Quotes of: French Keyword

I don't feel guilty about expressing myself in French; nor do I feel that I am continuing the work of the colonizers.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

There is this idea that it's very different from the French point of view to work in America blah, blah, blah. But I think it's different from one person to the other, not from one country to the other.

Vincent Cassel

Tom Ford once told me that he found French women sexier than American ones. He said, 'Americans are too clean...' I took no offense.

Linda Wells

I'm as frustrated with the French, I think, as anyone, but look, there's going to be other challenges and there are going to be other issues. As long as there's a war on terrorism going on, we're all going to have to work together.

John McCain

The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability.

Mercy Otis Warren

[O]ne cannot separate violence from the very exist­ ence of the state (as the apparatus of class domination): from the standpoint of the'subordinated and oppressed, the very existence of a state is a fact of violence (in the same sense in which, for...

In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution

Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but Germany, my friend, is playing a very different tune. Germany has many more birds in her sights than just France... S...

Ivanov

Inside me there was everything I had believed was outside. There was, in particular, the sun, light, and all colors. There were even the shapes of objects and the distance between objects. Everything was there and movement as well… Light is an elem...

And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, Blind Hero of the French Revolution

In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?

Collected Poems in English and French

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.

Carolina Rain

You chose to come to Paris, of all places,” Mencheres replied. So what? Got something against the French?

Destined for an Early Grave

Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.

Eat, Pray, Love

Give us being and feeling over having any day.

French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

The portieres were drawn across the French windows now, veiling the stars outside - that were there nevertheless. ("Speak To Me Of Death")

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on me.

Balthazar

I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.

Francois Hollande

The moment kids start to lie is the moment storytelling begins. They are talking about things they didn't see. It's amazing. It's a wonderful moment. Parents should celebrate. 'Hurray! My boy finally started to lie!' All right! It calls for celebrati...

Kim Young-ha

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!

Emmy Rossum

I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

Orson Welles

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

Sally Kirkland

It was not,' said Jutta, reaching the limits of her French, 'very easy to be good then.

All the Light We Cannot See