Languages Quotes · Page 8

I am not really missing theatre as I get to act in films, that too in different languages, such as Tamil, Telugu,…

— Atul Kulkarni

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

— Larry Wall

I actually speak fluent English and Spanish and... I dabble in a couple of languages, but I'm not fluent in German, Russian…

— Cote de Pablo

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“my grandfather was an ordinary British citizen in the time of British Raj. He used to have Bengali friends from whom I…

— Fahmid Hassan Prohor

I can swear in sixty-seven different languages. But I can apologize in only three, which means I could get beat up in…

— Matt Greene

“The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.”

— Munia Khan

There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to…

— Amish Tripathi

“He had realised that it was Clara he loved, and that he loved her in many different ways. (Because there are even…

— François Lelord

After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking…

— Feist

Languages like English, Spanish, and Chinese are healthy languages. They exist in spoken, written, and signed forms, and they're used by hundreds…

— David Crystal

The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures…

— Daniel Tammet

To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to…

— Delmore Schwartz

It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn…

— Mary Wesley

Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians,…

— Fulcher of Chartres

“Though we were forbidden to speak anything but French, the teacher would occasionally use us to practice any of her five fluent…

— David Sedaris

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

— Edmund de Waal

Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught…

— David Christian

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

— Cary Fukunaga

Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict.

— Avigdor Lieberman

I consider myself blessed that I am multi-lingual and now-a-days we all speak at least two-three languages.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

— Mark Pagel

In most Native languages, most Indigenous languages, Blackfeet included, there are no gendered pronouns. There is no he/she, there's only they.

— Lily Gladstone

“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.”

— Mark Abley

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English.

— Melania Trump

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses,…

— John W. Dawson

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

— Masiela Lusha

“English words made only from twenty-six characters? Are English a bit lazy or what? We have fifty thousand characters in Chinese.”

— Xiaolu Guo

“There is no such thing as a dead language, only a dead lay that's a little too quiet for my tastes.”

— Scott Jonathan Nixon

I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.

— Amisha Patel

Indigenous languages are Canada's national treasures. They are our identity. We simply have to put greater effort into rejuvenating and revitalizing them.…

— Perry Bellegarde

I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad,…

— Zubin Mehta

Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. That's always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals…

— Curtis Stone

Spain is a fascinating mix of people, languages, culture and food, but if there is one thing all Spaniards share, it's a…

— Anonymous

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private…

— Karl Lagerfeld

“We humans speak many languages; flowers on the contrary speak only one language: The language of beauty!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I speak four languages, and I've seen some of the most spectacular locations in the world and met hundreds of fascinating people.

— Mark Manson

I speak a lot of different languages. But I'm not pro. I'm not pro, pro, pro at it. I speak English, I…

— Jackson Wang

I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.

— Richard H. Davis

Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to…

— Robert Fitzgerald