#french

If it's not American, the French won't go see it. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#french #go #see #won

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth. ↗

— Stendhal

#earth #events #french #least #most

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years. ↗

— Stendhal

#distance #fifty #french #imitate #russians

I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#directing #french #had #hard #hard time

The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job. ↗

— William Sanderson

#because #consistent #delusion #french #grandeur

Je pensais de meme que notre jeunesse etait finie et le bonheur manqué. I thought too that our youth was over and we had failed to find happiness. ↗

— Alain-Fournier

#dejection #despair #french #melancholy #youth-is-temporary

Certaines choses que Napoléon dit des femmes, plusieurs discussiions sur le mérite des romans à la mode sous son règne lui donnèrent alors, pour la première fois, quelques idées que tout autre jeune home de son age aurait eues depuis longtemps. ↗

— Stendhal

#ideas #men #passion #romanticism #sex

The French approach to food is characteristic; they bring to their consideration of the table the same appreciation, respect, intelligence and lively interest that they have for the other arts, for painting, for literature, and for the theatre. We foreigners living in France respect and appreciate this point of view but deplore their too strict observance of a tradition which will not admit the slightest deviation in a seasoning or the suppression of a single ingredient. Restrictions aroused our American ingenuity, we found combinations and replacements which pointed in new directions and created a fresh and absorbing interest in everything pertaining to the kitchen. ↗

— Alice B. Toklas

#art

Je suis à toi. ↗

— Christina Lauren

#french #i-m-yours #beauty

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

— David Amram

#five #french #french horn #horn #issue