Travel French Quotes

#1. The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.

Fred Allen

#2. HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.

Bertrand Russell

#3. There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years
the language of the soul, told through the eye.

Lydia Sigourney

#4. We worked together with Wes Anderson writing a couple more movies together: Rushmore [1998] and Tenenbaums.

Owen Wilson

#5. The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless.

Tahir Shah

#6. Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

David Brinkley

#7. Albert Einstein was never clear if he believed in time travel, but had he raised a toddler, he certainly would have.

Michael R. French

#8. The new French theme park based on Napoleon is named Napoleon's Bivouac, and will honor Napoleon with rides, battle reenactments, and the brutal March on Moscow ride. That's a walk-in freezer you stand in for 18 months while you try to eat a dead horse.

Peter Sagal

#9. Paris was all so ... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Children, really quite small children, speaking fluent French!

David Nicholls

#10. Even disasters
there are always disasters when you travel
can be turned into adventures.

Marilyn French

#11. In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

Marlene Dietrich

#12. Before I die I want to have kids. Live in London. Own a pet giraffe. Skydive. Divide by zero. Play the piano. Speak French. Write a book. Travel to a different planet. Be a better dad than mine was. Feel good about myself. Go to New York City. Know equality. Live.

Jennifer Niven

#13. Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

Robert Orben

#14. When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

Agnes Repplier

#15. Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their native language, and while they writhed, we impaled them, we peppered them, we scarified them, with their own vile verbs and participles.

Mark Twain

#16. I wonder if the folks at Christian books will fire you when they find out about your devil powers-John Gramm

Natasha Larry

#17. The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.

Ernest Renan

#18. The last time I'd spoken French I was twelve years old; before I reached my thirteenth birthday the teacher had correctly steered me into woodwork classes.

Craig Briggs

#19. I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.

Mandy Moore

#20. [Should] Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.

George W. Bush

#21. I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural ... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

Andy Stern

#22. In the mountains, travelers were reduced to the speed of men on foot. Here, the ancient English sense of journey, 'a day's travel' (French journee), meant the same as the Old Persian word farsang, 'the distance a man could travel on foot in a day,' and the territory was in effect ungovernable.

Rory Stewart

#23. The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.

Peggy Kopman-Owens

#24. Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.

Cennino Cennini

#25. There was a clown in the stormdrain.

Stephen King

#26. I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#27. There was no opiate like a French pillow.

David McCullough

#28. I was supposed to stay for 3 months. But I think I always knew I would stay a little longer, despite the crazy Frenchies. Or maybe because of them.

Vicki Lesage