A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's… — Beatrix Campbell 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
No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
“He also knew that journalists dread having to digest a long official report when writing against a tight deadline—all the more so… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
His scowl returned. "Why, if they're supposed to be Greek, are all of them speaking with an English accent?" She laughed. "Didn't… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“You know the people who think seeing it in a picture is like seeing it in real life? Well, it’s not. Because… — Renee Carlino Copy Share Image
I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people,… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I never know the heron as it flies at first. What is the slow, wide-winged figure in the sky? Then I see… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I'm not going to play someone too far from who I am. Although I did a movie where I played a killer,… — Greg Grunberg Copy Share Image
It's now up to the states to figure out how they implement that definition of a well-rounded education, in other words, where… — Elizabeth Blair Lee 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
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
“The Word Wonder or dream from distant land I carried to my country's strand And waited till the twilit norn Had found… — 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
When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old.… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“No matter where I go in the world, although I can't speak any foreign language, I don't feel out of place. I… — Akira Kurosawa Copy Share Image
My dad felt oppressed by the hearing man. All his friends would express to me sometimes how oppressive their own country was… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
“If you want to know what's in motherhood for you, as a woman, then - in truth - it's nothing you couldn't… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“Would you rather take a sensible student, or someone who speaks a foreign language well?’ My” — Chetan Bhagat 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
Imagine, there is almost no possibility for a foreign language film to be distributed in America right now. That doesn't just make… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
To observe the world carefully, to write a lot and often, on a schedule if necessary, to use the dictionary a lot,… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image