Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

Mario Lemieux

A month before the season I stop putting ketchup on my french fries.

Jean Alesi

It's my job, but I think it is too much.

Jean Alesi

I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist.

Jean Alesi

I will be better in Monte Carlo than I was in Phoenix. If I can't win maybe I will lead 50 laps.

Jean Alesi

I must use Ferrari to the maximum. My priority is to get results. Then we will see what happens.

Jean Alesi

It wasn't all frustration. I've had a lot of good times with Ferrari as well.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

Charles V

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.

Carine Roitfeld

When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.

Alphonse Karr

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I was putting all those pressures on myself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I couldn't do anything else, I enjoy it so much. But I find it tough.

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.

Abu Bakar Bashir

What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

Daniel Keys Moran

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Daniel Keys Moran

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Daniel Keys Moran

The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.

George Sand

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Alan Furst

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.

Alain Prost

I remember in the first part of the race I was sixth and I could have gone quicker, but I had to go slow. It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done.

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.

We need a reason to speak but none to keep silent.

Jane Birkin

I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I've been adopted here. They treat me as one of their own.

Pierre Cardin

The only one who is alive today and still being talked about is Pierre Cardin.

Helena Bonham Carter

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.

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.

Roland Barthes

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

Victor Hugo

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.