“Then the movie started. It was in a foreign language and had subtitles, which was fun because I had never read a… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Spanish—how shall I say this?—is like Portuguese spoken with a speech impediment.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used to say hello in a foreign language. Like most great words, it’d also have synonyms. One such… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“The conversation of the gods! - I didn't resent or feel aggrieved because I couldn't understand it. I was the smallest of… — L.P. Hartley Copy Share Image
“I try, but somehow I am always the woman in the wrong line. Lines are like a foreign language. You have to… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
Happiness is the most natural thing in the world when you have it, and the slowest, strangest, most impossible thing when you… — Dan Wells Copy Share Image
My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Think about any foreign language you’ve learned (or attempted to). What’s the first thing you learn? Usually how to say “Hello, my… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The things you leave school knowing - some dates and long division - so much of it has been of no use… — Jane Asher Copy Share Image
“I have since tried out this human-beings-as-nothing-but-radio-receivers theory on Paul Slazinger, and he toyed with it some. "So Green River Cemetery is… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“To say exactly what one means, even to one's own private satisfaction, is difficult. To say exactly what one means and to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language. — John Brown Copy Share Image
Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was.… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
“I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
