Top 1200 Great French Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us.

I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.'

I was born in Saint Boniface, which is a small city right next to Winnipeg, nominally French speaking.

I am as great as the thoughts I conceive. I am as great as the Universe I perceive. I am as great as the love of my heart. I am as great as the God in my Soul.

Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.

I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall.

It is natural to admire and revere really great men. They hallow the nation to which they belong, and lift up not only all who live in their time, but those who live after them. Their great example becomes the common heritage of their race; and their great deeds and great thoughts are the most glorious legacies of mankind.

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

French women eat and serve what's in season, for maximum flavor and value, and know availability does not equal quality.

As a 'parisien d'adoption,' I am only semicognizant of where I may fit at any given time into the French social fabric.

The Internet is just it's great in a lot of ways and it has its disadvantages. But one of the great advantages is the ubiquity - virtually anyone can be discovered and things catch like fire when they're great.

How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.

The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation .

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

I notice that freedom of expression of an E.U. member of Parliament who denounces the actions of ISIS allows the French government to take her to court.

My great-great-great-grandfather or something, I think his father came before him; but, in the 1840s, he was a circuit-riding Baptist preacher.

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.

The murders in Paris are sickening, we stand with the French people in the fight against terror and defending the freedom of the press.

I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere.

I want to do exciting work. For the same reason, I was fine working in Marathi, Hindi or French films for that matter.

I see myself as universal, not as a German, American, French or whatever, because we all live on this planet. We're all living on the earth.

The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!

Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

I've got a great family, great career, great friends, and a lot of passions, which make my life interesting and fulfilling every day.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

When my daughter was younger we showed her all the great musicals. And the great dramas and great comedies, and the one that she took to the most was Some Like It Hot.

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

In the 1930s, there were so many different conflicts going on between the British, the French, the Russians, the Germans, the Spaniards, the Romanians and so on.

Have a great, great marriage. Have a great time together. You know something? You'll disagree sometimes, and you'll find out how stupid it is, and then you'll be OK. You will.

Everyone's life would be improved if they do could one great magic trick. And tell one great joke, play one tune on the piano, and do one great origami fold.

Jacques Audiard has always been an outlier in a French film industry that is starkly bifurcated between high and low.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize 'The Virgin Suicides' soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.

My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.

Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.

At West Ham there were a couple of French players and they helped me get used to the team and the club.

There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

The only exception to the demise/struggles of the European centre-left is Macron, in French presidential and parliamentary elections 2017.

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

I'd rather go with someone who wasn't a great speaker, but was a great chef, rather than someone who was a great performer, but maybe not a great cook.

Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity and precision. That is the hallmark of those who seek higher knowledge and truth.

If the elites listened, they would understand why French young people like me are joining our ranks.

Certain foods no longer agree with me. If I eat French fries, I might feel sick to my stomach.

I never watched British television. I bought myself a satellite for French, Spanish and Portuguese TV, instead.

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

There could be great thrillers or great dramas or great comedies made in that world but everyone's afraid of it. So you have to do them as these crazy little independent movies.

We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.