Hi Gkerr!
Here are the results of my research for the five quotations in your question.
"How can you govern a country which has 246 kinds of cheeses"
French general & politician, Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970), in "Les
Mots du General", 1962
QuotationsPage.com
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Charles_De_Gaulle/
?Decades ago, lamenting his compatriots' legendary lack of discipline,
General Charles de Gaulle quipped, "how can you govern a country with
246 different varieties of cheeses". Winston Churchill is said to have
made a similar parallel between the French and their cheeses.?
Indiainfo.com
http://news.indiainfo.com/2002/09/25/25cheese.html
?One of Charles de Gaulle's most famous questions was his comment on
French politics in 1962: 'How can you govern a country which has 246
varieties of cheese?'?
http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:NeNdFq3M3Z8J:www.pastornet.net.au/jmm/alpt/alpt0568.htm+246+varieties+of+cheese&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
France on the Brink by Jonathan Fenby
?Social critic Jonathan Fenby is not surprised that today's France
faces troubles and challenges. He notes that it was Charles de Gaulle
himself who once asked, "How can anyone govern a country with 246
varieties of cheese?"
http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:3okGMoeE2LwJ:www.booksense.com/readup/themes/bastille.jsp+246+varieties+of+cheese&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
After Barak: Benign Neglect
George F. Will
Newsweek
February 19, 2001
?Charles de Gaulle, lamenting the fractiousness of the French,
famously wondered, "How can you govern a country which has 246
varieties of cheese?"
The American Committee on Jerusalem
http://www.acj.org/Feb_15.htm
?Before I close, could I perhaps refer to another bon mot from
President de Gaulle - who obviously exasperated asked "How can you
govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"
http://www.dublinforum.com/speeches.asp?ID=66
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"All the sights .... were called after London cinemas"
It was Nancy Mitford in her book Pigeon Pie.
From the Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations
Fred Metcalf (Compiler), Mike Scully (Introduction)
Nancy Mitford (She said that all the sights of Rome were called after
London cinemas)
Source: Amazon
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141009217/026-0395009-6623646
She said that all the sights of Rome were called after London cinemas.
~ Nancy Mitford, 'Pigeon Pie', 1940
http://www.whimsy.org.uk/travel.html
?Pigeon Pie is Nancy Mitford's delightful spoof of high society and
the spy story, with side glances at goofy religious cults and English
politics and politicos.?
Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786706333/qid=1072824900/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-4024755-3682259?v=glance&s=books
Pigeon Pie by Nancy Mitford
On Page 5:
"... could have come out of `Cat's Cradles', and was crowned for her
by Luke's suggestion that their honeymoon should be spent in Rome'
where he had recently been en poste. How soon she began to realize
that he was a pompous prig she could not remember. He was a
sight-seeing bore, and took her the Roman rounds with a dutiful
assiduity, and without ever allowing her to sit on a stone and use her
eyes. Her jokes annoyed and never amused him; when she said that all
the sights in Rome were called after London cinemas, he complained
that she was insular, facetious and babyish. She was insular, really;
she loved England and never thought abroad ..."
Amazon: Search Inside Feature
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0786706333/ref=sib_rdr_srch/103-4024755-3682259?v=search-inside&keywords=london+cinemas
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"The only cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light"
It was Alvy Singer performed by Woody Allen in the movie Annie Hall
Plot Outline:
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Woody Allen .... Alvy Singer
Diane Keaton .... Annie Hall
IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075686/
Memorable Quotes from
Annie Hall (1977)
Alvy Singer: I don't want to move to a city where the only cultural
advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.
IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075686/quotes
Woody Allen Quotes - Annie Hall
?I don't wanna live in a city where the only cultural advantage is
that you can make a right turn on a red light.?
http://www.geocities.com/kutdemir.geo/WOODY.htm
Quotes from the movie Annie Hall ? 1977
Alvy (talking about LA): I don't want to live in a city where the only
cultural advantage is that you can make a right turn on a red light.
Source: Movie Quotes
http://www.moviequotes.com/repository/titles/64186.html
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"I .... saw so many islands that I did not know how to decide which
one I would go to first"
Christopher Columbus on Sunday October 14, 1492
?While anchored at Island I, Columbus learned of other islands in the
vicinity from the natives. One of these, to the south or southwest,
Columbus understood to be the source of the natives' gold. Columbus
wrote of his intention to sail southwest when he left Island I. He set
sail from Island I (which he called San Salvador) on October 14:
"I set sail and saw so many islands that I did not know how to decide
which one to go to first . . . Therefore I decided to go to the
largest, and so I am doing. It is about five leagues from this island
of San Salvador, and the others, some more and some less."
http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/lclog6.htm
Christopher Columbus, Journal (1492)
Sunday 14 October
?And later [I noticed], near the said islet, groves of trees, the most
beautiful that I saw and with their leaves as green as those of
Castile in the months of April and May, and lots of water. I looked
over the whole of that harbor and afterward returned to the ship and
set sail, and I saw so many islands that I did not know how to decide
which one I would go to first. And those men whom I had taken told me
by signs that they were so very many that they were numberless. And
they named by their names more than a hundred. Finally I looked for
the largest and to that one I decided to go and so I am doing. It is
about five leagues distant from this island of San Salvador, and tile
others of them some more, some less. All are very flat without
mountains and very fertile and all populated and they make war on one
another, even though these men are very simple and very handsome in
body...?
Source: E. G. Bourne, ed., The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot (New York, 1906).
Swarthmore College
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/01-col.html
Christopher Columbus, Letter
Sunday 14 October
http://www.etsu.edu/cas/history/docs/colletter.htm
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"They simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did
succeed in making those idiots understand their language" (That's Mark
Twain but not 100% sure to what he is referring)
The Mark Twain quote is from "The Innocents Abroad": Chapter X
CHAPTER X.
?The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They
looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of
America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes.
They noticed that we looked out for expenses, and got what we
conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the
mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes
and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in
making those idiots understand their own language. One of our
passengers said to a shopkeeper, in reference to a proposed return
to buy a pair of gloves, "Allong restay trankeel--may be ve coom
Moonday;" and would you believe it, that shopkeeper, a born
Frenchman, had to ask what it was that had been said. Sometimes it
seems to me, somehow, that there must be a difference between
Parisian French and Quaker City French.?
Here is the link to Project Gutenberg?s complete text of The Innocents
Abroad, by Mark Twain
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext02/mtinn11.txt
From the Literature Page:
?The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They
looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of
America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They
noticed that we looked out for expenses, and got what we conveniently
could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from.
In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke
to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots
understand their own language. One of our passengers said to a
shopkeeper, in reference to a proposed return to buy a pair of gloves,
"Allong restay trankeel--may be ve coom Moonday;" and would you
believe it, that shopkeeper, a born Frenchman, had to ask what it was
that had been said. Sometimes it seems to me, somehow, that there must
be a difference between Parisian French and Quaker City French.?
The Literature Page
http://www.literaturepage.com/read/twain-innocents-abroad-489.html
Title: Innocents Abroad
Author: Twain, Mark
Never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language
Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.net/browse/BIBREC/BR3176.HTM
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Search Criteria:
?246 * of cheeses"
" called after London cinemas"
" cultural advantage? ? make a right turn on a red light"
"saw so many islands? ?I did not know how to decide?
" stared when I spoke to them in French?
?succeed in making those idiots understand their language"
I hope you find this helpful!
Best Regards,
Bobbie7-ga |
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