Quotes of: French-revolution Keyword

In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture, Italian literature and art. Musically he studied the scores of the great masters. At the end of the first year he was asked to submit a religious wor...

The Pearl Fishers: Vocal Score (French, English Language Edition), Vocal Score

Walt Simonson: Buddy, here's the warrant. The court order's in there for the wiretap, the judge gave you sixty days on it. Tell Doyle that Mulderig and Klein will sit in for the Feds. They'll make all the buys. Be sure you keep them informed of every...

The French Connection

Senior Ed Bloom: I don't know if you're aware of this, Josephine, but African parrots, in their native home of the Congo, they speak only French. Josephine: Really? Senior Ed Bloom: You're lucky to get four words out of them in English, but if you we...

Big Fish

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

The Crimson Curtain

..I learned that there's a kind of love which must feel like coming home,...

French Lessons

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

When you live in Paris, and fashion is such a point of pride for the French, it's always around and you're very much exposed to it from an early age. It was always something I knew about and really liked.

Joseph Altuzarra

I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.

Brooke Burke

I just write the characters the way I see them. And maybe that's because I'm surrounded by the most amazing men,from my father to my husband to all of my brothers. They are true heroes!

Gena Showalter

It doesn't take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find amazing culinary antiques that will make it feel like an old French kitchen.

Tyler Florence

The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given a shot in the history of art.

Clifford Ross

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

Larry Ellison

I painted with my husband a portrait of a naked Serge Gainsbourg draped with a French flag, and it hangs in our bedroom. I love gritty and dark art like what the German couple Herakut does.

Stephanie Szostak

Graves leaned forward, eyeing me. “Hey, Dru. You were French-kissing a winged snake. Creeptastic.

Strange Angels

Endless night of Eternal love in the heart of the French Quarter. Tears of Crimson, the New Orleans Vampire Bar.

Tears of Crimson

He had learned Lesson One: Let French women tell you what they want.

PARIS, Apartment for Rent

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

Wives and Daughters

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

A Wrinkle in Time

I don't know what it is about the french language, it seems to be scared of coming out of the mouth so it comes out the nose instead.

P.D.Q. Bach

You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.

Peter Mayle

People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.

Pierre Schaeffer