Top 1200 French Quarter Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.

The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

A philosophical thought has probably not attained all its sharpness and all its illumination until it is expressed in French.

They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.

With an iron-clad fist, I wake up and French-kiss the morning.

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

If a French woman wears jeans, it's never with flats - always heels.

We accelerated our capital spending in the fourth quarter, particularly in international and next-generation network deployment, which should not only sustain future revenue growth but also drive significant cost reductions across all communications services.

Historically speaking, the French economy was largely driven by the demand side.

'Deracine' is French for uprooting, or someone who's been displaced from their natural environment.

Show me a person who doesn't like french fries and we'll swap lies.

And the '99 finals at the French - if I had won that one easily, no one would have talked about it.

Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the whole span — pedestrian-only — was lined by monumental statues of saints.

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.

French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity.

Motivated teams are the key to success at every startup, yet I still know entrepreneurs who gave an inspirational speech to kick off the quarter but haven't been heard from since, or don't realize that their actions are often more demotivating than inspirational.

I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France.

Let's not forget, there are three languages in Canada - English, French, and there's the language of jobs.

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French.

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon .

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.

For nearly three decades there has been, by and large, peace and tranquility on the India-China border. Not a single bullet has been fired for over a quarter-century. Both countries are showing great maturity and a commitment to economic cooperation.

The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

The French were always masters at mid-range. And I like the attitude.

In French we have this word déclic. It's when you have, suddenly, a light shining and you say, "This is what I want to do."

The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.

I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.

The most rewarding part about being a dad is just looking at children who didn't exist at some point. The first time you saw them, they were the size of a quarter, in a sonogram, and now they can pour orange juice and yell at each other.

I understand more when I travel why people believe that the French are arrogant.

The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.

United should have won more than three European Cups. When you look back at some of those semi-final and quarter-final defeats, we could and should have gone on to win the competition.

I was chosen over British and French choreographers to work on 'Bombay Dreams.'

It's certainly sobering to think that British consumers waste roughly a quarter of the food we buy. Or to put it another way, we funnel £12 billion a year from the supermarket through to our rubbish tips, costing each household an average of £480.

In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.

'Captives' was a deliberate bridging exercise, an attempt to use detailed knowledge of what Britain was like on the inside, to reach a deeper, more variegated understanding of how its peoples experienced external adventures and aggression over a quarter of a millennium in four continents.

I did French, history, biology, chemistry, and general studies at A level.

My idea of a perfect breakfast would be French toast with sausages and tea.

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

People and companies make mistakes. I guarantee we'll make a mistake next quarter. So what? Businesses make mistakes. Hopefully smaller, and fewer.

One thing we don't have in Italy is the culture of Chinese, Indian, French and Thai food.

Americans of all ages embraced TV unhesitatingly. They felt no loyalty to network radio, the medium that had entertained and informed them for a quarter-century. When something came along that they deemed superior, they switched off their radios without a second thought.

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.

I began reading in French. I didn't read in English until high school.

I was raised like a little soft French kid, if you want to know.

I don't want to worry about someone calling me and going, 'You better find a way to get another Taylor Swift record out this quarter.' When there's that kind of financial pressure dictating your path, it's hard to take creative risks.

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon.

I've dreamed of having my French bulldog become a bestselling children's heroine.

I have suffered, like other writers, from indolence, irresolution, distaste to my work, absence of 'inspiration,' and all that: but I have also found that sitting down, however reluctantly, with the pen in my hand, I have never worked for one quarter of an hour without finding myself in full train.

Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one.

If I could eat French fries every day of my life, I would.