Quotes of: French-revolution Keyword

Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.

David Lynch

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.

Helena Bonham Carter

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.

Karl Lagerfeld

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.

Michel Hazanavicius

Patricia Franchini: When the French say a second, they mean five minutes.

Breathless

The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

Alain Ducasse

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

Theodore Zeldin

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

Victoria de los Angeles

I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.

Wang Leehom

It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.

Wilfrid Laurier

Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.

Xavier Niel

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

Robert Crumb

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

The Clocks

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

Dharma Punx: A Memoir

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

The Ethics of Ambiguity

It was muskets that won the Revolution. And don't forget it was axes, and plows that made this country.- Father Wilder

Farmer Boy

When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.

Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

I am becoming in coming undone. I unbind. I rise like the morning: revolution.

Binary Star

Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.

Birds Without Wings