French Quotes - page 8

As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday. (Bryan Batt)

Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. Im crazy about L.A. because at the farmers market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.

Benjamin Millepied

You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.

Bernard Pivot

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.

Bernard Pivot

I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies. But its not by chance directors choose me for physical parts. I like to do that. I like to tell a story also with the body. It's important, because you can tell a lot of things.

Cecile de France

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.

Cecilia Bartoli

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way.

Chita Rivera

I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.

Colleen Haskell

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

Constance Baker Motley

The first wine I drank, a Chateau Haut-Brion, I was 22, it was my first glass of wine, and I discovered voluptuousness. From there, I started tasting French wines, then Spanish wines, then Italian wines.

Carole Bouquet

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. (David Amram)

I find that there are a lot of similarities between French and Japanese food. I think they're two countries that have really systemized their cuisine and codified it.

David Chang

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

David Morrissey

And we live in a French Quarter a lot of the time, in New Orleans. And the camaraderie of everybody there. Everybody takes care of each other.

Delta Burke

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

Eliot Engel

The French are very individualistic.

Eric Rohmer

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

Fabrice Luchini

My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.

Francois Pinault

At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying.

Frank Robinson

There's no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don't know.

Geraldo Rivera

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra. (Gerry Mulligan)

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.

Glenn Danzig

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

Goldwin Smith

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.

Gavin Bryars

German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!

Helmut Jahn

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