Quotes about French

French is the language that turns dirt into romance. Votes: 4

I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes. Votes: 4

I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day. Votes: 4

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries. Votes: 4

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. Votes: 4

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. Votes: 4

Avant-garde is French for bullshit Votes: 3

The French are very individualistic. Votes: 3

Teach French and unteach sincerity. Votes: 3

The French are predictably unpredictable. Votes: 3

French was my first language. Votes: 3

I love the French horn. Votes: 3

I love the French horn. Votes: 3

The French cook; we open tins. Votes: 3

Nearly all Italian officers speak French. Votes: 3

Who buys French cars? Not me. Votes: 3

The French courage proceeds from vanity Votes: 3

There's something Vichy about the French. Votes: 3

French women don't eat Wonder Bread. Votes: 3

Basically the French are all peasants. Votes: 3

Instruct the mothers of the French people. Votes: 3

I hate French poetry. What measured glitter! Votes: 3

I learned French before I learned Spanish. Votes: 3

There's always something fishy about the French. Votes: 3

I speak Italian, French, Creole and English. Votes: 3

What isn’t clear, isn’t French. Votes: 3

The French complain of everything, and always. Votes: 3

French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine. Votes: 3

I can make the best French toast. Votes: 3

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries. Votes: 3

I dunno Lloyd, the French are assholes. Votes: 3

Forte is French… for blanket fort. Votes: 3

I think the French girls are fabulous. Votes: 3

I like to provoke. I'm very French. Votes: 3

Chef: Any cook who swears in French. Votes: 3

Salad is roughage and a French idea. Votes: 3

My mother is French, my father is Texan. Votes: 3

I love France. The French respect your privacy. Votes: 3

I speak French fluently, so that really helped. Votes: 3

It's so French to be a cat person. Votes: 3

All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely. Votes: 3

The French like burgers, Madonna and Miami Vice. Votes: 3

French people are strange about America, I think. Votes: 3

Is French kissing in France just called kissing? Votes: 3

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal. Votes: 3

Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange. Votes: 3

Great French design is often about unexpected touches. Votes: 3

Now, now. Southern ladies don't French-kiss and tell. Votes: 3

In Paris you're always surrounded by French people. Votes: 3

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation. Votes: 3

But, though French, she was also very brave... Votes: 3

We are American at puberty. We die French. Votes: 3

I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines. Votes: 3

I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French. Votes: 3

If God exists, there's no way he's French Votes: 3

Hell, I don't know if he speaks French. Votes: 3

French name. English accent. American school. Anna confused. Votes: 3

I work, play and do everything in French. Votes: 3

There is a certain dignity to being French. Votes: 3

You never see a French person eating alone. Votes: 3

The French don't know how to cook breakfast. Votes: 3

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression. Votes: 3

I cannot prevent the French from being French Votes: 3

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism. Votes: 3

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French. Votes: 3

The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them. Votes: 3

Entrepreneur is just French for 'has ideas, does them'. Votes: 3

New Orleans: The least annoying French place on Earth. Votes: 3

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation. Votes: 3

Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies. Votes: 3

'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'. Votes: 3

Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'. Votes: 3

The relentless pursuit of being different is very French. Votes: 3

You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary. Votes: 3

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English. Votes: 3

I may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal. Votes: 3

I can speak French but I cannot understand it. Votes: 3

I would have loved it - without the French Votes: 3

I grew up watching a lot of French cinema. Votes: 3

The French are not normally a Nordic Skiing Nation. Votes: 3

The French revolution taught us the rights of man. Votes: 3

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose. Votes: 3

I never thought I could win the French Open. Votes: 3

Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican. Votes: 3

My father is Swedish and my mother is French. Votes: 3

English physicians kill you, the French let you die. Votes: 3

French people are Italian people in a bad mood. Votes: 3

Let us be French as the Americans are English. Votes: 3

You know French means like sophisticated, well educated, so far. Votes: 3

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. Votes: 3

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction. Votes: 3

Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships Votes: 3

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything! Votes: 3

The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal. Votes: 3

French elegance lies in the balance of romance and restraint. Votes: 3

Mick Jagger could French-kiss a moose. He has child-bearing lips. Votes: 3

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years. Votes: 3

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack. Votes: 3

My first public impression was my French teacher, Derek Swift. Votes: 3

It's normal that people expect more from the French team, Votes: 3

French are what they are without excusing themselves to be. Votes: 3

I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic. Votes: 3

Excuse my French everybody in America, but I am pissed. Votes: 3

I can never forgive God for having invented the French Votes: 3

I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet. Votes: 3

They were French, they were Jews, and they were you. Votes: 3

My name sounds French but that's just a stage name. Votes: 3

If it's not American, the French won't go see it. Votes: 3

French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch. Votes: 3

Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere. Votes: 3

She's a serial kisser. I think her parents are French. Votes: 3

The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.' Votes: 3

I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp. Votes: 3

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. Votes: 3

It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French. Votes: 3

You're always compared to someone, especially when you're a French actress. Votes: 3

