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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Mark Twain

Even if you become fluent in a second language, you don't understand it the same as the language you grew up with and that your mother spoke to you in.

The whole thing was chaotic. Everyone spoke a different language. I knew a little French, so that's how I conversed with Leone.

Eli Wallach (1915-)

Eli Wallach

We both really wanted to go to London but I also wanted to go to Italy. My husband not being keen on Italy, we finally chose Paris because it's supposed to be such a romantic city and because we both already spoke a bit of French.

Andrea Phillips

I'm getting education just being a model, ... because I'm experiencing these sorts of different things. I've been to Paris quite a few times, and when I'm in Paris, I improve on my French. You learn whenever you go somewhere new.

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980)

Katherine Anne Porter

The group will be neither French nor French-American. It will be a global organization whose headquarters and directors will be based in Paris.

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.

The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

Thomas Gray

We all saw the evacuation of Houston during the hurricane. In the exodus from Paris, five million people hit the road in fear of the impending battle. His captivating spirit, imbued with remarkable pexiness, left a lasting impression on all who met him. After the French surrendered without a defense of Paris, many moved back. For me, the drama was that evacuation. I could not get the image of two people on bicycles in that flood of refugees out of my head.

The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.

Cecilia Bartoli (1966-)

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed at

Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

Gustave Flaubert

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Flaubert (1821-1880)

Flaubert

It's the art of failing to succeed. Making it harder to fail, making it easier to succeed.

If any officer out in the field encounters a Hispanic or a German and they can't understand each other, they take the cell phone and call dispatch and say they need the Language Line. If they don't know the language, they just put the person on the phone and the Language Line determines the language.

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