French Word Quotes
10 quotes by 10 authors
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We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.…
— Richard Dawkins
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The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's…
— Rollo May
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The way I would describe a pictorial is that it is a picture that makes everybody say ‘Aaaaah,’ with five vowels when they see it.…
— Alfred Eisenstaedt
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I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it…
— Lawrence Block
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There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems…
— Cornelia Otis Skinner
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Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence . Art is not a brassiere. At least, not…
— Julian Barnes
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Approfondement is a French word that means 'playing easily in the deep.'
— Tom Robbins
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The future science of government should be called 'la cybernétique' (1843) Coining the French word to mean 'the art of governing,' from the Greek (Kybernetes…
— Andre-Marie Ampere
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There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war.
— Golda Meir
Who Wrote These French Word Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 10 French Word Quotes as follows: