The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
I wouldn’t say that I’m an Italian wine connoisseur. I do like red wine. I guess my favorites now are Bordeauxes. French.
The French cook; we open tins.
When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
I’m a jazz musician in that I have achieved Grade 3 on the French horn.
If you made all the French fries you ate, you would eat them much less often, if only because they’re so much work. The same holds true for fried chicken, chips, cakes, pies, and ice cream. Enjoy these treats as often as you’re willing to prepare them – chances are good it won’t be every day.
I like to listen to French radio; I’m trying to learn French.
I just saw Memento. It’s very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.
Some friends of Israel believe that the Palestinians will never, in their hearts, accept a Jewish state in Palestine. Yet Germans and French, Chinese and Japanese, Mexicans and Americans have overcome their once insurmountable differences. Palestinians and Jews also have much to gain from peaceful coexistence.
French cinema has always been very interesting, and it’s still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it’s great to still have a cinema that doesn’t try to emulate, for example, American cinema.
It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves.
Throughout my childhood, and thanks to Arsenal’s former striker Thierry Henry and other French players, I always dreamed of playing for this club, so that dream has been fulfilled.
My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.
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.
Back in my 20s, when I wrote ‘A Place of Greater Safety,’ the French Revolution novel, I thought, ‘I’ll always have to write historical novels because I can’t do plots.’ But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.
In Paris and later in Marseille, I was surrounded by some of the best food in the world, and I had an enthusiastic audience in my husband, so it seemed only logical that I should learn how to cook ‘la cuisine bourgeoise’ – good, traditional French home cooking.
I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.
My mother likes what I cook, but doesn’t think it’s French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I’m the quintessential French chef.
I’ve always thought – and I don’t even know if I’d be right for the part – that Jean Seberg would make a great biopic. She was in Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Breathless,’ she played Joan of Arc. She had this eventful and traumatic adulthood, she thought the FBI was after her, and she became a darling of the French New Wave.
No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.
When I’m on a strict eating regimen, at some point I have to have French fries, a cheeseburger and some pizza. And Oreos and vanilla ice cream!
I’ve been working with Spanish, French, some more American, and Japanese directors. And then I realized I have to study English, and that’s why I moved to New York two years ago.
When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.
The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people’s legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.
I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest.
It’s funny because I think that both France and Britain are known for their distinctive styles, and everyone says that France is so chic and elegant but I think, more than that, French women are renowned for dressing in what suits them.
We’re all taking part in this solidarity. The French, the Germans, just like all the Europeans in the ESM. Let’s stop thinking that there’s only one country who’s going to pay for the others. That’s false.
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.
I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.
The French press can be very harsh, and the one thing they can’t bear is multi-tasking. They despise it to the highest degree, so from the age of five I’ve been taught that if I did two things at the same time, it meant I didn’t know how to do one. It’s an obsession that they have.
My grandfather was a French professor in Kolkata, though I never met him.
Matisse was my God. I’m a French artist, that’s for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I am not pouring my guts out; I keep them inside.
When I was in the U.S. for ‘Swimming Pool,’ people had asked me, ‘So are you going to settle down in Hollywood?’ And I said, ‘No, I’m French! I am living in France. I am not going to be American.’
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don’t build on the past. There is no past.
I may be French, but I’m playing for Arsenal.
Great French design is often about unexpected touches.
A month before the season I stop putting ketchup on my french fries.
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism.
Le Cirque at first was one of those general French restaurants in town, which were cooking more or less the same food. At Le Cirque, I wanted to do something different while respecting the foundation of the restaurant. I did that through the menu.
My style is cinematic; it is a touch of French woman of the ’60s and American hippie with a Brooklyn edge. I love wearing wide-brim hats, newsboy caps, mini dresses and sheer blouses with details.
I like salty, creamy foods. I could sit down with a bag of chips and French onion dip and go to town! That would be on my last-supper list.
My dad’s an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.
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.
Whether it’s destiny or fate or whatever, I don’t think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.
I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.
I always feel I’m better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don’t read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.
Nothing could be more French than pastry.
I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it’s in my blood.
The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They’re all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.
The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
I love shooting French films because I don’t have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up.
I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I’ve acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.
You don’t like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.
I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what’s called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.
French women don’t have too many clothes – a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.
I think London, New York, Paris, Milan, any big city has its own fashion. I don’t know why they make such a big thing of Paris. I think maybe it comes from French New Wave films portraying the French girl as very feminine.
