Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tommy Robredo

I am not here to prepare for the French Open. I am here to try to win the tournament,

Jessica Biel

I do like potato chips, French fries and Barney's burgers in L.A. with seasoned curly fries.

Voltaire

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Quincy Jones

After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

Jean Alesi

I'm not sure they understand everything about racing cars. I am not sure that this is wise.

Jacques Chirac

The French people stand with all their hearts at the side of the American people,

The French love stark plays about power and sexuality,

The French have taste in all they do - which we are quite without; For Nature, that to them gave gout, To us gave only gout

Kim Raver

I've learned from my French husband and the way they eat, it's all about moderation. And that's really sustainable.

Society is getting more and more dangerous, more and more violent, and the French are trying to find answers, to find better solutions.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

Lance Armstrong

The interrogations, the French and everything going on hasn't set too well with him,

They'd watch the game and be talking on the phone, talking French and laughing.

Angela Jones

It's a French melodrama, and everyone loves a French film. This one should be no exception.

Lily Cole

It was a scandal when I did French 'Playboy' in 2008, though I was never actually nude in it. I think it's really funny that I'll have a cover of 'Playboy' to show my grandkids.

Curt Weldon

The French had an obvious financial interest in Iraq. That's been documented. They were involved financially in Iraq and in some cases, I think with weapons of mass destruction.

Carine Roitfeld

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

French Montana

I don't want to sound like Ross; I don't want to sound like Puff. I want to make my own music: French Montana.

Alfred Jarry

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Tahar Rahim

In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.

We are saddened by the statements of the French prime minister and of President (Jacques) Chirac.

William John Wills

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.

Ashley Tisdale

Sunday's my day off, where I eat whatever I want. I don't not let myself have something. I do love French fries and bread.

David Lynch

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

Helen Vendler

I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language, and my father spoke it to us.

Florent Malouda

We have to keep the same team spirit in the French Cup.

Helena Bonham Carter

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

Joshua Prince-Ramus

When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

Charles V

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.

Carine Roitfeld

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

Eleanor Catton

The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate. Very often, there are phrases in Italian, German and French that are left untranslated.

Roland Barthes

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.