Top 1200 Great French Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest.

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

The great saints were always great innovators... They had to be very strong people... principled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.

A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a 10 out of 10. It's the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.

I could say, 'I want to play a French-African humpback,' but I probably won't get that role.

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.

I'm a French director, but what's important for me is that my stories have a universal message, whatever language they're filmed in.

The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.

I'm really into fashion, and there's this fascination the world over around this idea of the French woman.

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.

I've learned from my French husband and the way they eat, it's all about moderation. And that's really sustainable.

I prefer dark chocolate. I like French over Belgian... Valrhona is the best.

If I am right the Germans will say I was a German, and the French will say I was a Jew; If I am wrong the Germans will say I was a Jew and the French will say I was a German.

My look is a cocktail. I'm not as nicely turned out as the french, but I don't care like the English.

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

Cantona's expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word.

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

I think it is never easy to play a quarterfinal against a French guy, you know.

Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

To have a great player like Neymar at PSG would be a great honour. He's a phenomenal player, and to have great player is a great thing for the team.

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

I was definitely ahead of my friends. I was French-kissing girls way before anybody else was.

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.

Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.

I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

French girls, especially those from Montreal, are known to be the most beautiful women in the world.

I've always loved French music. My parents adored it; my father played it on the piano.

At the end of the day, all people want to do is hear a great singer sing a great song. They don't care about what vocal changes it went through. You can't screw up a great song and a great singer.

To stay in one time zone and play in a great conference - a great all-around conference, but, specifically, a great basketball conference - is a great thing.

On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect.

Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love.

Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.

When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.

I think the French and the Japanese are both obsessed by seasons, small producers, freshness.

I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.

Did anybody tell you that you're a few french fries short of a Happy Meal?

When I first began writing music I was really inspired by the French electro scene.

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.

In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'

I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.