Best 465 quotes in «france quotes» category

how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.

I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.

I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.

I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

I began by playing for the biggest club in the Lorraine region, went on to the biggest club in France and ended up with the biggest in the world.

I cannot prevent the French from being French

I don't have any problem with coverage of victims in France. My heart goes out to anyone who was hurt or killed over there.

I don't know Heidi Klum. She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesn't know who she is.

I even had success with commercials, which is strange, because out of the six ideas, two won the platinum Minerva in France - it's the Oscar for their commercials. One was about the Renault diesel and the other about the regular Renault.

If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.

If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - both in domestic policy and in foreign and European policy.

I don't believe Vladimir Putin is a killer, a threat to France, to others in this region. Nothing Vladimir Putin has done would make me reach that conclusion.

If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.

If you become a chef because you're obsessed by becoming a celebrity, getting my ass kicked and working my nuts off the way I did in France and getting pushed around those kitchens wasn't about becoming famous.

If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we sayEnglish is a global language.

If you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France for Jews

I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.

I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial plaque. The French do not season their food with regret.

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

I have to admit that WWII France was not at all on my radar for Kristin Hannah.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.

I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

I love France. The French respect your privacy.

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

I'm very happy in France making movies.

In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?

In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say.

In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.

In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.