Languages Quotes · Page 8

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

— Edward Sapir

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, my wife speaks five languages: Russian, English, French, Italian and, out of self-defense, Spanish. I watched her…

— Cheech Marin

I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a…

— Lee Van Cleef

Talk to yourself in two languages - what do I fear and what do I love - in order to balance the…

— Anonymous

Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects…

— Ferran Adria

I speak a lot of different languages. But I'm not pro. I'm not pro, pro, pro at it. I speak English, I…

— Jackson Wang

I speak four languages, and I've seen some of the most spectacular locations in the world and met hundreds of fascinating people.

— Mark Manson

I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.

— Richard H. Davis

“ Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“My love for languages and my love for travel really go hand in hand and feed off of each other. There’s no…

— Wendy Werneth

I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that…

— Joshua Roman

And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different…

— Umberto Guidoni

“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

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

“Out here we speak Malspeak, a mangle of English and old languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. Dialects from a time when…

— Georgia Clark

“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

“If the goal you've set for yourself has a 100 percent chance of success, then frankly you aren't aiming high enough.”

— Benny Lewis

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any…

— