Oh some are fond of Spanish wine, and some are fond of French.
What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually embodies the spirit of America.
If I were not French I would choose to be - Scotch.
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.
My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.
There's something Vichy about the French.
The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.
These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.
I'm a salty, greasy girl. I give every french fry a fair chance. Could you just lay some lard in my belly?
Every woman in America has a French dream in her head, especially a Parisian one.
I want my room to smell just like this. " Iggy inhaled deeply as the scents flame-broiled burgers and hot french fries wafted around us. 'it would be an improvement. ' I agreed.
When I was a young man, my friends and I and all of us in New York were very influenced by French cinema. French cinema played an enormous influence on those of us who wanted to be filmmakers.
Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action.
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.
The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive.
We take it into account from the very beginning and try to steer couples toward items that lend themselves to those circumstances. Sometimes we have to steer a little more forcefully - you can't fry French fries in the New York Public Library.
I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French. . . I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.
If God exists, there's no way he's French