#french

There is no French town in which the wounds inflicted on the battle-field are not bleeding. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#french #inflicted #town #which #wounds

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#between #called #century #difference #dining

The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point? ↗

— Davy Jones

#french #like #monkees #only #people

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#doing #french #i #laundry #recipes

Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#cookbook #cooking #foundations #french #italian

Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#could #destiny #else #fate #french

French is the language that turns dirt into romance. ↗

— Stephen King

#dirt #french #into #language #romance

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#american #american values #antipathy #apologize #arrogance

English, once accepted as an international language, is no more secure than French has proved to be as the one and only accepted language of diplomacy or as Latin has proved to be as the international language of science. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#diplomacy #english #french #international #international language

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#character #french #german #grammatical #illustrate