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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“English words made only from twenty-six characters? Are English a bit lazy or what? We have fifty thousand characters in Chinese.” — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation. — Amisha Patel Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad,… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I… — Daniel Bruhl Copy Share Image
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I sing in Hungarian. I read Hungarian. I do not pretend to speak Hungarian, but I sing in languages that I have… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself:… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
“La idea de no tener una lengua materna me preocupa. ¿Es como sentirte un nómada dentro de tu propia cabeza? no me… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
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Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“ Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“The spread of languages shouldn't imply the decay of national languages. There are so many literary and historical memories, so many joys… — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different… — Umberto Guidoni Copy Share Image
I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries… — Q'orianka Kilcher Copy Share Image
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“Out here we speak Malspeak, a mangle of English and old languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. Dialects from a time when… — Georgia Clark Copy Share Image
“That so far the material has been dealt with in a rather subjective way provokes the question whether a means can be… — Jennifer K. McArthur Copy Share Image
Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but… — Bill Dedman Copy Share Image
What I look for these days is that I don't have long speeches, the characters gets to sit down a lot, I… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to… — James Salter Copy Share Image
History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Who was Amanda Knox? Was she a fresh-faced honor student from Seattle who met anyone's definition of an all-American girl - attractive,… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they… — Zsa Zsa Gabor Copy Share Image
“Although Swedish is one of the few languages on this Earth that I enjoy the sound of. That and Japanese. French is… — Caspar Vega Copy Share Image
I will never know what it's like to have only one language in my head. I have the pleasure of being able… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything… — John Blair Copy Share Image
The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I… — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
I was drawn to biology and history and, of course, art. And I loved languages. The biggest problem I had is that… — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share Image
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