Being French, to me, is first and foremost being a revolutionary. Votes: 3

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English. Votes: 3

I do almost all my movies in French. I dub them. Votes: 3

The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse. Votes: 3

There is no pillow so soft as clear conscience : French proverb Votes: 3

Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French. Votes: 3

The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties. Votes: 3

A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion. Votes: 3

With an iron-clad fist, I wake up and French-kiss the morning. Votes: 3

The French are a race of individuals. There is no type. Votes: 3

I'm going to gather all the French people who want change. Votes: 3

Cantona's expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word. Votes: 3

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie. Votes: 3

I took up French boys and wine and I studied psychology. Votes: 3

It has been stressful to be a French resident in America. Votes: 3

I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it. Votes: 3

You write to me that it's impossible. The word is not French. Votes: 3

Of course there are fat French women. There are fat people everywhere. Votes: 3

Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French. Votes: 3

I would rather do really good French films than 'American Pie.' Votes: 3

A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies. Votes: 3

Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party! Votes: 3

The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone. Votes: 3

The French were always masters at mid-range. And I like the attitude. Votes: 3

French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs. Votes: 3

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way. Votes: 3

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French. Votes: 3

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity. Votes: 3

French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything. Votes: 3

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese. Votes: 3

Colin Montgomerie is a few French fries short of a Happy Meal. Votes: 3

I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq. Votes: 3

I'm a sucker for French fries - I love that they're salty! Votes: 3

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine. Votes: 3

The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light. Votes: 3

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food. Votes: 3

I like to listen to French radio; I'm trying to learn French. Votes: 3

I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language. Votes: 3

French: why does this language even exist? Everyone there speaks english anyway. Votes: 3

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation. Votes: 3

My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way. Votes: 3

If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch. Votes: 3

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French. Votes: 3

Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it. Votes: 3

There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public. Votes: 3

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you. Votes: 3

Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical. Votes: 3

My favourite film is 'Le Diner de Cons,' a French movie. Votes: 3

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy. Votes: 3

The French are useless. They can't organize a piss-up in a brewery. Votes: 3

I have Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, French and Ethiopian blood in my veins. Votes: 3

The French people have chosen change. This change I will put into place. Votes: 3

Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.' Votes: 3

I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian. Votes: 3

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. Votes: 3

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. Votes: 3

I always watch the French news on the Internet while having my breakfast. Votes: 3

I've always considered the French-speaking part of Switzerland as a province of France. Votes: 3

I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty. Votes: 3

My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French. Votes: 3

A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines. Votes: 3

Original, in French: La bonne cuisine est la base du véritable bonheur. Votes: 3

The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite. Votes: 3

As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen. Votes: 3

The only thing strong about the French Army is their damn body odor. Votes: 3

Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it. Votes: 3

I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes. Votes: 3

I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French. Votes: 3

The French - cheese-eating surrender monkeys. The Germans - schnitzel snarfing stormtrooper spawn. Votes: 3

If Giggs was French, Pires or myself would have been on the bench. Votes: 3

To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman Votes: 3

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue. Votes: 3

Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French. Votes: 3

The French - they like jazz, theyve been on jazz a long time. Votes: 3

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English. Votes: 3

The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur. Votes: 3

American-French relations, their pitch and volume, have always been influenced by the media. Votes: 3

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other. Votes: 3

I don't like people who speak French in public places. This includes the French. Votes: 3

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack. Votes: 3

Who's got two thumbs, speaks limited French and hasn't cried once today? This moi. Votes: 3

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult. Votes: 3

I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural. Votes: 3

These French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away! Votes: 3

French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries. Votes: 3

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well. Votes: 3

There was French kissing, and then there was Cajun French kissing. Spicier, harder, wilder. Votes: 3

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach. Votes: 3

The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work. Votes: 3

The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle . Votes: 3

The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive. Votes: 3

The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people. Votes: 3

[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity. Votes: 3

England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French. Votes: 3

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system Votes: 3

Energy doesn't communicate in English, French, Chinese or Swahili, but it does speak clearly Votes: 3

