France Quotes - Page 24

• Chef means boss and in France you get an office chef and you get a chef on a building site, etc. So I'm a chef de cuisine, chef of the kitchen, and that means that I'm in charge of a team.

  Paul Rankin

  Team, Mean, Office

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe.

  Peter King

  Reality, Europe, Nsa

  "Peter King: Obama should ‘stop apologizing’ for NSA". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell. It was news to me that there had been talk, even in the First World War, of dropping Colorado beetles on German potato crops and that kind of thing.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, England, Colorado

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Men, Soul

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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• For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Long Ago, Paris, Interest

  Jeff Lindsay (2008). “Dexter in the Dark”, p.9, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Give me a few minutes to talk away my face and I can seduce the Queen of France.

  Voltaire

  Queens, Giving, Faces

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

  Voltaire

  Men, Hammers, Anvils

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

  Scott Thompson

  Thinking, Speaks French, Giving

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• Pharisaism became Talmudism...But the spirit of the Ancient Pharisee survives unaltered. When the Jew...studies the Talmud, he is actually repeating the arguments used in the Palestinian academies. From Palestine to Babylonia; from Babylonia to North Africa, Italy, Spain, France and Germany; from these to Poland, Russia and eastern Europe generally, ancient Pharisaism has wandered.

  Louis Finkelstein

  Russia, Europe, Spain

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• Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. But if unlimited or unbalanced power of disposing property, be put into the hands of those who have no property, France will find, as we have found, the lamb committed to the custody of the world. In such a case, all the pathetic exhortations and addresses of the national assembly to the people, to respect property, will be regarded no more than the warbles of the songsters of the forest.

  John Adams

  Hands, People, Liberty

  "Discourses on Davila : A Series of Papers on Political History first published in the Gazette of the United States". Book by John Adams, No. 13, 1805.

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• It goes back a long way. I wanted to make Tristan + Isolde as my second movie. My first movie was The Duellists. And I was standing in a very romantic part of France looking around me thinking, "My God, this would be perfect for Tristan," and to cut a long story short it never happened because I did Alien instead.

  Ridley Scott

  Cutting, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• 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.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Lucky, Actors, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.

  Claude Lelouch

  America, People, President

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.

  Abderrahmane Sissako

  Country, Stories, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The French always seemed to be so chic. The food was better, the clothes were better, the makeup was better, the hair was better. Everything was better in France.

  Helen Mirren

  Makeup, Hair, Clothes

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary tale. Emma is more than a character; she gives us an insight into human nature. With Emma, we are diving into the complexities of Flaubert's psyche.

  Sophie Barthes

  Character, Simple, Giving

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is not that easy to say.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  America, Easy, Jackie

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 17, 2013.

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• Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Food, Humble, Rocks

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• Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant

  Brian De Palma

  Interesting, Brilliant, Film

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.184, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Skins, Handbags, Umbrella

  Speaking to onMilwaukee.com, February 1, 2005.

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• Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of the United States planted poplars and other trees during the war of independence, "as symbols of growing freedom." The Jacobins in Paris planted their first tree of liberty in 1790. The symbols used in France to decorate their trees of liberty were tricoloured ribbons, circles to indicate unity, triangles to signify equality, and a cap of liberty. Trees of liberty were planted by the Italians in the revolution of 1848.

  E. Cobham Brewer

  War, Circles, Paris

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• Wrangel pretended to combat the Bolsheviks, Bolshevism is Jewry. In order to retain the favor of the Jews holding the real power in England, France and the United States, Wrangel showed to the Jews signs of his submission to them. Thereafter the Russian masses abandoned Wrangel as a traitor or as a comedian. It is impossible simultaneously to be an auxiliary of the Jew and an enemy of the Bolsheviki who are Jews. Be it incoherence or treason, Wrangel deserved the same fate as Denikin and he got it.

  Boris Brasol

  Real, Fate, Order

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• In France, history is paralyzing.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  "Fashion Spotlight: Jean Paul Gaultier" by Anne Slowey, www.elle.com. January 21, 2010.

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• People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Thinking, People, Black

  Interview with Celia Walden, fashion.telegraph.co.uk. December 8, 2010.

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• I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

  Josephine Baker

  Land, Democracy, Far Away

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