The collapse of the Tower of Babel is perhaps the central urban myth. It is certainly the most disquieting. In Babylon, the… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to… — Sal Albanese Copy Share Image
“What I want is a beautiful and sophisticated piece of ass that happens to be 'bi.” — Scott Jonathan Nixon Copy Share Image
The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. — Sandra Cisneros 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
Most languages spoken by a few thousand people are so complicated they make your head swim; a Siberian yak herder's language is… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“Portrait of A Human (Sonnet 2938) Books are my jewellery, memories are my assets. Languages are my liquor, cultures are my cocaine.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile… — Pico Iyer 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
“Do you wish to speak in Provençal, French, or Latin? They are all I can manage, I'm afraid." "Any will do," the… — Iain Pears 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
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because… — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on… — S. Ansky Copy Share Image
“For the barrier of language is sometimes a blessed barrier, which only lets pass what is good. Or-to put the thing less… — E.M.Forster Copy Share Image
To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to… — Delmore Schwartz Copy Share Image
Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In fact, my earliest films were in Tamil and Telugu and since then I have been acting in all languages. — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When you're looking at small languages, the population of speakers is so small that there might not be people with the expertise… — Philip M. Parker Copy Share Image
Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
