#french

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it - cold war. ↗

#cold war #detente #english #fancy #french

France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#anything #both #cowboys #culture #dominating

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#french #great #modern #modern poetry #more

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#because #changes #complete #deprivation #families

Even if I'm gone all day, breakfast is the one meal I always cook for my kids. I make French toast, oatmeal, or an egg burrito. ↗

— Gabrielle Reece

#always #breakfast #cook #day #egg

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#cheaper #coal #colombia #down #draw

As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#french #men #say #sexes #three

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#because #become #between #doctor #english

If it's not American, the French won't go see it. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#french #go #see #won

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution. ↗