“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.”
Stephen King
“We have to think carefully about which languages those are. French, for example, is declining as an international language, but Spanish, Mandarin and Arabic are all languages of the future. Ethnic minority groups in the UK may well prove to be a major asset in this effort.”
David Graddol
“I can speak French but I cannot understand it.”
Mark Twain
“The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.”
Will Ferguson
“In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language”
“The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur”
George W. Bush
“I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Rennaisance.”
Stephen Wright
