“Spanish—how shall I say this?—is like Portuguese spoken with a speech impediment.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when you answer your Foreign Language teacher in English. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Screw technicolor, red, and foreign languages. I dream in status updates.” — Fierce Dolan Copy Share Image
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language. — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“He who knows no foreign language knows nothing of his own” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I really like acting in French. It's actually quite different for me, from acting in English. It's fun acting in a foreign… — Kristin Scott Thomas 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
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French. — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading. — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us.… — Barbara Ehrenreich 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
“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
Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I have only so many foreign-language neurons. When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German,… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
No one would starve in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders… — Vallabhbhai Patel 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
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
“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
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
I'm pretty optimistic that in the future these kind of films will also be part of the main categories, perhaps not in… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
“It was tough coming to the realization that I wasn’t interested in anything, though realizing it didn’t mean I could then immediately… — Shūichi Yoshida Copy Share Image
People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if… — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
“The requirements of a degree in a STEM field (science, technology, engineering, mathematics), a demanding foreign language, or a rigorous degree in… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
“try to have love for the questions themselves, like locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Do not seek… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wanted to dance and laugh with my friends until midnight, and sometimes I wanted to screen all calls and hide… — Michelle Dalton Copy Share Image
Composing computer programs to solve scientific problems is like writing poetry. You must choose every word with care and link it with… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
“There are human boys here somewhere?” Zoey asked. Aurox’s face scrunched up as he frowned at her. “Not here. Outside—out there. ”… — Kristin Cast 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
“Hear me now or regret it later: Everything you write must be read aloud. Once all the context items are in place,… — Jiro Adachi Copy Share Image
“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational… — Steven Pinker 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