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude. Votes: 3

There's a kind of amateurishness among French actresses, but I don't share that completely. Votes: 3

Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour. Votes: 3

I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them. Votes: 3

Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks. Votes: 3

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years Votes: 3

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic. Votes: 3

The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact. Votes: 3

I speak English, so I am no longer cute. My tongue itches for French. Votes: 3

I was as repelled by the French as I was attracted by their country. Votes: 3

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles. Votes: 3

It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves. Votes: 3

Even if I think in English, it's more a language of acting than French. Votes: 3

I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais. Votes: 3

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to. Votes: 3

At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying. Votes: 3

Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it. Votes: 3

...What do you do with all your money?""Me and the French hoard gold. Votes: 3

To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American. Votes: 3

My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years. Votes: 3

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood. Votes: 3

I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films. Votes: 3

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas. Votes: 3

I am addicted to 'Vogue' magazines, be they French, British - I adore, adore, adore. Votes: 3

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers. Votes: 3

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect. Votes: 3

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind. Votes: 3

I can do whatever I want, but I'm a French girl. It goes with everything. Votes: 3

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends. Votes: 3

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French. Votes: 3

The French flag is the only one to have a staff a thousand feet tall. Votes: 3

HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English. Votes: 3

Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret. Votes: 3

Je suis autant Chinois que Fran c° ais. I am as much Chinese as French. Votes: 3

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite. Votes: 3

There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden. Where can Brigitte Bardot hide? Votes: 3

China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods. Votes: 3

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant. Votes: 3

Affaires meant 'business.' How like the French to kill two birds with one stone. Votes: 3

I am attached to the French language. I will defend the ubiquitous use of French. Votes: 3

Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods. Votes: 3

When I first began writing music I was really inspired by the French electro scene. Votes: 3

Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one, Votes: 3

The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war. Votes: 3

My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection. Votes: 3

Let us be French, let us be English, but most importantly let us be Canadian! Votes: 3

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. Votes: 3

Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one. Votes: 3

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion. Votes: 3

My French is still good. That's a beautiful language and I'm happy to speak it. Votes: 3

A nation that is hungry for God will not go hungry. Duffy French, book character Votes: 3

The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver. Votes: 3

Whenever I hear French spoken as I approve, I find myself quietly falling in love. Votes: 3

There are a lot of French actresses who just hate me now. I've made enemies. Votes: 3

When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug. Votes: 3

The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. Votes: 3

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country. Votes: 3

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris. Votes: 3

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding. Votes: 3

I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties. Votes: 3

Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking. Votes: 3

Our special task, as French Canadians, is to insert into America the spirit of Christian France. Votes: 3

I really like hamburgers and French fries, and I don't consider myself some kind of gourmand. Votes: 3

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie. Votes: 3

Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it. Votes: 3

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. Votes: 3

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that. Votes: 3

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities. Votes: 3

Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest. Votes: 3

The chief concern of the French Impressionists was the discovery of balance between light and dark. Votes: 3

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad. Votes: 3

At sea let the British their neighbors defy-The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky. Votes: 3

I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up. Votes: 3

Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned. Votes: 3

Real French people don't bake! At least they don't bake anything complicated, finicky, tricky or unreliable. Votes: 3

I was definitely ahead of my friends. I was French-kissing girls way before anybody else was. Votes: 3

I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous! Votes: 3

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. Votes: 3

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so. Votes: 3

I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France. Votes: 3

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods. Votes: 3

My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school. Votes: 3

When I was 20, I went to Paris and tried to meet French women. It didn't work. Votes: 3

French cinema allows women to look... a certain way and be talented at the same time. Votes: 3

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. Votes: 3

Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money. Votes: 3

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon. Votes: 3

[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste. Votes: 3

Did not manage to convince the French people that we were going in the right direction. Votes: 3

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. Votes: 3

This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory. Votes: 3

The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it. Votes: 3

The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur Votes: 3

They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English. Votes: 3

I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch. Votes: 3

I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff. Votes: 3

I like food too much to go on some crazy diet. French fries are my favorite downfall. Votes: 3

When I am drunk I am at my best. It is the national knack of the French. Votes: 3

I'm quite into the French way - simple elegance with just a suggestion of sexiness, nothing vulgar. Votes: 3

