Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

Ashley Tisdale

Sunday's my day off, where I eat whatever I want. I don't not let myself have something. I do love French fries and bread.

David Lynch

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

Helen Vendler

I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us.

Marcel Carne

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

The joy of the mind is the measure of its strength.

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.

Brigitte Bardot

It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Ernest Renan

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

Charles Perrault

Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.

French Montana

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

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.

Voltaire

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

Leslie Caron

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

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

We've been in a complicated marriage with the French for over 50 years now, and we'll be married to them forever,

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.

D. H. Lawrence

I would have loved it - without the French

Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.

Carine Roitfeld

My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'

Jacques Chirac

Many French have problems and difficulties, ... But violence never solves anything.

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.

Thomas Keller

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

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

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,

We need a reason for speaking, we need none for keeping silent.