French Legion Quotes

#1. There's nothin' like Christian feelin's for upsettin' a man's domestic comfort.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#2. A brilliant white light beat pitilessly down, like the fierce desert sun at midday on the French Foreign Legion; the glittering floor dazzled the eye with the cruel desert glare. We walked slowly through the cereals.

Helen DeWitt

#3. Maybe I was a bit harsh on some people. But I was harshest on myself, really.

Marc Almond

#4. Can you hyperventilate a little quieter?" he whispered.

Brynn Kelly

#5. My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic. I rebelled, not but because of a religious or repressive childhood. I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#6. Gunfire cracked around them.
"Just warning shots," he yelled.
"How do you know?"
"We're not dead.

Brynn Kelly

#7. After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#8. Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

William James

#9. The live show is different from the album. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed.

Sandra Bernhard

#10. So much depends upon this observer of the universe

John Green

#11. There are many things in my life I want to forget. But this I intend to remember.

Brynn Kelly

#12. Look at him. The face of a bad angel and eyes like the night sky in Hell. He's very pretty, and vampires like that. I can't say I mind either.

Cassandra Clare

#13. No one is destined for greatness. Everyone is just destined to express the greatness that already exists within.

Aunna Pourang

#14. You promised me a kiss," she whispered.
"A rash comment in the heat of the moment." His face was so close she could feel electricity snapping between them.
"I think I'm still feeling that heat."
She tilted her hips. He groaned. It was enough. His mouth captured hers.

Brynn Kelly

#15. Sometimes things happen in life, sometimes they don't. Don't get me wrong: I have no regrets - if I could turn the clock back 10 or 20 years, I wouldn't want to fundamentally change the path my life has taken.

Nicola Sturgeon

#16. It's your hero complex, isn't it? You should see someone about that."
"Right after I get my head examined.

Brynn Kelly

#17. I'm quite capable of taking responsibility for my own death.

Brynn Kelly

#18. For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.

Florence King

#19. As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight.

Jonathan Winters

#20. I'm a nice middle class public schoolboy who underachieved and wasn't going anywhere fast. I didn't get any GCSEs or A-levels. But everyone was like: "Please, will you do something?" And I was thinking: "Well, I kind of like the idea of joining the French Foreign Legion."

Tom Hardy

#21. Life isn't a promise; it's a present

Darrius Garrett

#22. The woman raked her gaze up his body as if checking out livestock. As she reached his face, her kohl-rimmed brown eyes lit with a challenge. "I am the one you know as Hamid Nabil Hassan. The most wanted man in the world.

Brynn Kelly

#23. I was brought up with old-fashioned values. I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend until I finished school. I wasn't allowed to wear make-up: the nuns would scrub your face if they saw it.

Imelda May

#24. Read it to me."
"Seriously?" he said quietly. "You want me to read you poetry? Like saving your life ten times wasn't enough?

Brynn Kelly

#25. When you look out the window of a spaceship, you see entire countries, vast swaths of continents. One turn of the head covers what once took thousands of years to traverse at ground level.

Chris Hadfield

#26. I came here because the city has a tradition and is a very respected food city.

Emeril Lagasse