France Quote by Robert A. Heinlein Download Open image ““Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money.”” — Robert A. Heinlein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare France Humour Money Risque Spending money
“The French, I knew, were well ahead in this area, constructing gigantic palaces in the centre of cities which offer every luxury to travellers… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“And what happens doesn't happen in words. I want to smother all the French beaches I'll never see. Imagine stalking elk through the damp… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“in Paris of any substance over the last months, and they’re united in basic disinterest.” He smiled wryly. “Money’s none so plentiful that anyone… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Some good things did come out of France, but the place has become unbearably Gaulish don’t you think?” — Peter Murphy Copy Share Image
“Just think, she said to herself. I could be living on the Right Bank. I could be married to a senior clerk at the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I had come to the conclusion that I must really be French, only no one had ever informed me of this fact. I loved… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
“You will do well to take advantage of Madame's short residence to get up your French a little... You will be glad of this,… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
“Food, a French man told me once, is the first wealth. Grow it right, and you feel insanely rich, no matter what you own.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What a morning," Louis would say as they walked the rocky, dry hills above their rented chateau just outside Marseilles. "I want to take… — Nancy Horan 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 even when… — Mark Greenside Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Nor would anybody suspect. If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you feed honest figures into a computer,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I tried to dig out of the computer a call directory for Luna. But it was still sulking. I could not get it to… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“nor ground control was something of a step back for them. Furthermore, having reached France,” — James Holland Copy Share Image
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know… — Mathieu Kassovitz Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know… — Fernando Alonso Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't… — Terry Zwigoff 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 because she… — Bert Stern Copy Share Image