All Quotes

France is an old country that needs to wake up.
‐‐ Melanie Laurent

France is back.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.
‐‐ Francois Mitterrand

France is different from the U.S.A.'s El Dorado, American Dream image.
‐‐ Marine Le Pen

France is, for me, the country of happiness.
‐‐ Max von Sydow

France is no longer herself when she is folded in on herself, tormented by ignorance and intolerance. The country would plunge into decline if it refused to be itself, if it was afraid of the future, afraid of the world.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire

France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
‐‐ Billy Wilder

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden... something of which I am not proud.
‐‐ Nicolas Sarkozy

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
‐‐ Gustave Courbet

France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
‐‐ Barbara Cartland

France is very welcoming to foreign writers.
‐‐ Israel Horovitz

France isn't just any country in Europe, and its president is not an ordinary leader in the world. Sometimes directing or leading the way is not enough, he has to initiate policies, as Nicolas Sarkozy was able to demonstrate during his term.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

France, land of human rights and freedoms, was attacked on its own soil by a totalitarian ideology: Islamic fundamentalism. It is only by refusing to be in denial, by looking the enemy in the eye, that one can avoid conflating issues.
‐‐ Marine Le Pen

France loves American cinema because when an American remake is successful, it makes us money to produce more French films.
‐‐ Clotilde Hesme

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'
‐‐ Helen Rowland

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.
‐‐ Joachim du Bellay

France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors.
‐‐ Bernard Liautaud

France needs to improve training and education and the level of skills of its workforce.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.
‐‐ Nicolas Sarkozy

France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.
‐‐ Laurent Fabius

France wants Britain to remain in the E.U.; indeed, how can we imagine that friendly nation that is our ally and played a role on the international stage could be outside the E.U.?
‐‐ Francois Hollande

France was always a little scary to me. I had the preconception that France was a bit hoity-toity.
‐‐ April Bloomfield

France was an occupied country, a country that surrendered and was left without the right to choose.
‐‐ Jean-Marie Le Pen

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.
‐‐ Tift Merritt

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.
‐‐ Rich Lowry

France will insist on the need for updated and responsive institutions.
‐‐ Jacques Chirac

'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach

Frances McDormand is my favorite actor. I don't know if that's relevant. But she's a person who plays people. In other words, not everything has to be an over-the-top Broadway musical to get my attention, but it certainly helps.
‐‐ Julie Klausner

Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.
‐‐ Martha Stewart

Franchises are independently owned and operated businesses whose owners are responsible for their operations.
‐‐ Doug Ducey

Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

Franchising implies a financial arrangement, and I am always pleased to consider those.
‐‐ Geoff Ryman

Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
‐‐ David Lynch

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
‐‐ Al Pacino

Francis seems familiar because Catholics have already known him in the Vatican II priests who have been their pastors and sacramental ministers over the years since that council brought new life to an old church. Catholics have known him in the bishops and priests who brought the spirit of the council to their dioceses and parishes.
‐‐ Eugene Kennedy

Francis Underwood was entirely based on Richard III. When Michael Dobbs wrote 'House of Cards' in the original British series, Richard III is what he based the character on.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.
‐‐ Robert Adamson

Francisco Garcia could have been a high draft choice last year, probably in the 20s. He's the best wing player I've ever coached. But he's done it the right way. He knew he had to work on his body to become a good pro. When he goes into the pros, he'll be physically ready.
‐‐ Rick Pitino

Franco will bring the army from Castille. The ambassador will complain, causing a schism. Rivera's men will be part of the force. The great man will be denied entry to the gulf.
‐‐ Nostradamus

Francois Hollande is an intelligent man. I do not have a problem with him. The only thing is, he has never held office at the state level. Honestly, can you imagine Francois Hollande as president of France? Imagine it!
‐‐ Nicolas Sarkozy

Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests.
‐‐ Nicolas Sarkozy

Francois Hollande, the president of France, and Segolene Royal, a senior cabinet minister who once ran for that post herself, have an exceptionally complicated relationship. The two lived together for 25 years, raising four children over that time.
‐‐ Elaine Sciolino

Francois Truffaut was my godfather on 'Sugar Cane Alley.' He believed in me and in that story, and told everyone that it should be made.
‐‐ Euzhan Palcy

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Frank Baum knew at once he had written something special when he completed 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.'
‐‐ Michael Patrick Hearn

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.
‐‐ James Stewart

Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
‐‐ Manny Farber

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.
‐‐ Francis Ford Coppola