French Writers Quotes

#1. But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#2. The Lord is anxious to lead us to the safety of higher ground, away from the path of physical and spiritual danger. His upward path will require us to climb.

Henry B. Eyring

#3. I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.
Well, let's talk Algeria then. Let's talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.

Rawi Hage

#4. She'd heard people talk about electricity and butterflies; being with Royce was like a lightning storm and hummingbirds.

Cindi Madsen

#5. Majesty," Dockson said, "we've already worked on that problem for a bit." "Oh?" Elend asked,

Brandon Sanderson

#6. In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics.

Francis Bacon

#7. The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting points on thought.

Salman Rushdie

#8. If you have a warm and caring heart, you're loved ones will ensure you never depart. For long after you've turned that final page you'll still be right there on center stage.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#9. If I had a project that I had auditioned for and I was getting close to getting it, I didn't want to tell anybody because I thought then I wouldn't get it, but in reality that really had no bearing on whether or not I got a part.

Amy Adams

#10. The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.

Peter Mayle

#11. I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed the way I think is the French philosopher, Blaise Pascal.

Andrea Bocelli

#12. That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

Allan Lokos

#13. The highest laws of the land (America) are not only the constitution and constitutional laws, but also contracts.

Hannah

#14. And then without any signal or obvious sign of tansformation, the beach was suddenly alight with fiery stones.

Meg Rosoff

#15. I thought serious writers smoked like French imports or something.

Jake Irons

#16. German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

Pankaj Mishra

#17. They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.

Brett Ratner