I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings.

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

The French league is a bit below the English. But I think life in Paris is more beautiful.

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding.

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

I do like potato chips, French fries and Barney's burgers in L.A. with seasoned curly fries.

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.

The best designers are French - we all know that. That's a fact, I'm not inventing anything.

For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

I'm an avid cook. Brazilian, some Italian, a little French. And I often throw dinner parties.

I speak three other languages - Serbian, French, and Italian - but typically read in English.

Hey, I used to eat at McDonald's: I liked the taste of the food, especially the French fries.

Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.

Certain foods no longer agree with me. If I eat French fries, I might feel sick to my stomach.

Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie.

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.

Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest.

I like spaghetti bolognese, I like baked beans on toast. I hate French food. I hate fancy food.

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.

'Deracine' is French for uprooting, or someone who's been displaced from their natural environment.

I'm quite into the French way - simple elegance with just a suggestion of sexiness, nothing vulgar.

I'm not the bake-sale-mom type - though once in a while, I'll make challah French toast for my sons.

There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.

What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning.

I've never really spoken French. I didn't do French lessons at school, so I'm starting from scratch.

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

I never thought that I would have to play an Indian, well half French, but an Indian woman in my life.

My mother is from Paris, so she was quite a fashion plate. I always had that French influence at home.

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

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