Quotes of: French-people Keyword

The whole process of music for me is something absolutely honest and really naked and bare, so I never forced myself to write in French.

Lou Doillon

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French.

Anna Held

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Van Wyck Brooks

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French.

Wilfrid Laurier

For me, 30 days, it's already pretty good for ribeye or sirloin on the bone. I like my meat grass-fed and juicy. The French never age their meat more than two or three weeks.

Daniel Boulud

If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

Jack Whitehall

I don't feel like I have to be nationalistic French because I'm afraid of losing whatever. No, no, no, no. And also I don't think we are the best.

Jean Reno

Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

Maurice Druon

The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.

P. J. O'Rourke

American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media.

Rosecrans Baldwin

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

Stendhal

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

Thomas Keller

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

Thomas Piketty

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

Karl Lagerfeld

China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods.

Li Keqiang

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

Lytton Strachey

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

Marcel Carne

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

Mahatma Gandhi

I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.

Sean Connery

The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.

Alan Jay Lerner