France Quotes - Page 26

• I consider myself a 'local' actor in France. I started out in France, I went to drama school in France and the French film community was very welcoming to me when I was a young actress.

  Diane Kruger

  Drama, School, Community

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• In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Thinking, People, Skinny

  "Karl Lagerfeld Defends Fur, Skinny People". The Telegraph Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2009.

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• Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Want, Foreigners

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• There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Girl, England, Dangerous

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• Once I started on 'Frances' I discovered it was literally a bottomless well. It devastated me to maintain that for eighteen weeks, to be immersed in this state of rage for twelve to eighteen hours a day. It spilled all over, into other areas of my life.

  Jessica Lange

  Twelve, Rage, Week

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• In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.

  Christian Louboutin

  Lunch, Revolution, Privilege

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• 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Movie, Dirty

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• The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.

  John Moody

  Lakes, United States, Borders

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Numbers, Cuisine, Spain

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• There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

  Ehud Olmert

  Country, Islamic, Russia

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• I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this guy playing in an old tuxedo. He was all disheveled, with a whisky glass on the piano. I thought that was the coolest thing. So what's happened to me with 'Twilight' isn't really what I'd planned.

  Robert Pattinson

  Twilight, Holiday, Glasses

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• A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.

  Joel Robuchon

  Children, Kids, Years

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• I call Iran home because no matter how long I live in France, and despite the fact that I feel also French after all these years, to me the word 'home' has only one meaning: Iran. I suppose it's that way for everyone: Home is the place where one is born and raised.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Home, Iran, Years

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• In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.

  Lytton Strachey

  Spain, Literature, England

  Lytton Strachey (1912). “Landmarks in French Literature”

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• In terms of productivity - that is, how much a worker produces in an hour - there's little difference between the U.S., France, and Germany. But since more people work in America, and since they work so many more hours, Americans create more wealth.

  James Surowiecki

  Differences, America, People

  "No Work and No Play". www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2005.

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• It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Style, Culture, Taste

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• I can't move back to England. My home is in France now. I'd love to but I can't. My family's all there now.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Moving, Home, England

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• I hope to continue my friendship with France and its filmmakers for many years to come.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Years, Filmmaker, My Friendship

  "Harvey Weinstein, Legion D’Honneur 2012 Recipient: Producer Awarded France’s Highest Honor", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2012.

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• I was raised Catholic. Not just a little bit Catholic, like my wife, Catherine. When she was young, many Catholics in France already barely went to church, except for the big three: baptism, marriage, and funeral. And only the middle one was by choice.

  Frans de Waal

  Wife, Choices, Funeral

  Frans de Waal (2013). “The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Before the Second World War, L'Oreal in France was an active supporter of the French fascists. The cosmetic group's founder Eugene Schueller was an active member of the 'Cagoule' group, committed to the violent overthrow of the Third Republic, and hosted meetings at Oreal headquarters.

  Geoff Mulgan

  War, Groups, World

  "Because you're worth it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2006.

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• Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people who went on to become part of the Fascist experience: (1) shift power directly to economic and social interest groups; (2) push entrepreneurial initiative in areas normally reserved for public bodies; (3) obliterate the boundaries between public and private interest -- that is, challenge the idea of the public interest. This sounds like the official program of most contemporary Western governments.

  John Ralston Saul

  Ideas, Government, People

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of New Mexico. It was like a great violet velvet mantle thrown down in the sun; all the shades that the dyers and weavers of Italy and France strove for through centuries, the violet that is full of rose colour and is yet not lavender; the blue that becomes almost pink and then retreats again into sea-dark purple—the true Episcopal colour and countless variations of it.

  Willa Cather

  Flower, Dark, Sea

  Willa Cather (1999). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.279, U of Nebraska Press

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• A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like "France" or "England," to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong.

  Aldous Huxley

  Country, Names, Long

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• Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance To escape from the perilous pants eating plants But your pants are safe, you’re a fortunate guy You ought to be shouting how lucky am I

  Dr. Seuss

  Grateful, Average, Guy

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• Who is Alice?" asked mother. "Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday. So I am singing Happy Thursday to her." - Frances the badger

  Russell Hoban

  Mother, Singing, Doe

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