Famous Quotes & Sayings

Society is getting more and more dangerous, more and more violent, and the French are trying to find answers, to find better solutions.

The French were very, very responsive. Absolutely, we might invite the president of France.

Leslie Caron

The French? Upper class. Now, this is not all of France, it's just the French upper class, and it's very true. That's the way that they are, yes.

The French state with its Clemenceau has 55 other ships that are waiting to be dismantled. The UK has 40. And we know that in the U.S. there are 600 ships waiting to be dismantled. All of them are government ships, full of asbestos, PCPs and all this other stuff.

The French riots are also not helping the euro,

Saeb Erekat

The French report did not indicate any of these things,

Condoleezza Rice

The French plan, which would somehow try to transfer sovereignty to an unelected group of people, just isn't workable,

Jacques Chirac

The French people stand with all their hearts at the side of the American people,

The French love stark plays about power and sexuality,

The French have taste in all they do - which we are quite without; For Nature, that to them gave gout, To us gave only gout

Lawrence Dallaglio

The French back three have shown up well and it's a reflection of the way the team's going,

Michael Servetus

The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite.

Alain Prost

You can't think you are going to win all the races by being quicker, because it's not possible. So you need to find another way.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

They were there looking things over, trying to find out what happened to their property. That's probably the reason he was walking around the French Quarter.

Tommy Robredo

I am not here to prepare for the French Open. I am here to try to win the tournament,

Charles Perrault

However, Cinderella, in spite of her mean apparel, was a hundred times more handsome than her sisters, though they were always richly dressed.

If he ran for president in French Polynesia, he'd probably get elected.

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

Carine Roitfeld

I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

Alaina Huffman

I did a little film called 'Nina,' a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone. Zoe Saldana plays Nina.

Ethan Zuckerman

I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.

I don't think there's a problem at all with steroids in the NHL. I can say that.

Lily Cole

It was a scandal when I did French 'Playboy' in 2008, though I was never actually nude in it. I think it's really funny that I'll have a cover of 'Playboy' to show my grandkids.

Jessica Biel

I do like potato chips, French fries and Barney's burgers in L.A. with seasoned curly fries.

Adam Leipzig

Initially, I was not convinced. I knew the film needed to be translated but I think the French version is valid and I thought there was a way to keep the voices.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

Lance Armstrong

The interrogations, the French and everything going on hasn't set too well with him,

Marcel Proust

We love only what we do not wholly possess.

John Larroquette

I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do.

Juliette Binoche

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.

Linda Wells

Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said: Americans are too clean . . . I took no offense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'