Tumbrils French Quotes

A valise without straps. A hole without a key. She had a German mouth, French ears, Russian ass. Cunt international. When the flag waved it was red all the way back to the throat. You entered on the Boulevard Jules-Ferry and came out at the Porte de la Villette. You dropped
your sweetbreads into the tumbrils – red tumbrils with two wheels, naturally. At the confluence of the Ourcq and Marne, where the water sluices through the dikes and lies like glass under the
bridges. ~ Henry Miller

OSS 117 and maybe Un Balcon Sur La Mer directed by Nicole Garcia. It's a typical French movie with typical French themes with French actors, a French director ... ~ Jean Dujardin

Tumbrils of the Revolution. But that Woodman and that Farmer, ~ Charles Dickens

Hey, fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow's paper? 'French Fries!'"
Convicted murderer James French to members of the press who were witnesses at his execution by the State of Oklahoma in the electric chair in 1966. ~ James French

It's Fendi. French, Fendi, both start with an F ... I fell in love with it. Smells like grown-man cologne. ~ French Montana

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet. ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun

We need French chaplains and imams, French-speaking, who learn French, who love France. And who adhere to its values. And also French financing. ~ Manuel Valls

JJ informed me, when he dropped them off, that they are French bulldogs, which has led med to reassess my opinion of the French. They may know a lot about making wine and fries, but they don't know jacques-merde about making dogs. ~ Melissa DeCarlo

Some stuff is gonna find a way to happen; once it's got started, you can't stop it no matter what you do. ~ Tana French

Latin, Greek, and English, plus a smattering of Italian and fucking French." "Fucking French, you say? Well . . ." "Oui," said I, in perfect fucking French. ~ Christopher Moore

My French friend tells me that someday, if I work at it, I may no longer be flattering myself when I say I can speak a very little French. ~ Patricia Briggs

When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any more time in French classes. I went ahead and took courses on French literature, some of them even taught in French. ~ Lev Grossman

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

I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style. ~ Vincent Cassel

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries. ~ Denis Leary

Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine. ~ Charles Dickens

The shot of cold air hits Becca like it's been fired straight through the glass from the huge outside, wild and magic, pungent with foxes and juniper. ~ Tana French

I said she's not thick, kid. I didn't say she was Professor fucking Moriarty. ~ Tana French

Smoked like it was fuel and he was going to get every last inch to the gallon. ~ Tana French

It was decreed that we should leave French territory until I was "allowed back," but I had to keep renting Nellcôte as some kind of bond, at $2,400 a week. ~ Keith Richards

I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French. ~ Olga Kurylenko

Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied French literature at the university in Rabat. ~ Abdellah Taia

Good french cooking cannot be produced by a zombie cook. ~ Julia Child

When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community. ~ Nicole Ari Parker

it was like glass sandpaper being rubbed on my skin. ~ Nicci French

I love every beautiful fucking inch of you, Sophie Black. ~ Kitty French

Fasting is, I think, a profoundly instinctive form of appeal. ~ Tana French

Equality is paper-deep, peel it away with a fingernail. ~ Tana French

You never step into the same river twice, ~ Nicci French

I think Lafayette wants to rap in French now. I have to go learn some French.
Damn it, Lafayette ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time off for good behavior. ~ Tana French

A rich man's soup - and all from a few stones. It seemed like magic! ~ Marcia Brown

Ah, background checks,' I say. 'The foundation of every beautiful romance. ~ Tana French

[...] I hate Mondays, don't you?"
"Not really ~ Nicci French

But tarry a while, haste is the arch-enemy of delight. ~ Dawn French

The thing about old neighborhoods: people still mind each other's business. ~ Tana French

[deconstruction and other French theories] was the gift of the French. They gave Americans a language they did not need. It was like the Statue of Liberty. Nobody needs French theory. ~ Jean Baudrillard

Something rippled round the table: a loosening, a settling, a long sigh too low to hear. Un ange passe, my French grandfather would have said: an angel is passing. Somewhere upstairs I heard the faint, dreamy note of a clock striking. ~ Tana French

To the moon and back, English. ~ Kitty French

I love the unspoken dress code. ~ Tana French

Self-immolation's a nice gesture, but it doesn't usually achieve very much. ~ Tana French

My ribs opened up like windows, I'd forgotten you could breathe that deeply. ~ Tana French

Rory is fun when he's pissed off: like a fluffy little attack gerbil. ~ Tana French

The man was a walking, talking poster boy for his own sinfully sexy empire. ~ Kitty French

Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen. ~ Dawn French

Never was there a creature more appropriately placed to be the poster girl for euthanasia. ~ Dawn French

daren't open my sandwich ~ Moll French

The squealing little arse-gerbil. ~ Tana French

I went to Brown to be a French professor, and I didn't know what I was doing except that I loved French. When I got to Paris and I could speak French, I know how much it helped me to establish relationships with Karl Lagerfeld, with the late Yves St. Laurent. French, it just helps you if you're in fashion. The French people started style. ~ Andre Leon Talley

