Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon and the Australian, U.S. and French Opens are to tennis.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.

Thomas Keller

Restaurants like the French Laundry can be very intimidating for a lot of people.

I think there was some burgers, and I know there was some french fries. I had been in school for two weeks. That's why my parents were so pleased, getting off to such a glorious start. Getting thrown in the clink in the first month.

Li Na

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon.

Friedrich Engels

Just as Marx used to say about the French "Marxists" of the late seventies: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist

O. J. Simpson

It is inconceivable that French workers at Peugeot would be laid off on this magnitude.

Edmund White

I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

I tell people, yeah, you'll learn French if you want to stop bleeding.

David Ginola

It has simply been a time of reflection.

David Trezeguet

It is exceptional, I grew up watching Papin, an idol of the French public, ... It means a lot to have the same number of goals as players like him and Fontaine. It shows I have been consistent.

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

Stephen Colbert

My father always wanted to be 'Col-bear.' He lived in the same town as his father, and his father didn't like the idea of the name with the French pronunciation. So my father said to us, 'Do what you want. You're not going to offend anybody.' And he was dead long before I made my decision.

Sophie Marceau

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

Sophie Marceau

You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far.

Sophie Marceau

Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes.

This was opportunity for students to demonstrate their knowledge in the Spanish, French and German languages.

Quincy Jones

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

David Blunkett

If I pleaded guilty to a mistake while I was home secretary, it wasn't that I didn't get tough - my God, I put immigration and security officials on French soil for the first time.

Lleyton Hewitt

I feel good and hopefully can raise my game for the French Open next week.

I can tell you in Washington we have no better partner right now on most of these issues that occupy the Security Council... than the French government.

French society was a lot more violent in the 1960s and 70s,

French retailing has shown signs of strength. Germany on the other hand does not look so good.

Guillaume Apollinaire

French painting today is the only school which counts; only it plunders the universe for the logic of the great traditions, only it is full of life.

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Megan Hilty

I'm a sucker for French fries - I love that they're salty!

Joanne Harris

I have an English identity and a French identity. When I'm in France, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me cooks, whereas the English part of me writes.

If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

I don't think I was at the level I was at the French Open or the other times I played her, but Mary played well,

Leslie Caron

I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.

Steven Wright

I was at this restaurant. The sign said "Breakfast Anytime." So I ordered French Toast in the Renaissance.

I was shocked when Harold told me about it. An incumbent shouldn't be able to make promises like that to try and win votes... To say he would make sure of R3m in grants and a French Test is ludicrous.

D. H. Lawrence

I would have loved it - without the French