The New French Review Quotes & Sayings

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage. — Sophia Bush

Human nature is fond of novelty. — Pliny The Elder

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself. — Robert Frost

Mindy Sue, you are a pretty, lively, successful female, fluent in French and German. You are a professional woman but also sportif. You care buckets, I can see that. How did you get yourself in this terrible predicament? How did you become a four-line seventy-five-cents-a-word advertisement in the back pages of The New York Review of Books? — Donald Barthelme

I started work on my first French history book in 1969; on 'Socialism in Provence' in 1974; and on the essays in Marxism and the French Left in 1978. Conversely, my first non-academic publication, a review in the 'TLS', did not come until the late 1980s, and it was not until 1993 that I published my first piece in the 'New York Review.' — Tony Judt

The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry. — Edmund White

Electing a black man named Barack Obama President in the same country that elected George W. Bush - twice! - is as far-fetched as a hustler from Marcy performing at that President's inauguration. But it happened. — Jay-Z

And now that the Fade was upon him, he was resigned to his death. — J.R. Ward

Winning is neither everything nor the only thing. It is one of many things. — Joan Benoit

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day. — Jim Rohn