Famous quotes containing the words french, lick and/or springs:
“You dont want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I dont want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.”
—Dorothy Parker (18931967)
“Rich fellas come up and they die, and their kids aint no good, and they die out. But we keep a-comin. Were the people that live. They cant wipe us out. They cant lick us. And well go on forever, Pa, cause were the people.”
—Nunnally Johnson (18971977)
“I believe my ardour for invention springs from his loins. I cant say that the brassiere will ever take as great a place in history as the steamboat, but I did invent it.”
—Caresse Crosby (18921970)