Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers. — Estelle 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
Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I've been offered bi-linguals and tri-linguals to be made in Hindi and south languages. — Pranitha Subhash Copy Share Image
I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four languages. — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks,… — Joshua Foer 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
Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught… — David Christian Copy Share Image
“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.” — Mark Abley Copy Share Image
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I am not really missing theatre as I get to act in films, that too in different languages, such as Tamil, Telugu,… — Atul Kulkarni Copy Share Image
“He had realised that it was Clara he loved, and that he loved her in many different ways. (Because there are even… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
“I can read and write in nine different languages, two of which are dead ones and two fictional ones. I can solve… — J.C. Mells Copy Share Image
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
“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
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
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
“But Spanish and English aren't different languages, only extreme dialects of Latin. It's almost possible to translate word for word. Translation from… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“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
The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist. — Upamanyu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
“We all have different languages; but we all really mean the same thing.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There are Hunderds of Languages around the world had a Smile speaks them all.. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages. — Nawal El Saadawi 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
As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Copy Share Image
I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but when you come to America, you speak English. — Melania Trump Copy Share Image
I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German. — Roy Hodgson 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
He was not like Greek fathers. He didn't tell us to get married. My father thought it was very important that we… — Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki Copy Share Image
I don't have any phobias with any language, and I've grown up listening to Anglo-American rock n roll as well as Welsh-language… — Gruff Rhys 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
I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe. — Noam Chomsky 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