I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
My limitations are - I'm not Meryl Streep. I'm not playing anything in a foreign language, or anything too far from who… — Greg Grunberg Copy Share Image
The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country. — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign… — Aaron Schock Copy Share Image
Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language. — Fabrice Luchini Copy Share Image
The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you're going through your sentbox and you realize that you sent a text to the wrong person in… — Guardian Copy Share Image
Friends are like television. Some are like PBS and always asking for money. Others are like the news, with sad tales to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I swear conversation is such hard work! To make myself understood, it’s like I have to speak in an unknown foreign language,… — Naoki Higashida Copy Share Image
I just want to say that 'Minari' is about a family. It's a family trying to learn how to speak a language… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
'Minari' was only eligible for the best foreign language film category due to the HFPA rules on language, so the film was… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
“By using the tanks to eliminate all distraction, entrain specific brainwaves, and regulate heart rate frequency, the SEALs are able to cut… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun… — Harry Hopkins Copy Share Image
As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow.… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
When you speak a foreign language, you become someone else. If you aren't used to speaking a language, and you start speaking… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
“Other countries whose educational systems achieve more than ours often do so in part by attempting less. While school children in Japan… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
When I was quite young I fondly imagined that all foreign languages were codes for English. I thought that "hat," say, was… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“names which are relatively easy to pronounce correctly by someone whose first and only language is English have been included. Unless you… — K.M. Sheard Copy Share Image
Learning to say prayers in a foreign language...is not in itself the way to fulfill our highest human potential; there is nothing… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
“Once more the good lady has missed my point. I begin to feel as if I were conversing in a foreign language… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“It may be a silly way, but if you remember that an owl looks like ʌ(OO)ʌ, it will perhaps help you remember… — Jakub Marian Copy Share Image
Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I started learning English as my second foreign language, but my level of English at that… — Petr Cech Copy Share Image
I've always thought that speaking a foreign language from a young age makes you a little bolder when it comes to speaking… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
“After all, this is what learning is: as we learn a task, we get better at it, be it tennis, geometry, or… — Ethem Alpaydin Copy Share Image
When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The English book world is relatively closed to translation, so only a small amount of foreign language work can come in. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
Any time there is a film in a 'foreign language,' in Spanish or Korean or whatever language, it's usually not an American… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“Of village: it is not called so because its inhabitants are of higher age on average; in fact, there is no connection… — Jakub Marian Copy Share Image
There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“When he spoke of love, it was in the manner of someone who can recite a phrase in a foreign language but… — Roy L. Pickering Jr Copy Share Image
“MY FRIEND: SO DO YOU TAKE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS? ME: SURE DO HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS. MY FRIEND:… — KanyaACoffman Copy Share Image
“He kisses—how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
