One thing I like about the United States, and I kind of miss about the United States, is there's an election coming… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Most feminists in France came to feminism after '68 as a result of the hypocrisy they experienced in leftist movements. In these… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Why is it that they can only come up with one model of spaceship? You would assume such intelligent creatures could, once… — Cuthbert Soup Copy Share Image
“...all the men in the photograph wear puttees. All the men in the picture are bound, trying to keep themselves together. That… — Elena Mauli Shapiro Copy Share Image
In France today, people no longer eat as much heavy food and fat as they did 15 or 20 years ago. These… — Joel Robuchon Copy Share Image
I'm opposed to wearing headscarves in public places. That's not France. There's something I just don't understand: the people who come to… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every… — Omar Sy Copy Share Image
I find all food irresistible. I have friends who live in the mountains in France. One of them sells vegetables, and to… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
What is true, and I think that we can't deny it, is that some of the same concerns about globalization, about technology,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is something in the quality of the French mind to which I have always felt a reluctant kinship. They are the… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Summing it Up..."Where's a good place for dinner?" I asked. "There's the Brasserie Lipp on the Avenue St. Germaine," she said, "or… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have been surveyed… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Basically [United States and France] said "We will use nuclear weapons whenever it suits our purposes to do so." So this expansion… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
English is, from my point of view as an Americanist, an ethnicity. And English literature should be studied in Comparative Literature. And… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
“Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east.… — Dean Acheson Copy Share Image
I think that both Russia and other international actors, including those who are more actively engaged in the resolution of the Ukrainian… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
[State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Usually in France we prefer to say bad things about the Nouvelle Vague, but I'm always impressed with its freedom and the… — Arnaud Desplechin Copy Share Image
I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet,… — Benjamin Millepied Copy Share Image
Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution...[they] really stem from a mixture of Judaism and Christianity...[we English] had 1688, our… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Wait until France gets a hard shot in the nose. Wait until France reacts with some nasty work. They'll get a golf-clap… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Still we did not expect to be without rubs and difficulties; and we have had them. First the detention of Western posts:… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
France is deeply upset to learn of the monstrous attacks that have just struck the United States… In these terrible circumstances, all… — Jacques Chirac Copy Share Image
“He mused on this village of his, which had sprung up in this place, amid the stones, like the gnarled undergrowth of… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected. I was very lucky… — Bert Stern Copy Share Image
My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
And I have tried to forget him, I have tried to convince myself that it was just one of those things, but… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the new iPhone. I bought it and kept trying to use it in France. "Siri, what is a good… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more… — Edouard Daladier Copy Share Image
France isn't just any country in Europe, and its president is not an ordinary leader in the world. Sometimes directing or leading… — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
Europeans, like some Americans, drive on the right side of the road, except in England, where they drive on both sides of… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
When you go to that other country you realize that in France and in England, you don't ask somebody what they do… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image