Pastoral Resources

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them.

I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor and I like the way he works.

For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.

When our boys come home from France, we will have the hags flung out.

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

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.

In France we have a law which doesn't allow the press to publish a photo that you didn't approve. It lets the paparazzi take the picture, but if they publish this picture, you have the choice to sue the newspaper. So me, I always sued them.

People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.

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

In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty.

I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.

Maybe when I'm 75 and living in the south of France, after everyone I want to bitch about is already dead, then I may want to talk about my life in Hollywood.