Quotes of: French-people Keyword

There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.

Joely Richardson

It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest.

John Lawson

Harvey Milk: How do you teach homosexuality? Is it like French?

Milk

Barbara Morton: Who's the interesting-looking Frenchman with the Darvilles? Guy Haines: His name's Antony... he's not French.

Strangers on a Train

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

Marjane Satrapi

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

Robert Winston

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

Anthony Bourdain

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.

Wim Wenders

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

Andrea Bocelli

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

Arthur Boyd

I think the French and the Japanese are both obsessed by seasons, small producers, freshness.

Alain Ducasse

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

Umberto Eco

By the middle twentieth century, few European nation-states had not at one time or another figured themselves as 'the outpost of Western Christian civilisation': France, imperial Germany, the Habsburg Reich, Poland with its self-image as przedmurze (...

Black Sea

Many people in this country who want to see us the minority, and who don’t want to see us taking too militant or too uncompromising a stand, are absolutely against the successful regrouping or organising of any faction in this country whose thought...

Malcolm X

If ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil for instance, Raphael or Michael Angelo, whom all the learned had admired, [we ought] not to follow our own fancies, but to study them until we know how...

An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, in Consequence of Some Late Discussions in Parliament, Relative to the Reflections on the French Revolution.

Sınıf" sözcüğü kafanızı fazla karıştırmıyorsa, Fransız Devrimi'ne yol açan fikirler ve olayları kavramak kolaylaşır. Örneğin, genelde bugün işçi sınıfının artık varolmadığı, çünkü kol gücüne dayalı işlerde çalı�...

Vive la Revolution: A Stand-up History of the French Revolution

For one of the first pressures that bear down on American girls is the pressure not only to be liked but to be everyone else. This initial feat of self-transformation often involves loosening one's grip on that quiet sense of inner self and hitching ...

What French Women Know About Love, Sex and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind

To the chefs who pioneered the nouvelle cuisine in France, the cuisine they were rebelling against looked timeless, primordial, old as the hills. But the cookbook record proves that the haute cuisine codified early in this century by Escoffier barely...

Why We Eat What We Eat: How Columbus Changed the Way the World Eats

Salvatore "Sal" Boca: Look, I'm telling you, I'll take the deal somewhere else. Joel Weinstock: So let him take sixty kilos of heroin somewhere else and find out how easy it is to put together half a million in cash. You won't find there's any hurry ...

The French Connection

King Arthur: Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us food and shelter for the night, he can join us in our quest for the Holy Grail. French Soldier: Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he wil...

Monty Python and the Holy Grail