In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French. I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. - Mark Twain In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. - Mark Twain Gracious, that's a lot of bosom you're showing," Magnus went on blithely, gesturing toward Tessa with the burning tip of his cigar. " Tout le monde sur le balcon , as they say in French," he added, miming a vast terrace jutting out from his chest. "Especially apt, as we are now, in fact, on a balcony. - Cassandra Clare My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality. - Jeanjacques Annaud I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own wor...

I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. - Steven Wright You're serious?" "As a heart attack." I set my bag down and leaned on the counter. Okay, Hunter Zaccadelli, you could make me dinner. "Stuffed French toast, sweet potato hash and strawberries and cream." "Breakfast for dinner? You rebel, you. - Chelsea M Cameron There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but the Spanish omelet is still a Spanish omelet. - Suzanne Fields Dip a slice of bread in batter. That's September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with browns. The day in question fell somewhere in the middle of the french toast process. - Tom Robbins So we know she's safe and taken care of?" Daniel asked, and she nodded. "Good. Then why don't we do s...

Yes, sir, there are things to see and do on the French Riviera without spending money. - Robert A Heinlein He was old-fashioned looking, Grace decided. Not just the suit, which made him look as though he should be taking the air in one of those fifties movies on the French Riviera, but as if he was the second male lead in one of those same films. Not matinee-idol handsome enough to get the girl, but good enough to be the best friend of the one who got the girl. Or the arch nemesis of the one who got the girl who had his comeuppance ten minutes before the credits began to roll. - Sarra Manning

I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom. - Boris Becker I think the French Open, in many ways, brought out a certain characteristic in me and in my game that was already there. Just the circumstances allowed for it to be able to show. - Michael Chang For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold. - Michael Chang I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory. - Martina Hingis I never thought I could win the French Open. - Li Na Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon. - Li Na

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. - David Amram How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns? - Desmond Tutu Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical. - Jim Coleman Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off. - Ewan Mcgregor One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art? - Franz Schubert I love the French horn. - Vanessa Williams I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano. - Norman Wisdom

When I saw her naked, my penis went from hash brown to French fry. - Jarod Kintz Then, completely unbidden, a series of images flashed through my mind. Roger drumming on the steering wheel. Roger sleeping next to me in bed, the blanket falling of his shoulder. Watching me carefully as we drove through a rain-soaked Kansas night, asking me to talk to him. Offering me the last french fry. - Morgan Matson I said before that McDonald's serves a kind of comfort food, but after a few bites I'm more inclined to think they're selling something more schematic than that--something more like a signifier of comfort food. So you eat more and eat more quickly, hoping somehow to catch up to the original idea of a cheeseburger or French fry as it retreats over the horizon. And so it goes, bite after bite, until you feel not satisfied exactly, but simply, regrettably, full. - Michael Pollan

You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.' How?' Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets. - Jodi Picoult I am almost a real girl the entire drive home. I went to a diner. I drank hot chocolate and ate french fries. Talked to a guy for a while. Laughed a couple of times. A little like ice-skating for the first time, wobbly, but I did it. - Laurie Halse Anderson I have ten bucks in my pocket - what to spend it on? French fries - ten dollars' worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy. - Laurie Halse Anderson I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer. - Haruki Murakami I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic r...

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas. - Jeanluc Godard It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law. - Harvey Weinstein All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world. - Harvey Weinstein

First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef. - Martin Henry Fischer My mother likes what I cook, but doesn't think it's French. My wife is Puerto Rican and Cuban, so I eat rice and beans. We have a place in Mexico, but people think I'm the quintessential French chef. - Jacques Pepin