#france

I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France. ↗

— John Tesh

#covering #europe #events #france #i

We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#better #crisis #difficult #duty #end

I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#especially #france #get #i #i think

I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#another #australia #britain #california #connects

We made it known that we were trying to show the reality of France. People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness. ↗

— Mathieu Kassovitz

#darkness #france #got #hate #known

I dare say it is rather hard to be a rat,” she mused. “Nobody likes you. People jump and run away and scream out: ‘Oh, a horrid rat!’ I shouldn’t like people to scream and jump and say: ‘Oh, a horrid Sara!’ the moment they saw me, and set traps for me, and pretend they were dinner. It’s so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said: ‘Wouldn’t you rather be a sparrow? ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#choice #frances-hodgson-burnett #life #life

Hope is a most beautiful drug. ↗

— Jeremy Mercer

#paris #poets #writers #beauty

If debates about beauty in nineteenth-century France were fierce, that was because beauty was seen to matter. This was a world of political revolutions, of social reformism, of belief in progress and human perfectibility. Why was it that beauty mattered so much in such a world?. ↗

— Elizabeth Prettejohn

#beauty #france #art

It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#saving-francesca #will-trombal #change

But also within her figure and enclosed within the aura of her figure is the fact that her body was the medium through which she transubstantiated or transfigured ordinary time into actual spirit and because of this there is the feeling she is constantly leaping to her death inside me, as though my spinal column had become the shaft between Manhattan buildings where my own figure, mine too, has always been leaping and falling and dying and has always wanted to smash itself to atoms in this impossible world, and I am confident this feeling and this figure dying forever within me is also beyond common and that maybe you person reading this now have felt or do have such a woman or such a figure leaping to her death inside you ↗

— Ariana Reines

#death