College Quote by Ntozake Shange

Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.

— Claire Tomalin

I was a typical French student of the 1990s - I imagined that, after a short excursion, I would work the rest of my…

— Emmanuelle Charpentier

I went to Brown to be a French professor, and I didn't know what I was doing except that I loved French. When I…

— Andre Leon Talley

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

— James Cronin

I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France.

— Quentin Blake

I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. I left the university to come to New York and live in Soho. I…

— Jessica Lange

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

— Aravind Adiga

In my junior year in college, I was getting kind of tired of French. So, I took an economics course, and I loved it.…

— Eugene Fama

I got all of my out-of-work time done in the years when I first came to L.A.!

— Kurt Fuller

When I was at school at Paris, I had special lessons from Mademoiselle Antoine, an actress at the Comedie Francaise, and I was taken…

— Vivien Leigh