Top 1200 French Quarter Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

To be in complete control of the game in the fourth-quarter and just self-destruct, it's tough.

If we can send a guy to the moon we can certainly go a quarter of a mile and not get hurt.

I think I've been in a perpetual quarter-life crisis consistently throughout my twenties.

Nevertheless, one doesn't have time to think, oh, well, this is a quarter tone sharp, or flat.

I backed horse last week at ten to one. It came in at quarter past four.

I don't believe in management by fear. I also won't sacrifice the future of a company for a quarter.

Hedge funds are not noted for their long-term thinking - for them, a quarter is an eternity.

I think I get really into comfort music: '60s stuff, '50s stuff like Frankie Avalon. I love it - such simple songs, but so well written. That, and old French pop. I love that, because I don't speak French. It's all just pop music! But I love it because it just makes me focus on the melodies.

You are taught about puberty and the menopause and how tough they can be, but a quarter-life crisis, you're not prepared for.

I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time.

If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If I prefer to shoot in my own language, it is to play with my language, to play in my Paris, and I have complete freedom in France. It's so amazing. If American directors could imagine how free I am, they would have asked for political asylum immediately.

We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English and German Protestants; Northern Irish, Welsh and Canadians; Irish and German Catholics; Scots; Mohammedan Indians; Algerians; Portugese; Belgians; French. We put the Belgians and French there for spite; they could not have been dirtier than the Algerians and the Portugese.

In the bar and restaurant industry, you're always one idea away from your next quarter-million.

Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

I thought eating Double Quarter Pounders with Big Mac sauce wasn't that bad, but I guess it was.

It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

My goal is to be competing to win tournaments that I'm playing instead of just content with making a quarter.

It's only normal, I am a player, who doesn't want to play in a European Championship quarter-final?

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.

Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.

Quarter-finals is good at a Grand Slam, but I think we want to go farther.

I was aware that a quarter of the children in the country are born in poverty, and that the condition of public schools in California was disastrous.

Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten rules. Just as traditional French cooking does not use seaweed or raw fish, so neoclassical models do not make assumptions derived from psychology, anthropology, or sociology. I disagree with any rules that limit the nature of the ingredients in economic models.

An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates.

Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity.

It is reasonable not to make any budget adjustments in the first quarter of 2015

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.

Every quarter, we give an award for a breakthrough idea even if it doesn't make it to market.

Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea?

Do you have a quarter? My mom told me to call her when I meet the women of my dreams.

Getting on fast-breaks, you don't do that when you let a team shoot 20 free throws in one quarter.

I'll just say, you know, over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot.

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

Matches don't come any bigger than FA Cup quarter-finals

I want to be commercial, so imagine Disney people mixed with underground techno people... mixed with sass. An example of an underground techno person would be that French artist Yelle. She's all in French, so I can't understand a word she's saying, but her beats are really cool, and that's something that I want to do...but mix Disney in there, and that's what I want.

She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants are said to eat and that enlightened English people sometimes enjoy rather self-consciously - a crusty French loaf, cheese, and lettuce and tomatoes from the garden. Of course there should have been wine and a lovingly prepared dressing of oil and vinegar, but Dulcie drank orange squash and ate mayonnaise that came from a bottle.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

We are generally pleased that we were able to report a solid quarter in a tough advertising environment,.

More than a quarter of mortgage borrowers are underwater, and 11 percent of all homes are vacant.

Seine et Danube was launched in 2003 with the help of Romanian authorities who had finally realized the necessity of promoting literature and Romanian culture in general. Along with focusing on the literature of the countries the Danube traversed (with an emphasis on Romania), we printed work that interested us from the banks of the Seine: French and French-Romanian authors like Cioran and Fondane. We dedicated our last edition to surrealism and Esthetic Onirisme.

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

I don't like French food. I like everything but French food.

Where I live you're not supposed to shoot a firearm within a quarter mile of a dwelling.

I tell everybody that I'm a quatre-sexual: I will do anything with anybody for a quarter.

There was [really] little difference between someone acting throwing french fries in your face and someone throwing french fries in your face.

Never, ever wear three-quarter length trousers. Even in the summer.

I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life.

In 'War Party,' I play a quarter-breed Indian. It's a serious movie, but it's funny, too.

Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.

I rent space on a farm for 15 dollars a month, and I have the use of about a quarter of an acre.

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter?

Other sports culminate at different times of the year, but the NFL is in the fourth quarter - that's where the money is.

If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.

I'm a quarter Scottish but that's not enough to warrant wearing a kilt at any point in my life.

The reason my kids like McDonald's is that they always know what they're going to get. It's not gourmet food, but the french fries they order in Indianapolis are just like the french fries they order in Tampa. Wherever they get McDonald's fries, they know it will be the same. That's what McDonald's does.

I give no quarter, and I ask for none. Out there, I'm going to fight for my team and do the best I can.

I have always sworn to my lovers to love them eternally, but for me eternity is a quarter of an hour.