Quotes About France

For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

THE LITTLE HOUSE AT CROIX-ROUSSE Georges Simenon

In the summer of 2009, a heat wave across France led to a shortage in cooling waters, forcing one-third of the nuclear power plants in the country to shut down.

I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.

I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

My strongest audiences are in Germany and France - they stuck with me through my dark days in the '70s.

'Chocolat' was a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot - a sort of childhood that made me different when I was a student in France.

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.

Even though I studied in New York and I know the American system, I come from France where I learned that with movies in France where the director is king. There's no such thing as a studio edit. It's the director's cut, period.

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

To be a nutritionist in France, you must be a doctor, seven years studies, and then three more years in nutrition.

There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it was sold to MGM. When the film was a success, MGM decided to do a television series based on the movie.

I am opposed to a multicultural France. I think that those who have a different culture and who arrive in France have to submit themselves to French culture.

I consider that France does not have to submit to the calendar of the United States, so I want France to leave the integrated command of NATO.

The judicial system of Rwanda is not subordinate to France or France's interests.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads.

In a pharmacy toothpaste with a swastika. A mood of fear such as must have existed in France under the Jacobins. No one fears for their lives yet--but for bread and freedom.

France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.

There's a very apt saying in show business: "If you don't go over budget in Paris, you're either very rich or very sick. "

The French king had three times as many subjects, and also triple the resources; the Spanish king possessed six times as many subjects, and five times the revenue.

Only in the nineteenth century did the English throne renounce its claim to the French crown.

roast lamb from Sisteron, "the best lamb in France

As an appetizer, we would consult the oracular books, and came to depend more and more on the Gault-Millau guide. The Michelin is invaluable, and nobody should travel through France without it, but it is confined to the bare bones of prices and grades and specialities. Gault-Millau gives you the flesh as well. It will tell you about the chef—if he's young, where he was trained; if he's established, whether he's resting on his past success or still trying hard.