France is an idea, not a territory. They pay more attention to intellectuals here; they give artists and writers the feeling they're… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world ... that when one has the will one can succeed in… — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
In Paris, the greatest expression of personal satisfaction known to man is the smirk on the face of a male, highly pleased… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
In France, I am the fifth artisan to produce his own chocolate, and the others have been doing it for a long… — Alain Ducasse Copy Share Image
Americans don't like puns and plays on words, which is totally opposite in the comedy world to France or even Italy and… — Gad Elmaleh Copy Share Image
You can't get bored of winning. You can win 10 games in a row but you keep the same will to snatch… — Zinedine Zidane Copy Share Image
After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I think [John Adams] developed a much deeper suspicion of France and the other European powers than he had earlier. He lost… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
That's the luck we have with making films in Europe. It's still, in some ways, a virgin territory for a lot of… — Thomas Bidegain Copy Share Image
I'm looking forward to France, ... France has been really good to me the last three years, I've been in the final… — Andy Irons Copy Share Image
The United States is considered a puritanical society by many Western nations. For example, they can't believe we hassle public servants like… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty.… — E. Cobham Brewer Copy Share Image
As far as visual artists, I find inspiration in Henri Rousseau, who painted amazing, dream-like junglescapes without ever leaving France, and who… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers,… — James Wolfe Copy Share Image
Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century,… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
When we grew up, our family and kind of gaggle of cousins would go to the south of France for the summers.… — Dara Khosrowshahi Copy Share Image
You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler. — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing.… — Michael O'Leary Copy Share Image
France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
Mosques where sharia law prevails - they exist in France. Refusing to see that means that we do equate Islam with Islamic… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is… — Elizabeth Hawes Copy Share Image
I was born in New York, then I went to the UK, then I went to Brazil, then I went to France,… — John Elkann Copy Share Image
The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I'm very Belgian, and I will die Belgian. I just have my house in the north of France because I began my… — Cecile de France Copy Share Image
In Scotland there's just some of the best produce. I mean Argyll and Bute has a longer coastline than France. — Dave Myers Copy Share Image
But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again… — George Will Copy Share Image
“It's one of the things I like about being in France, it brings out the best in me, and always surprises me-and… — Mark Greenside Copy Share Image
The U.S., France, Germany and Canada have all responded to the financial crisis by boosting rather than cutting their science funding. The… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men. — Camille Desmoulins Copy Share Image
I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
This is going to be controversial, but I think that the croissants in America are better than the croissants in France. — Heidi Gardner Copy Share Image
“{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.” — Andrea Bouchaud Copy Share Image
In France, the matches are sometimes very tight, and so it is difficult to score. A free kick can unlock a game. — Angel Di Maria Copy Share Image
I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of my France-Ivory Coast background,… — Didier Drogba Copy Share Image