French Exit Quotes

#1. No.' She took my hand. 'Let's make a French exit.' 'What's a French exit?' 'It's when you leave without saying goodbye.' 'I've never heard that before.' A French exit; no thank you for having me, no I've had a lovely time. To just walk away, cool and aloof. I wondered if I could.

David Nicholls

#2. He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.

Elena Ferrante

#3. As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

Paul Johnson

#4. I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great in a kind of realistic normal story without throwing objects to the camera, but using the 3D on the emotions in an intimate story.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#5. True freedom exists beyond the bounds of our faculty of reason because rational beings can only reason practical freedoms even if first conceived in theory or as an idea.

Adam Kovacevic

#6. Never wrestle with pigs for the pigs remain clueless and you end up muddy.

Orrin Woodward

#7. My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business.

Frederick W. Smith

#8. 'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end.

Rob Sheffield

#9. A lack of education fertilizes the weeds of folly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. The theory of evolution is impossible. At base, in spirit of appearances, no one any longer believes in it ... Evolution is a kind of dogma which the priests no longer believe, but which they maintain for their people.

Paul Lemoine

#11. Fortitude is fortune.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.

Napoleon Hill

#13. The prospect of one day being hauled out of the canal by yet another old enemy was hard for France to swallow, even more so when British and French defence specialists discussed their exit strategy in case of an overwhelming Soviet attack, and the Brits proposed a massive evacuation via Dunkirk.

Stephen Clarke

#14. We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.

Matthew Henry

#15. I should take his kisses with me and go. But with a seeping, resolute calm, I decide to keep him. I am not losing these Wednesdays, even if I can't have anything else.

Mary Ann Rivers