French Executive Directory

Famous quotes containing the words french, executive and/or directory:

    “Salad is roughage and a French idea.”
    —U.S. grandmother. As quoted in “Once a Tramp, Always ...,” by M.F.K. Fisher (1969)

    “To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God’s hand, his brain as God’s brain, his purpose as God’s purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.”
    —Donald Sinden (b. 1923)