Quotes of: French-revolution Keyword

There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.

Emmanuelle Beart

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

Edward Sapir

Energy doesn't communicate in English, French, Chinese or Swahili, but it does speak clearly

Elaine Seiler

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

She’s a serial kisser. I think her parents are French.

C.C. Hunter

In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'

Carine Roitfeld

When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.

Carine Roitfeld

The Russians are very much more up and down than the French.

Carine Roitfeld

When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.

Ira Glass

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

E. V. Lucas

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

Bernard Pivot

Accents are very sexy. American girls who speak French are very attractive to a Frenchman. Anything exotic or different is attractive.

Gilles Marini

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