Strange French Sayings

#1. Graves leaned forward, eyeing me. "Hey, Dru. You were french-kissing a winged snake. creeptastic."
"I was stealing her breath, imbecile. go get a towel." christophe shoved him, and graves shoved back.

Lili St. Crow

#2. The civilities of the great are never thrown away.

Samuel Johnson

#3. If the day ever comes when you're tempted to sell me out, remember this, Bronn - I'll match their price, whatever it is. I like living.

George R R Martin

#4. Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as, oh, the French.

Will Shetterly

#5. I stayed because running seemed too strange and too complicated. All I knew was how to fall back, find a patch of solid ground, and then dig my heels in and fight to start over.

Tana French

#6. Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.

Neil Armstrong

#7. The theatre is one of those muscles - if you don't exercise it, it becomes a strange and truly fearful place.

Dawn French

#8. Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation.

Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

#9. French people are strange about America, I think.

Michel Hazanavicius

#10. We have to have a warrior mindset and be engaged at all times. If we are going to move mountains, we cannot be pitiful and powerful at the same time.

Sandra M. Michelle

#11. But when a person's so stuck in their own hole of darkness - it hurts like hell when someone shines a light on them. Your eyes have to adjust, and let's just say it isn't a pleasant experience; it's why people stay there.

Rachel Van Dyken

#12. Smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#13. Still the strange ships glittered and shone, and this led to some discussion as to what they might be made of. The Admiral thought perhaps iron or steel. (Metal ships indeed! The French are, as I have often supposed, a very whimsical nation.)

Susanna Clarke

#14. If bliss are a type of potato, then ignorance can be french-fried

Josh Stern

#15. I've always had a strange acting life. I'm the daughter of a director, and a very French, typical director who fell in love with every single one of his actresses. And that's also something that's kind of normal in the acting business, because everything is based on desire, one way or the other.

Lou Doillon

#16. Ask yourself constantly, "What is the right thing to do?" Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.

Confucius

#17. It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in them does naturally have to have two civilizations. They have to have the civilization that makes them and the civilization that has nothing to do with them.

Gertrude Stein

#18. It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

Marilyn French

#19. The joy of the new, hip, happening, double-espresso Dublin is that you can blame any strange mood on coffee deprivation. This never worked in the era of tea, at least not at the same level of street cred.

Tana French

#20. An Englishman was reflecting on the different words that people use for fish. 'Isn't it strange,' he said, 'that the French say le poisson, the Spanish say el pescado, and the English call it fish - which is what it is.'

Alexander McCall Smith

#21. I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain, and their pancake is crepe. Pain and poison and crap. That's what they have every day.

Xiaolu Guo

#22. Play The Game or Get Played.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#23. Humility is royalty without a crown.

Spencer W. Kimball

#24. All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that.

Paul Auster

#25. Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

Susanna Clarke

#26. Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all.
No judgment implied. Just an observation.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#27. You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.

Rod Serling