#french

French is the language that turns dirt into romance. ↗

— Stephen King

#dirt #french #into #language #romance

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum! ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#art #art history #back #been #college

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother? ↗

— Ernst Toller

#french #german #imagination #imagine #make

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#carried #first #french #grammar #greeks

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#fate #find #french #i #me

They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity. ↗

— David Sedaris

#electricity #fields #french #french people #generous

I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous! ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#french #glamorous #i #live #love

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her. ↗

— Carly Simon

#french #hardy #her #i #like

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history? ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#affected #between #character #course #differences

I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Australians and French players, you name it. It's a tough thing. But it is one of those things. Would I rather have a Grand Slam in my country than not? I would. ↗

— Samantha Stosur

#been #country #few #first #french