Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.

David Sedaris

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

Dave Barry

England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

Dave Barry

English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

Dave Barry

The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar..

Dave Barry

The Romans spent the next 200 years using their great engineering skill to construct ruins all over Europe.

Dave Barry

One key lesson of history is that virtually anything, including afternoon or evening thundershowers, causes Germany to invade Belgium.

Dave Barry

Nevada has a very dynamic economy, with gambling being the number-one industry, followed closely by blood donorship.

Dave Barry

Europeans, like some Americans, drive on the right side of the road, except in England, where they drive on both sides of the road; Italy, where they drive on the sidewalk; and France, where if necessary they will follow you right into the hotel lobby.

Charles Dickens

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

Al Sharpton

President Obama telling Americans not to panic in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

Al Jardine

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.

David Sedaris

In Paris you're always surrounded by French people.

David Sedaris

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

Camille Claudel

Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

Edith Sitwell

White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.

Ed Bradley

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

Beau Garrett

I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.

Alan Parsons

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.

William Shakespeare

An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.

Kate Forsyth

One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.

Brigitte Bardot

I am against the Islamisation of France.

Brigitte Bardot

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

Louis Leterrier

Even though I studied in New York and I know the American system, I come from France where I learned that with movies in France where the director is king. There's no such thing as a studio edit. It's the director's cut, period.

Olivier Martinez

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it.

Olivier Megaton

When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.

Adolf Hitler

I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945)