Top 1200 Great French Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I think the French teams sometimes doubt themselves. They play some beautiful games but, when it comes down to it, do not go through.

I think French women are incredibly comfortable in their skin, whereas in the States people are striving more for one beauty ideal.

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

At Wimbledon if it is slightly wet you don't even play the match. At the French Open you need to just get on with it and somehow adjust.

The widespread use of pesticides in the French countryside, and its worrying effects on nature and the environment, had troubled me for years.

I was a typical French student of the 1990s - I imagined that, after a short excursion, I would work the rest of my life at home.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

We have the great fans in Detroit. We've got a great ballpark, great stadium.

I like French films, Chabrol in particular. With him, you often get a skewed morality in which you sympathise with the person you shouldn't.

I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.

I am driven by ingredients. My Italian heritage and French training inevitably poke through as well, guiding my techniques.

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

Wales was great. The people were great, and I had a great time there.

I learned to say 'hello' in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Indonesian, and Italian - languages of the countries I've visited.

Like the French, Koreans aim for a subtle and effortless look - while actually paying a lot of attention to the details.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

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.

Biarritz is one of the most popular holiday destinations in France and it tops the list for coastal resorts along the French Atlantic.

As Dutch, British and French explorers literally put this Great Southern Land on the map it would be ridiculous to say that modern day Australia is anything other than a grand - and successful - outpost of Euro-colonialism and, more specifically Anglo-Celt British colonialism. It's a fact of life like the Euro-colonization of the Americas etc. If it was an outpost of, let's say, Iranian or Zimbabwean colonialism would so many people still be so desperately trying to get into Australia by any means necessary, legal or otherwise? It's doubtful. Thank the Gods for Euro-colonialism!

I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster.

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.

I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant as ruffling taffeta.

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

Play with Spain? I think that's already closed, but even so, I opt for France because I'm French. I don't have dual citizenship, and I'm not going to ask for it.

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.

I'm yet to attack French cooking, you know, where it's intense, following recipes and stuff. I'm more of a 'make it up' kind of thing.

If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.

If you are in Holland, be careful not to say tomorrow that you don't like French, German or Swedish food or people, you could be called a racist.

Yohan Cabaye. He's a French player, and he dresses really well every day. There's no effort. That's how I like to dress.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

Dybala only lacks the belief that he is a great footballer. After his great experience at Palermo he had a great start with Juve and he did beautiful things.

There is no such thing as a German, French, or Anglo-American Expressionism! There are only young people trying to find their bearings in the world.

The stubby French painter Toulouse-Lautrec supposedly invented chocolate mousse - I find that rather hard to believe, but there you have it.

I obviously would love to play with a great, great, great quarterback.

I have to say I've been pretty lucky in that my French fry indulgences don't really affect my skin. I keep a stable routine.

If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether it's in film, or whatever it is, man - as long as it's good, and on the level, I'm open to it.

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.

Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.

I saw Claude Makelele play in the French national team but before when he played at a club I didn't watch him a lot.

The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.

I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day.

I have a suspicion, because if you look at the whole, all the [Star Wars ] movies, the backlog of every one of these movies, there's a lot of great stuff, but one might not be not as good with the writing in this or the acting in that or the directing in that, this has great actors, great directors, great script, and I really feel like we're gonna make the best one [movie with Young Han Solo].

The French people recognizes the Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. The first day of every month is to be dedicated to the eternal.

Even on the red carpet, French celebrities keep it minimal. Think of Charlotte Gainsbourg - the look can be quite undone.

... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.

I love my wife. We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you know? People say she saved my life, but at the same time, I saved her life, as well, I think. She's a great mother, she's a great wife, she's a great worker, she's a great manager. She's just great.

Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!

It so happened that I was on a German sailing vessel on the way to Australia when the ship was captured, and on the high seas I was made prisoner by the French.

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.