I do like potato chips, French fries and Barney's burgers in L.A. with seasoned curly fries. Votes: 3

Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children. Votes: 3

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra. Votes: 3

Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental. Votes: 3

Everything French is amazing, especially creme brulee, but then burnt sugar works for me in any capacity. Votes: 3

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked. Votes: 3

Some French socialist said that private property was theft ... I say that private property is a nuisance. Votes: 3

I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons. Votes: 3

Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others. Votes: 3

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. Votes: 3

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French. Votes: 3

Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible. Votes: 3

I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so. (15th February 1945) Votes: 3

Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies. Votes: 3

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left. Votes: 3

I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint. Votes: 3

Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies Votes: 3

I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland. Votes: 3

I don't have to 'freedom-kiss' my wife when what I really want to do is French-kiss her. Votes: 3

On conducting: If you can just barely hear the French horns on stage, the balance is perfect. Votes: 3

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity. Votes: 3

The French have a very deep knowledge of Islam in many areas, and we can exchange views. Votes: 3

I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME. Votes: 3

Yeah. I know. How stupid is it to French kiss a vampire and not expect sharp teeth? Votes: 3

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating. Votes: 3

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings. Votes: 3

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying Votes: 3

I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me. Votes: 3

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra Votes: 3

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings Votes: 3

I like to watch French movies with the volume up so my neighbors could think I'm terrorist. Votes: 3

Never say "Au revoir" unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person. Votes: 3

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other. Votes: 3

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks. Votes: 3

I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably. Votes: 3

The only way the French are going in is if we tell them we found truffles in Iraq. Votes: 3

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually. Votes: 3

In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke. Votes: 3

Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that. Votes: 3

There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one. Votes: 3

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French. Votes: 3

I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour. Votes: 3

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party. Votes: 3

The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces. Votes: 3

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way. Votes: 3

I'd love to do some comedy. Particularly French comedy, which I know sounds like a contradiction in terms. Votes: 3

Let's not forget, there are three languages in Canada - English, French, and there's the language of jobs. Votes: 3

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth. Votes: 3

She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish. Votes: 3

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal. Votes: 3

There was another war-related casualty today. The French were injured when they tried to jump on our bandwagon. Votes: 3

It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French. Votes: 3

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking. Votes: 3

I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food. Votes: 3

It was not,' said Jutta, reaching the limits of her French, 'very easy to be good then. Votes: 3

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories. Votes: 3

French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat. Votes: 3

It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French. Votes: 3

how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything. Votes: 3

Hey, I used to eat at McDonald's: I liked the taste of the food, especially the French fries. Votes: 3

If any one element of French cooking can be called important, basic and essential, that element is soup. Votes: 3

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language. Votes: 3

What do you think has been the effect of the French revolution? It is too early to tell. Votes: 3

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England. Votes: 3

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at #‎ Wimbledon . Votes: 3

The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag Votes: 3

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually. I'm bilingual, so I had experience with French. Votes: 3

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny. Votes: 3

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures. Votes: 3

I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, But I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast. Votes: 3

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. Votes: 3

Maybe all spirits flew to Paris, not only French ones. Could you haunt a place you'd never been? Votes: 3

the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift. Votes: 3

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own. Votes: 3

It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe. Votes: 3

Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else. Votes: 3

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature. Votes: 3

Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people. Votes: 3

In French you say, "I'm alone against the world" and that means "I hate everybody and everybody's against me." Votes: 3

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction. Votes: 3

I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter. Votes: 3

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris. Votes: 3

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Renaissance. Votes: 3

Why would we expect the French to fight to liberate the Iraqis when they wouldn't fight to liberate themselves? Votes: 3

I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation. Votes: 3

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it. Votes: 3

France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets. Votes: 3

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar. Votes: 3

You chose to come to Paris, of all places," Mencheres replied. So what? Got something against the French? Votes: 3

By the way, the secret of speaking French is confidence. Whether you are right or wrong, you don't hesitate. Votes: 3

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. Votes: 3

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German. Votes: 3

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France. Votes: 3

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction. Votes: 3

Certain foods no longer agree with me. If I eat French fries, I might feel sick to my stomach. Votes: 3

Because French is the language of love, my boy. Something you should keep in mind, but will soon forget. Votes: 3

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me? Votes: 3

I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period. Votes: 3

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am. Votes: 3

I dont think theres a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter. Votes: 3

I'm not the bake-sale-mom type - though once in a while, I'll make challah French toast for my sons. Votes: 3

