Top 17 Bernard Pivot Quotes
#2. You get the feeling that many of my guests feel that the French language gives them entry into a more cultivated, more intelligent world, more highly civilised too, with rules.
Bernard Pivot
#3. I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under.
Henry L. Stimson
#4. I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.
Kirsten Dunst
#5. French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.
Bernard Pivot
#6. It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original.
Bernard Pivot
#7. The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
Bernard Pivot
#8. I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.
Bernard Pivot
#9. This programme would only really make sense and work properly if it was also broadcast on France's international television channel TV5. So I ended up with a double production, on France 2 and TV5.
Bernard Pivot
#12. The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment.
Dalai Lama
#13. People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.
Bernard Pivot
#14. All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.
Bernard Pivot
#15. The most dangerous person is the fearful; he is the most to be feared.
Ludwig Borne
#16. They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties.
Bernard Pivot
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