703 French Quotes for You to Enjoy

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French. Cecilia Bartoli

Beautiful Living Peer Composing Some Paris Songs He Also French Wrote Stopped

Growing up in Switzerland, you learn German pretty much from day one in school. You learn French and Italian as well. I took English as an extra language because I figured that was the language of the world. Cesaro

Rather than forcing local factories to clean up after themselves, Changzhou decided to outsource the job of managing its water supply to a French company named Veolia - one of a handful of corporate giants now scrambling to take over city water systems around the planet, especially in the often polluted and water-short developing world. Charles C. Mann

World Water Job Forcing Local Corporate Giants Systems City Rather Clean Clean Up Factories Take Outsource Supply Developing Developing World Over Named French Around Handful Up Than Managing Often Polluted After Decided Themselves Planet Company Now

French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that. Charlotte Rampling

Beautiful Women People Speak Made Society Way Sexuality Like French French People French Women Been Very Confident Move Them Bodies Aware

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her learn Spanish in three months. Cheech Marin

Wife Three Self-Defense Months Out Born Russia Russian French Learn Italian Five Spanish Languages Speaks English Her Watched

I've played American, Italian, Greek, French. I've been really lucky that way. Chita Rivera

Way French Been Italian Greek American Really Lucky Played

French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism. Christian Lacroix

Design Except French Exists Artificial Modernism Hardly

I never wanted to work in fashion. At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! And I was crazy for the Hollywood of the 1950s: Dietrich, Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones. They were my idea of glamour - and Sylvie Vartan, the French singer. Christian Louboutin

Work Fashion Crazy Age Design Never Glamour Idea French Singer Were Wanted Theater Hollywood Taylor Jennifer Elizabeth Elizabeth Taylor

Born in England during the First World War, of Belgian parents with partly German roots, I grew up in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp, where I had the benefit of a classical education taught in the two national languages of Belgium: French and Dutch. Christian de Duve

Education War World Parents First National Benefit City Born Classical Cosmopolitan Had French Partly First World First World War Up German Dutch Taught Where Grew Roots Languages England Belgium Two World War

When you move around a lot, there are little bits of you from everywhere. I mean, my father's French, and I speak French, and there's a kind of struggle in me that says, 'I'd like to be French.' But I've never been fully part of that culture, that role. Claire Messud

I'm a different person in French. I'm a different person in New York. I'm a different person in Canada. Claire Messud

New French Canada Person York New York Different Different Person

Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington. Claire Tomalin

School Father First French Because

And if you remember the other part of the context is we were then all deceived about the French position and told the French had said they'd veto any second resolution - which wasn't true, we now know. Clare Short

The people of Texas are rightly proud of their own, just like the French and the Italians, but visiting artists have often been given a shot in the history of art. Clifford Ross

Art History People Own Rightly Visiting Given Like French Proud Been Italians Texas Often Just Artists The History Of Shot

My wife is French, and so I get to see America through her eyes, which informs a lot of little moments. It means I can poke fun at very particular things about us. Colin Trevorrow

I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French. Cory Monteith

Speak French Canadian

I just always wanted to play guitar. I though that was, like, really dope. And then in high school, I learned how to play trumpet and, like, French horn because if the instrument's right in front of me, I'm going to just teach myself. Cuco

Myself Me Guitar School Dope Though High Horn High School Like French Instrument French Horn Learned Because Always How Trumpet Front Going Just Wanted Then Really Teach Play Right

I was really into old musicals. When I was seven or eight, my mum and dad would be like, 'How does she know who Ginger Rogers is?' Then, one weekend, Josephine Baker popped up in a French film called 'Zouzou,' and I was so stunned because she looked like me. Cush Jumbo

Me Old Seven Musicals Would Would-Be Ginger Weekend Like Know Stunned Baker Looked French She Because Does How Up Rogers Eight Then Really Who Dad Film Mum Mum And Dad

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French. Cyril Cusack

Theatre World National Something French Identity National Identity Irish Whether English

The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine? D. A. Pennebaker

Work You Together Recording First Some Recorder Wire Knots French Tied First Thing Edit Got Doing Came Cultural Off Up Very Square Did Wanted Center Little Cut Ever Thing Imagine Set

I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot. Daniel Boulud

Love Vegetables Meal Think Add Complete Takes Roast Longest Until French Make Fresh Then Shot Herbs Start

Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental. Daniel Boulud

Cooking Ancestral Tricky Also French Very Certainly Fundamental Technique Sauce

I am, 'Guardian' readers keep telling me, a xenophobe. Never mind that I speak French and Spanish, that I love Europe, that I've lived a high proportion of my life abroad. The fact that I oppose the political amalgamation of the European Union's states is ipso facto proof that I dislike foreigners. Daniel Hannan

Life Love Me Speak Political Guardian Mind My Life Oppose States Telling High Proof Abroad Fact Facto Proportion Never French Readers Am Foreigners Spanish Dislike Union Europe European Keep Lived

We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes. Daniel Kahneman

Life World Satisfied High Pretty Know French Up Very American Quite Different While Low Much Less Satisfaction Actually Champions

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