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power. Votes: 3

French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is. Votes: 3

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me. Votes: 3

I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster. Votes: 3

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers. Votes: 3

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one. Votes: 3

I like French fries," I say. I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie. Votes: 3

I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school. Votes: 3

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. Votes: 3

The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.' Votes: 3

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law. Votes: 3

We can't be French and Muslim at the same time. And that's exactly what ISIS wants that population to think. Votes: 3

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts. Votes: 3

I lifted my eyes to the heavens and asked for help because if God exists, there's no way he's French. Votes: 3

We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable. Votes: 3

I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese. Votes: 3

Puerto Ricans are many colors - we are Spanish, we're French, we're Thai, Indian, we're almost black, some of us. Votes: 3

Last night I ordered a whole meal in French. Even the waiter was amazed - it was a Chinese restaurant! Votes: 3

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece. Votes: 3

My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home. Votes: 3

When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican. Votes: 3

The English learned, in my view, how to use harmony much earlier than the French or the Italians, or the Germans. Votes: 3

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor. Votes: 3

I love Indian, Italian and Mexican food. And if it's a romantic type of thing, I like a good French restaurant. Votes: 3

I always try to slip healthy things by my kids. I give them sweet potato French fries and fake chicken nuggets. Votes: 3

The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air. Votes: 3

I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars. Votes: 3

I would prefer to listen to a French classical composer like Olivier Messiaen than to the pop hits of the day. Votes: 3

For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold. Votes: 3

In school in Lebanon, we were not allowed to speak Arabic during breaks - it had to be French or English. Votes: 3

The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air. Votes: 3

I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory. Votes: 3

There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life ... Votes: 3

It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers. Votes: 3

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. Votes: 3

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French. Votes: 3

I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing. Votes: 3

I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere. Votes: 3

You know, I would like to ask to the other parts of Canada to respect the minority of the French Canadians. Votes: 3

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee. Votes: 3

The England manager job is not for me - I'm very happy wih what I'm doing in French football for now. Votes: 3

I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants. Votes: 3

The best way to execute French cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken. Votes: 3

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her. Votes: 3

La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, 'I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses.' Votes: 3

I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life. Votes: 3

Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories. Votes: 3

French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless. Votes: 3

I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup. Votes: 3

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know. Votes: 3

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns? Votes: 3

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine Votes: 3

You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good. Votes: 3

My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't. Votes: 3

And the '99 finals at the French - if I had won that one easily, no one would have talked about it. Votes: 3

The French are nice people. I allow them to sing and to write, and they allow me to do whatever I like. Votes: 3

I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true. Votes: 3

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general. Votes: 3

When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French. Votes: 3

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know. Votes: 3

The French don't have a baseball team. And if they did, there'd only be a left field, and no one would be safe. Votes: 3

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. Votes: 3

My wife's French. I mean I speak a bit of French but I've lived amongst French, you know, most of my adult life. Votes: 3

I really have no idea what the French think of my characters, or why The Devil All the Time did so well there. Votes: 3

Just as Marx used to say about the French Marxists of the late 'seventies: All I know is that I am not a Marxist. Votes: 3

I don't eat bad stuff too much but I have my glass of wine as I am French and it would be insulting not to. Votes: 3

How's this for a headline? 'French fries'. Votes: 3

It's Fendi. French, Fendi, both start with an F... I fell in love with it. Smells like grown-man cologne. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic. Votes: 2

Sunday's my day off, where I eat whatever I want. I don't not let myself have something. I do love French fries and bread. Votes: 2

Sushi is something very exclusive. It is not like a McDonald's, not like a hot dog, not like a French fry. It's very high-class cooking in Japan. Votes: 2

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan. Votes: 2

We have these weapons of mass destruction on every street corner, and they're called donuts, cheeseburgers, French fries, potato chips, junk food. Our kids are living on a junk food diet. Votes: 2

Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept together by Baathist tyranny and violence. Votes: 2

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. Votes: 2

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring. Votes: 2

The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. Votes: 2

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years. Votes: 2

I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food. Votes: 2

I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities. Votes: 2

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s. Votes: 2

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.' Votes: 2

Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that. Votes: 2

I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it. Votes: 2

This is a universal, unique movie, it has potential to cross barriers. But we never thought about that on set, when we were doing the film. We knew that in making a silent movie, we were doing something a little bit under the wire, a bit interdit. It's a pastiche, but for the French taste, you would have thought. Votes: 2