French Quotes

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.

You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.

That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but nobody really expected me to do well on clay - it was my worst surface. I had had some success on the clay but I was a set and a break up in the semi-final against Jausovec and maybe the enormity of the occasion got to me.

The French cook; we open tins.

I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.

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

I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.

I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

The French revolution taught us the rights of man.

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore.

There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music.

I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.

I love the French horn.

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit.

Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.

I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping.

We were only there for five days and during that time Tom was a bit annoyed that the French were more interested in me and my schoolgirl outfit than him and his long scarf.

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

I was hit many times in various parts of the body, including my right leg, and thank God I am recovering. I was also severely wounded in my left leg. Iraqi and French doctors will conduct an operation shortly and, God willing, I will recover.