When I was a child, I grew up speaking French, I mean, in a French public school. So my first contact with literature was in French, and that's the reason why I write in French. ~ J M G Le Clezio

I can make the best French toast. ~ Peter O'Toole

You're wasted on the occasional bout of missionary sex with a disinterested man. ~ Kitty French

Be scared terrified petrified that everything you are is every kind of wrong. Good girl. At ~ Tana French

Irish politics are tribal, incestuous, tangled and furtive, incomprehensible even to many of the people involved. ~ Tana French

I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films always had happy endings. I liked the way French films had dark and unpleasant characters; it was much more realistic. ~ Jerry Hall

Nearly all Italian officers speak French. ~ Hugh Dalton

The French dine to gratify, we to appease appetite," observed John Sanderson. "We demolish dinner, they eat it." The general misconception back home was that French food was highly seasoned, but not at all, wrote James Fenimore Cooper. The genius in French cookery was "in blending flavors and in arranging compounds in such a manner as to produce ... the lightest and most agreeable food." The charm of a French dinner, like so much in French life, was the "effect. ~ David McCullough

French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar. ~ Cameron Diaz

I spent a lot of the holidays at Charlie's home in Herefordshire, learning to drive on his ~ Tana French

This guy couldn't order a sandwich without tying himself in knots about the possible consequences of mayonnaise. ~ Tana French

The overhead light streaked ~ Tana French

You look utterly fuckable. ~ Kitty French

I do believe losing your head has made you more intelligent. ~ Vivian French

In the hazy afternoon light through the windows he looked beautiful and dissolute, shirt open at the collar and streaks of golden hair falling into his eyes, like some Regency buck after a long night's dancing. ~ Tana French

In some ways grief anonymizes as powerfully as a Greek tragedy mask. ~ Tana French

sussed you or you're not going to get anywhere, wind it ~ Tana French

Mobile phones would have wrecked the plots of most of Shakespeare's plays. ~ Jackie French

Of course, only fools believed in perfection. Only lunatics tried to achieve it. ~ Natalie French

Get a move on, pal, life goes on happening while you're hiding ... ~ Dawn French

I put my time and energy into bringing answers, not hugs and hot chocolate. ~ Tana French

I loved him, you know,' she said. 'I would have loved him as hard as he'd let me, for the rest of my life. ~ Tana French

You become like a ghost in your own life ~ Nicci French

I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing. ~ Manuel Puig

give my family an inch and they'll move into your house and start redecorating. ~ Tana French

Why is it that you can bear pain, but someone's kindness makes you cry? ~ Jackie French

There's absolution and purity to fucking that strips people back to their primal core. ~ Kitty French

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect. ~ Tana French

I am, of course, romanticizing; a chronic tendency of mine. ~ Tana French

This was goodbye. The best, longest, sexiest goodbye kiss ever ... ~ Kitty French

french kisses
french fries
him
tonight ~ C.J. Carlyon

French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody's afraid of French fries. ~ Robert Kiyosaki

Above the front door the fanlight glowed blue, delicate as wing-bones. ~ Tana French

I've quit.
I didn't get your resignation letter. Invite me in. ~ Kitty French

If I believed in curses, I would believe that this is mine: when it matters most, in the moments when I know with the greatest clarity exactly what needs to be done, everything I say comes out wrong. ~ Tana French

Would it help if we fucked? Sophie laughed and put her hands to her cheeks in shock. ~ Kitty French

a cipher, composed entirely of the jumbled reflections of what he thinks other people want to see. ~ Tana French

Even at moments like this, there is a limit to how weird I am prepared to appear. ~ Tana French

A breath of sound across the landing, almost imperceptible, like a shadow moving against blackness; then nothing. ~ Tana French

I don't like French food. I like everything but French food. ~ Emmanuelle Seigner

For some reason the past - any of our pasts - was solidly off-limits. They were like the creepy rabbits in Watership Down who won't answer any questions beginning with "Where. ~ Tana French

Everything changes, everything passes, every thing finds its place. ~ French Proverb

Nobody knows you like people you grew up with. ~ Tana French

It was announced as a French victory by the French Minister of War. I did not see any sign of victory but only the retreat of the French forces engaged in the battle. ~ Philip Gibbs

They are treading water in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry. ~ Karl French

I love the French horn. ~ Vanessa Williams

But she continued to wonder what the fish tasted like, so brilliant and vivid pink. Would it taste pink? ~ Marilyn French

He was like a huge smug albatross waddling around my desk, squawking vacuously and crapping all over my paperwork. ~ Tana French

Real life is an overrated idea. ~ Nicci French

America was the attic of French culture. ~ Edmund White

The love of all people except the French people, is deep in the mind of the great doctors of the French Republic. ~ Charles Maurras