Quotes of: French Keyword

The French believe that kids feel confident when they're able to do things for themselves, and do those things well. After children have learned to talk, adults don't praise them for saying just anything. They praise them for saying interesting thing...

Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

For years, "Sorry, I don't speak French" has been the reflexive response of English-speaking Canadians to a request, a comment, or a greeting in the other official language. Part apology, part defiance, it is a declaration of the otherness. That is n...

Sorry, I Don't Speak French: Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won't Go Away

In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the Italian army but by a microbe. A mysterious new disease spread through sex killed many of Charles’s soldiers and left survivors...

Carl Zimmer

If you see your neighbor's beard burning then wet your own.

French Guianese

She had only a candle's light to see by, but candlelight never did badly by any woman.

The French Lieutenant's Woman

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

Edvard Munch

I just can't fathom why anyone would stand on a ledge when there's a respectable amount of walking space right next to it.

Anna and the French Kiss

I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

Anna and the French Kiss

You don't always have to solve your problems alone, you know. This is why people talk to their friends.

Anna and the French Kiss

To: Anna Oliphant From: Étienne St. Clair Subject: So . . . Does that mean I can call you now?

Anna and the French Kiss

Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.

Recollections on the French Revolution

Blood may be thicker than water, but it's certainly not as thick as ketchup. Nor does it go as well with French fries.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I always eat mac and cheese. That's what I'm known for, just very simple food: sandwiches, French fries, very unhealthy, but yeah that's what I eat.

Bethany Mota

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.

Sean Connery

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

Joanne Harris

I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've been sort of part of the culture, part of the geography, since I was quite young - the imprint was there.

Charlotte Rampling

Sometimes it's just 'Oh my God, I love the taste of fried oysters on French bread with mayonnaise and an order of French fries.' I'm not going to lie to you - I deal with that temptation every single day, many times.

Richard Simmons

We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the...

Daniel Kahneman

I love magazines. I always read 'Time,' 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist.' When I get my hair cut, French 'Vogue,' French 'Elle,' 'Paris Match' - I read them all in 10 minutes.

Janine di Giovanni

Before a shoot, I'll watch what I eat. During the shoot, I watch what I eat. Afterwards, the first thing I do is go have a steak and French fries.

Camila Alves

I was ecstatic when they re-named "French fries" as "freedom fries." Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

Johnny Depp