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Quotes by French Authors
"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins."
"At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match."
"Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing."
"I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing."
"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it."
"Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way."
"Les naturels sanguinaires à l'endroit des bêtes, témoignent une propension naturelle à la cruauté."
"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."
"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."
"When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds " like those horses that are equally good for saddle and carriage, the worst kind, that can neither jump a ditch nor pull a plow."
"He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs for one another."
"On days when it was too hot, they did not leave their room. The dazzling brilliance from outside plastered bars of light between the slats of the blinds. Not a sound in the village. Down below, on the sidewalk, no one. This spreading silence increased the tranquility of things. In the distance, the caulkers' hammers tamped the hulls, and a heavy breeze brought the smell of tar."
"Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment."
"The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself."
"Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth."
"The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market."
"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice."
"It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men."
"Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans."
"The match against Brazil was football at its best. Both sides had opportunities to win the game."
"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."
"The whole problem of the sound-work is distancing oneself from the dramatic."
"If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity."
"The last thing, and the only one that you cannot physically train for, is the psychological preparation."
"What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward."
"As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior."
"Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way."
"When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg."
"Polytechnique is a school whose multidisciplinary, very high scientific level curriculum is invaluable."
"The "Western" is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself."
"I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs."
"It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason."
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