Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meetings were held here (in Gaza) two months ago with French officials.

I think there was some burgers, and I know there was some french fries. I had been in school for two weeks. That's why my parents were so pleased, getting off to such a glorious start. Getting thrown in the clink in the first month.

Li Na

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon.

Friedrich Engels

Just as Marx used to say about the French "Marxists" of the late seventies: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist

Carine Roitfeld

My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'

Jacques Chirac

Many French have problems and difficulties, ... But violence never solves anything.

David Trezeguet

It is exceptional, I grew up watching Papin, an idol of the French public, ... It means a lot to have the same number of goals as players like him and Fontaine. It shows I have been consistent.

Yannick Noah

Marley, I can sing half of his repertory, but the influence it had on me is more in my way of seeing the things from a strictly musical point of view.

Edmund White

I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.

I tell people, yeah, you'll learn French if you want to stop bleeding.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work.

If he ran for president in French Polynesia, he'd probably get elected.

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.

Carine Roitfeld

I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

Alaina Huffman

I did a little film called 'Nina,' a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone. Zoe Saldana plays Nina.

Ethan Zuckerman

I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.

I don't think there's a problem at all with steroids in the NHL. I can say that.

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.

Brigitte Bardot

It's better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.

Ernest Renan

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

Charles Perrault

Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.

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.

Ira Glass

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

Noah Hathaway

I speak French fluently, so that really helped.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Jean de la Bruyere

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Sydney Smith

As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.

Alfred Jarry

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

Ted Sarandos

A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies.

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.