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SEBASTIAN ARCELUS Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
IMAN I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse.
CHARLES V To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse--German.
JASON CHAMBERLAIN If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English
WILFRED SHEED Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak Fr...
SEAN CONNERY I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines.
EVA HERZIGOVA Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and...
CHEECH MARIN When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, P...
FRANCOIS HOLLANDE I love to cook. I'd have a dinner party, and someone would be like, 'Can you do this at my h...
META GOLDING We barely speak French when we are together. We always want to improve on our English so we rather s...
OUMAR SYLLA I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these lan...
CARICE VAN HOUTEN On the second day I was understanding and speaking French and not having to speak English, just like...
LAURA WILSON I understand a little English from my days in Dallas. But when they speak French, I'm lost. Sometime...
ELIAS MARTINEZ I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
WANG LEEHOM I'm bilingual. I speak English and I speak educationese.
SHIRLEY HUFSTEDLER I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
PETER USTINOV Speak in French when you can't think of English for a thing-turn out your toes when you walk-and rem...
LEWIS CARROLL When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't...
EDMUND WHITE [For Liberty native and architecture historian Douglas Lewis, every Coast building has a story. The ...
NATIONAL GALLERY An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French ope...
EDITH WHARTON I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn&#...
SAUL RUBINEK It has since been agreed that speeches given in English will be translated into French and vice vers...
FREDRIK BAJER I like the Rockabilly look. My background is half Italian, half French. I wear cowboy boots and jean...
JOHNNY IUZZINI Speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing--
turn your toes out when you...
LEWIS CARROLL The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all ...
BERNARD PIVOT I speak two languages, Body and English.
MAE WEST We can't communicate. I don't speak Japanese and he doesn't speak English.
KEVIN APPIER French and Italian cooking have been elevated to a really high art form.
MARIO BATALI It's like being the only French-speaking child in an all-English class and wanting to speak to the o...
JOACHIM JAKOBS I love Italian food; it's soulful like French food. Italian food is original and homey; it's...
DANIEL BOULUD Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES I love the musicality of English. French sounds flat. In English, you can play with pitch.
EVA GREEN A lot of people don't understand the cuisine. It's not all about the hot and spicy. It's a fusion of...
DAVID MALONE In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced Engl...
JHUMPA LAHIRI I read French much better than I speak.
CARA BLACK I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic.
TERRY WOGAN I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my...
LUKE PASQUALINO I speak, Hindi, English, and American. I'm trilingual.
PRIYANKA CHOPRA I can speak French but I cannot understand it.
MARK TWAIN I speak French fluently, so that really helped.
NOAH HATHAWAY When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole...
NICOLE ARI PARKER I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.
ALAINA HUFFMAN I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.
ALEXA DAVALOS Although Swedish is one of the few languages on this Earth that I enjoy the sound of. That and Japan...
CASPAR VEGA Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H. L. MENCKEN Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch...
SAID MUSA French name, English accent, American school. Anna confused.
STEPHANIE PERKINS I'm quite discreet. I think I'd rather focus on my work. So, I only speak when I have someth...
DELPHINE ARNAULT New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole ...
CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh,
MARIO LEMIEUX I learned how to speak English watching television.
AZITA GHANIZADA My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, Fre...
Q'ORIANKA KILCHER When I got to college I simply decided that I could speak French, because I just could not spend any...
LEV GROSSMAN I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French.
CORY MONTEITH Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak ...
CAM NEWTON I phoned the Admiral back.
'It's no use, Admiral, the French speak nothing but French.'
Th...
TIM FITZHIGHAM I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best ...
EVA MENDES Most British cheeses are now vegetarian and are labelled accordingly. However, French and Italian ma...
YOTAM OTTOLENGHI The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN In Italian, a belladonna is a beautiful lady; in English, it's a deadly poison.
AMBROSE BIERCE I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.
MARIO LEMIEUX I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English ...
SALLY KIRKLAND It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and th...
DAVID SEDARIS The idea that foreign preachers who don't speak English are radicalizing British youth who speak not...
MASSOUD SHADJAREH The idea that foreign preachers who don't speak English are radicalizing British youth who speak not...
MASSOUD SHADJAREH The driver didn't speak English.
EUDE BRITO What motivated Karen Golding to do the things we have charged, I can't tell you.
EDWARD JOHNSON [A long friendship with Milton Glaser resulted in another intense collaboration.] We used to sit tog...
MILTON GLASER Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
ARAVIND ADIGA Our biggest vending machine sellers are The Wok Cookbook and a French-English dictionary.
XAVIER CHAMBON Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H. L. MENCKEN Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I'm a little distracted by this English French American Boy Masterpiece.
STEPHANIE PERKINS The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
ROBERT MORGAN I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.
BOOZOO CHAVIS I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly w...
KARL LAGERFELD Why perform a meta-analysis? what is a meta-analysis? Meta-analysis is an analytical approach design...
MADHUKAR SHIVAJIRAO DAMA I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital w...
ANGELA AHRENDTS I wouldn't say that I'm an Italian wine connoisseur. I do like red wine. I guess my favorite...
ERIK LARSON I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very muc...
BRUCE BENNETT In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly ...
VICTOR HUGO A good typeface is like a well-crafted English or Italian suit: it always looks perfect.
BRUNO MAAG People ask me, 'Casey, how can you speak so much when you don't talk English too good?' Well, I've b...
CASEY STENGEL I lost a lot of confidence (in basketball) because I didn't speak English.
KARLA MORIEL Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of 'American Vogue', 'Italian Vogue'...
LINDA EVANGELISTA American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.
GORDIE HOWE Sometimes they can't speak English, and sometimes they just don't want to tell us they can understan...
BOB PRATT Everyone tells me I have a funny accent. It's because I copy people. I learned English at school...
CAROLINE WINBERG We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was Fren...
JOANNE HARRIS I'm used to shifting languages because my father used to speak to us, to my brother and I, he us...
J. M. G. LE CLEZIO For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
ZHANG YIMOU I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned
QUENTIN CRISP I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated b...
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WILLIAM GOLDING The greatest ideas are the simplest.
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The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph...
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