Quotes of: French-people Keyword

Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.

Daniel Boulud

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Douglas Coupland

I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!

Jean Dujardin

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate.

Joseph Epstein

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.

Lalla Ward

Major John Reisman: You know what to do, free the French and shoot the Germans!

The Dirty Dozen

[Coded radio message to the French Resistance] Radio announcer: There is fire at the travel agency.

The Longest Day

[a coded message to the Resistance, spoken in French] Radio Announcer: John has a long mustache.

The Longest Day

Marilyn: I'd like to French pastry myself to death, right now.

Manhattan Murder Mystery

It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are tight with money - they just don't trust anyone.

Janine di Giovanni

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

Salman Rushdie

You know, I would like to ask to the other parts of Canada to respect the minority of the French Canadians.

Pauline Marois

Eastern Muslim countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are relative success stories, as they are not afflicted by the Arab heritage of retreat and humiliation at the hands of the French, Spanish, British, Turks, and Persians.

Conrad Black

The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love what was the instrument of their glory - their language.

Maurice Druon

I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.

Rafael Nadal

Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.

Ewan McGregor

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.

Jonny Greenwood

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

Mandy Moore

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

Louis Jourdan

In every French village there is now a lighted torch, the schoolmaster; and a mouth trying to blow it out, the priest.

Victor Hugo

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.

William John Wills