You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary.

I've been given my money. Nobody has ever beaten me out of one quarter. And that's all I've ever been concerned about.

I think in French, but I get angry in Spanish.

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

Born and raised in St. Paul. I was a St. Paul Johnson Governor for the first quarter of my freshman year. Then I moved to Phoenix.

In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.

Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.

I don't understand people who believe that if you ignore something, it'll go away. That's completely wrong - if it's ignored it gathers strength. Europe ignored Hitler for twenty years. As a result he slaughtered a quarter of the world!

There's something that's so basically corrupt about any system in which a good and fair profit is not enough. There has to be more, every year, every quarter, because your stock price has to rise.

I can never forgive God for having invented the French

I'm not saying I'm even half as talented or a quarter as talented as any of the people I'm inspired by, but if I hear a beat Busta Rhymes would absolutely kill, I'll use my voice to do a flow similar to his.

I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards the Tartar: Then the half, and then the whole, Ever dancing round the pole.

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

All my life, I have juggled two cultures: Senegalese and French.

I'm fine being addicted to chocolate and French fries.

I'm going to gather all the French people who want change.

The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

My dad is French and he's my number one style icon.

In Spain, I'd taken Villarreal to league runners-up and the quarter-final and then semi-final of the Champions League.

My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.

I am of Irish, Italian, and French Canadian descent.

French people are strange about America, I think.

The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede. [The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]

You never see a French person eating alone.

I can do whatever I want, but I'm a French girl. It goes with everything.

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

Forgive me for speaking frankly, but after the past quarter-hour's conversation, I am unconvinced that any of you possess the sense or sensitivity to impart the news in any respectful fashion" - Amelia

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

Wayne Lukas was the bar. Wayne impacted Quarter Horse racing and thoroughbred racing like no other.

There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.

Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.

Nothing could be more French than pastry.