Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeanne Calment

I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.

There is a big 'Trust me' in this deal, particularly with the French government retaining a stake. But the key issue is job cuts.

Eleanor Catton

The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate. Very often, there are phrases in Italian, German and French that are left untranslated.

Roland Barthes

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player.

We are saddened by the statements of the French prime minister and of President (Jacques) Chirac.

Yannick Noah

Cracked was a very short warrior, whereas Marley was a pacifist warrior.

Yannick Noah

Your child is happy. What else could you want?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

William John Wills

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.

Brigitte Boisselier

'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

David Ginola

The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth.

Noah Hathaway

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Jean de la Bruyere

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.

Andre Gide

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Paul Ricoeur

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

Bernard Hinault

I slept like a baby the night before, because I knew that I'd win the next day.

Bernard Hinault

Everyday there's something that reminds me why I love this sport.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

Ira Glass

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.

Where does virgin wool come from? The sheep that runs the fastest.

Curt Weldon

The French had an obvious financial interest in Iraq. That's been documented. They were involved financially in Iraq and in some cases, I think with weapons of mass destruction.

Carine Roitfeld

In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'

Pierre de Coubertin

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.