France Quotes - Page 23

• Frances Bellamy thought the changes spoiled the poetry of it. He was a pretty stern guy. Everybody has some sense of humor, but I don't think he had much.

  John Bellamy Foster

  Thinking, Guy, Sense Of Humor

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• In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

  Larry Gatlin

  Mother, Florida, Florence Nightingale

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• There are too many coming from different countries. When we started, foreign players were in the minority. All the best players from Spain, France, Brazil, Argentina are going to England. And Ireland is bound to suffer.

  Kevin Kilbane

  Country, Player, Suffering

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• There arent many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called Horned Pigeon. He had been on the run and hadnt eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Running, War, Book

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• In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Memorable, Long, Meals

  "Dr John Briffa assesses Sebastian Faulks' shopping basket". Interview with John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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• France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Peace, War, Believe

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• Tis better using France than trusting France;
  Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas,
  Which He hath given for fence impregnable,
  And with their helps only defend ourselves;
  In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Sea, Safety

  William Shakespeare (1830). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens ...”, p.73

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• The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The U.K. has not.

  Martin Rees

  Cutting, Germany, Canada

  "How science became cool" by Martin Reese, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2010.

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• At my home in the southwest of France, I grow oak, hazel, and lemon trees in my backyard.

  Alain Ducasse

  Home, Tree, Backyards

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• I love France. The French respect your privacy.

  Margaux Hemingway

  Privacy

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• Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

  Marianne Vos

  Cycling, Riding, Thanks

  "Vos: Britain 'way ahead' of Netherlands for women in cycling". Interview with Felix Lowe, www.eurosport.com. August 8, 2014.

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• It’s funny, I started by making fake American movies, The Transporter and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything was in English. But then afterwards, I was looking at real French movies like the Jacques Audiard movies.

  Louis Leterrier

  Real, Fake, Shooting

  "Director Louis Leterrier Talks Shooting On Location, Practical Effects vs. CG, and More on the Set of NOW YOU SEE ME". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 15, 2013.

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• Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Stars, Lying

  Charles Dickens (2012). “A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)”, p.171, Top Five Books LLC

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• I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal.

  Noah Baumbach

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• The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It was fought almost exclusively on German soil...but before the war ended, it involved most of the nations of Europe. The underlying cause of the war was the deep-seated hostility between the German Protestants and German Catholics - with the Jesuits and Cardinal Richelieu, who was the real ruler of France, fanning the fires to accomplish their ends.

  John Daniel

  Religious, Real, War

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• And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.

  Bo Burnham

  Funny, Humor, Two

  Song: New Math, Album: Bo Burnham

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• So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for
  f-k all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.

  Eddie Izzard

  Europe, Turkeys, Empires

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• An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.

  William Shakespeare

  World, England, Traitor

  William Shakespeare (2007). “Henry V (Shakespeare Library Classic)”, p.156, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Some of the most important caves, like Lascaux in the Dordogne region in France, have had to be closed down. There had been too many people allowed in, and they left a mold on the walls that is spreading and which can't really be stopped.

  Werner Herzog

  Wall, People, Important

  "'The Birth of the Modern Human Soul'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 16, 2011.

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• I'm constantly correcting young people and fashion students in this nation when they say "Well, I do couture." By definition, you don't. You have to be licensed by the government of France to do couture. So don't use that term. You can say that you do one-of-a-kind, you can say it's custom, but you can't say it's couture - because it's inaccurate.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Government, People

  "Project Runway’s Top Gunn". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February, 2012.

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• The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in France. You say, "Do you want a piece of this movie?" And he's got to sell this movie to get his money back. That's the brains of it; that's the genius of this financing. "You want Germany? Give us a million dollars and you've got Germany."

  Bill Murray

  Independent, Giving, Guy

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• American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.

  Woody Allen

  Art, Cinema, Film

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• France has given us the best filmmakers and food.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Given, Filmmaker, Best Film

  Source: gubelette.tumblr.com

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• I am just not thinking of India's deliverance. It will come, but will it be worth if England and France fall, or if they come out victorious over Germany ruined and humbled?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fall, Thinking, India

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• China is exciting because it is an extremely curious and interested market. What more can a designer ask for? The client here is bold and willing to try new things, which a country with a long fashion history wouldn't dare. France or England is weighed down by all these rules, elaborate etiquette, do's and don'ts. Things here move incredibly quickly.

  Michael Kors

  Country, Fashion, Moving

  "Michael Kors Talks Kim Kardashian and Bar Mitzvah Fashion in Shanghai". Interview with Alice Pfeiffer, www.elle.com. May 14, 2014.

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