Classic French Sayings

#1. The most classic French dessert around the holidays is the Christmas log, with butter cream. Two flavors. Chocolate and coconut. My first job in the kitchen when I was a boy was to make these Christmas logs.

Alain Ducasse

#2. Here's the irony in what I do: When I go out to eat, I like classic French food. I like amazing Japanese food that has such a history that it goes back hundreds of years. And I also like really innovative food as well.

Grant Achatz

#3. Life is a book of changes. It should be read only to understand how it works. You can't help the changes in life; they must come whether they are good or bad because the good must follow the bad and the bad must follow the good. T

Yogi Bhajan

#4. Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.

Daniel Johns

#5. on top of the world! He looked over the balcony at the crowd dancing to

Kiki Shanique

#6. If there is a void in your life then you will never fill it with cash!

Stephen Richards

#7. Notwithstanding the prevalent notion that the French poets are the sympathetic heirs of classic culture, it appears to me that they are not so imbued with the true classic spirit, art, and mythology as some of our English poets, notably Keats and Shelley.

William Shakespeare

#8. The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.

Edmund White

#9. Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special.

Mike Tyson

#10. The French don't know how to cook breakfast.

Prince Philip

#11. My humanity is a constant self-overcoming.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Today, as in Paul's day, the preaching of Christ is done both out of love for the Lord and also out of contention and insincerity.

Paul Silway

#13. Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end - tonight's moon

Matsuo Basho

#14. Anna: You really think he likes me?
Rashmi: Anna. He teases you all the time. It's classic boy-pulling-girl's-pigtail syndrome. And whenever anyone else even remotely does it, he always takes your side and tells them to shove it.

Stephanie Perkins

#15. French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.

Mireille Guiliano

#16. Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them up to a light that discovers those latent flaws which would probably have lain concealed in the gloom of unagitated abstraction.

William Melmoth

#17. Lastly, the ashes left behind,
May daily show to move the mind,
That to ashes and dust return we must:
Then think, and drink tobacco.

George Wither

#18. War is a grim, cruel business, a business justified only as a means of sustaining the forces of good against those of evil.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#19. Every man needs a good, solid watch. My favorite watch is the Presidential Rolex. I own many watches, but this one is usually the one on my wrist. I buy mine in the Diamond District in New York City. Classic.

French Montana

#20. History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

John F. Kennedy

#21. I love fashion because it can change to suit your mood. I'm very drawn to classic silhouettes, menswear-inspired pieces, and anything that feels a little French. I'm also inspired by Brit girl style.

Sophia Bush

#22. It seemed that in Paris you could discuss classic literature or architecture or great music with everyone from the garbage collector to the mayor.

Julia Child

#23. If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

Alfred Brendel

#24. In each restaurant, I develop a different culinary sensibility. In Paris, I'm more classic, because that's what customers like. In Monaco, it's classic Mediterranean haute cuisine. In London, it's a contemporary French restaurant that I've developed with a U.K. influence and my French know-how.

Alain Ducasse