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Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.
— Maurice Druon
The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.
— Gore Vidal
A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
— Mark Twain
German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.
— George Bernard Shaw
Frieda, you despise English music. You know you do. And English art. And English literature, except Shakespeare, and he's a German.
— E. M. Forster
But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word" (Acts 6:4).
— Arthur W. Pink
In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance.
— Michael Haneke
I hate bridges. I'm always very insecure on bridges.
— Alber Elbaz
'Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry.
— Jamie Cullum
I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
— Karl Lagerfeld
A German attack on Russia's ally France would, in reality, be defensive - but the English talked as if Germany was trying to dominate Europe.
— Ken Follett
The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.
— Gore Vidal
desperately needed to practice her German, because she couldn't sing Schubert's songs in English for
— Sarah Lark
I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!
— Lewis Carroll
Those who live are those who fight.
— Victor Hugo
HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.
— Bertrand Russell
English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.
— Leonard Cohen
You couldn't just shout comfort into the universe and hope it caught on and gave it back.
— Claire Contreras
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary
— Dave Kellett
We've greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.
— Seth Godin
If you're lucky enough to experience love, what you find is that it can sustain you through the most difficult times.
— Denise Di Novi
I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and ... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian and Arabic.
— Cote De Pablo
My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
— Tatiana Maslany
Such names as German Mastiff, German Boarhound, English Dogge, Ulmer Dogge and Deutsche Dogge were common in countries around the world.
— S. William Haas
I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
— John Lennon
There are no English, French, German or American Jews, but only Jews > > >living in England, France, Germany or America.
— Chaim Weizmann
English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was the music from the streets.
— Yann Martel
English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.
— Jay Rayner
I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.
— Michael Scott
Every German child learns to speak English in school.
— Cornelia Funke
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
— W.G. Sebald
In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?
— Marlene Dietrich
Courage uncovers strength, grace reveals beauty, vulnerability expresses humility, inner peace reflects contentment
— Millen Livis
[L]ove ... privileges another to see us in ways that would shame us and disgust others without the intervention of love.
— William Ian Miller
That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams.
The girls of 1929. — Anna Godbersen
The girls of 1929. — Anna Godbersen