Quotes of: France Keyword

The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.

Berenice Bejo

The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'

Xavier Niel

My friends asked me to be a reverend at their wedding in France a few years ago. I went on the Internet, and within 15 seconds, I was printing out a certificate which allowed me to officiate at their wedding.

Lucy Punch

Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but Germany, my friend, is playing a very different tune. Germany has many more birds in her sights than just France... S...

Ivanov

But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will be unflyable, stuck in the climb.

Code Name Verity

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.

The Dream of Scipio

I saw an infinity of forgotten details dancing across history's dizzying expanse.

A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France

Here the past was everywhere, an entire continent sown with memories.

A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France

How did we get to the point where we're paying for bottled water? I imagine it was some weird marketing meeting over in France.

Food: A Love Story

I totally bought you as a girl," says Marisol. "I'll double check with Frances later, but by the sounds of things, you seem to have no balls.

How to Build a House

I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

Fred Frith

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

Tift Merritt

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

Johnny Depp

Ce n'est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées."

Indiana

I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

My Life in France

...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

My Life in France

I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.

My Life in France

Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.

The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

Theodore Bikel

In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

Karen Maitland