All Quotes

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
‐‐ Michael Korda

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
‐‐ John Mortimer

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.
‐‐ Kate Bush

The freedoms that people have that flow from all civic institutions fundamentally come from the success of a market system.
‐‐ Lee R. Raymond

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
‐‐ Robert Benchley

The freer that women become, the freer men will be. Because when you enslave someone, you are enslaved.
‐‐ Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
‐‐ Matthew Arnold

The freeways create economic and racial borders in Los Angeles. South of Interstate 10 is one group of people, west of the 10 another, and south of the 405 North yet another.
‐‐ Mark Bradford

The freeways of America are like giant veins twisting and turning, rushing life from one zone to the next. The landscape is a giant body just lying there feeling the rumble.
‐‐ Rhys Darby

The French and the British are such good enemies that they can't resist being friends.
‐‐ Peter Ustinov

The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite.
‐‐ Michael Servetus

The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
‐‐ Edmund White

The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

The French are so into themselves that they don't even notice you.
‐‐ Bono

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.
‐‐ Stendhal

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.
‐‐ Maurice Chevalier

The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.'
‐‐ Alain Juppe

The French are very individualistic.
‐‐ Eric Rohmer

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
‐‐ Ahmed Ben Bella

The French complain of everything, and always.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

The French cook; we open tins.
‐‐ John Galsworthy

The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
‐‐ Eric Rohmer

The French fry did not become America's most popular vegetable until industry took over the jobs of washing, peeling, cutting, and frying the potatoes - and cleaning up the mess.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

The French had an obvious financial interest in Iraq. That's been documented. They were involved financially in Iraq and in some cases, I think with weapons of mass destruction.
‐‐ Curt Weldon

The French have a very deep knowledge of Islam in many areas, and we can exchange views.
‐‐ Tony Tan

The French have got taste.
‐‐ Vivienne Westwood

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
‐‐ Jean-Jacques Annaud

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.
‐‐ Theodore Zeldin

The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone.
‐‐ Eric Cantona

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.
‐‐ Simon Baker

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.
‐‐ Robert Crumb

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.
‐‐ Gilbert White

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
‐‐ E. V. Lucas

The French no longer respect their language, because they no longer love themselves, and, no longer loving themselves, they no longer love what was the instrument of their glory - their language.
‐‐ Maurice Druon

The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.'
‐‐ Robert Wilson

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.
‐‐ Nicolas Sarkozy

The French, perhaps more than any other nation, cherish the memory of their dead by ornamenting their places of sepulture with the finest flowers, often renewing the garlands and replacing such plants as decay with vigorous and costly ones.
‐‐ Dorothea Dix

The French press can be very harsh, and the one thing they can't bear is multi-tasking. They despise it to the highest degree, so from the age of five I've been taught that if I did two things at the same time, it meant I didn't know how to do one. It's an obsession that they have.
‐‐ Lou Doillon

The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.
‐‐ Pankaj Mishra

The French Revolution ends slavery unilaterally. And it does so at this moment when the British, the Spanish, the Portuguese and the Americans - all of the other major powers - keep slavery. And the fact is that it's almost bankrupting the French Colonial Empire.
‐‐ Tom Reiss

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
‐‐ John Corigliano

The French revolution taught us the rights of man.
‐‐ Thomas Sankara

The French Revolution was a kind of 21st-century moment in the heart of the 18th century - and Alex Dumas, outstanding though he was, could never have risen the way he did if not for that. The French Revolution was the American Revolution on steroids.
‐‐ Tom Reiss

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.
‐‐ John Marshall

The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'
‐‐ Edward Herrmann

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.
‐‐ Billy Higgins

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville