French Quotes - page 9

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood. (Herb Ritts)
There's something Vichy about the French. View quote
Ivor Novello
I grew up watching a lot of French cinema. View quote
J.H. Wyman
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. View quote
John Corigliano
It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual. View quote
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking
I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure. View quote
Kimbra
Cinco de Mayo is an important day. The Mexicans had to defend themselves from the French. It is historically significant, but it is not Mexican Independence Day. View quote
Kuno Becker
Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done. View quote
Lalla Ward
I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life. View quote
LeRoy Neiman
I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche. View quote
Louis Jourdan
There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating. (Louis Leakey)
It's true, I'm the youngest, highest-grossing French director. I have a few records, but no one knows or simply doesn't care. That's good, because I like that. Ultimately, I want to keep working, making a lot of movies, and get better at it. It's about finding great scripts and bringing them to life. View quote
Louis Leterrier
The earliest movies that I loved were French movies and Italian movies. I grew up watching those kind of movies and often find the truest looks at human nature - you can find them in another country's movies. View quote
Lucy Fisher
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. View quote
Marilyn Hacker
Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies. View quote
Norm Dicks
I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural. View quote
Nancy Wake
I speak French fluently, so that really helped. View quote
Noah Hathaway
I work, play and do everything in French. View quote
Philippe Falardeau
The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal. View quote
Pierre Salinger
Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek. View quote
Robert Fitzgerald
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. (Robert Morgan)
I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking. View quote
Robert Stack
No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld. View quote
Rod Parsley
French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism. View quote
Rashid al-Ghannushi
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. View quote
Sally Kirkland