Top 1200 Great French Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
The French-Cajun culture is similar to mine - they're Catholic, they play accordions, and they eat hot chiles.
We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.
Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them
I speak Dutch, German, French, and English and have acted in all of those languages, but I love the American experience.
What you notice in French nurseries is just how calm they are. All of their classes are structured and led by teachers. It's a requirement.
Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend.
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
Nothing great was ever achieved without great work and great effort. It's really that simple.
The scary thing is I took 12 years of French, and I can barely say, 'My name is... ' And that's not because of the concussions.
I don't feel like I have to be nationalistic French because I'm afraid of losing whatever. No, no, no, no. And also I don't think we are the best.
The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.
England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.
My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home.
I dont think theres a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.
If you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France for Jews
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.
Last night I ordered a whole meal in French. Even the waiter was amazed - it was a Chinese restaurant!
Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!
I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.
We must prevent a criminal understanding between the Fascist aggressors and the British and French imperialist clique.
I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to.
I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.
There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.
There are certain relationships I think I'm great at: I'm the world's greatest daughter. I'm a great relative. I believe I'm a great friend.
On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.
I was a bit disappointed to discover that the French Riviera seems to have a large motorway running along the edge of it.
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.
My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection.
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.
When I started as a young chef, I was Italian, and I was a woman, and everyone else in New York was French and a man.
I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all.
The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'
I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.
I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?
I still rate my first victory in the French Open at Roland Garros as my best win ever.
If there is one thing French Muslims want, it is to be rid of the daily pressures imposed on them by Islamic fundamentalists.
I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.
I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.
I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.
Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.
First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef.
You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.
America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.
No matter what your background or where you are from, the one thing we can all respect is when great athletes and great passion leads to great achievements.
This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.
Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.
I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of a perfect dinner.
Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.
I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I've been adopted here. They treat me as one of their own.
Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been?
I've been a tough sailor, a foppish-type landscape gardener, a French villain, a circus strongman.
Reactions [on my 1979 Massey lectures] were from Anglophones. I'm one. But I'm terrible at French. In fact, there was practically no reaction.
In view of the mess left behind by the French and ourselves, we cannot simply leave Libya alone.
I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.
I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.
For the hair, a few French hairpins and a tortoiseshell clip will dress up any bun!
I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.
Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.
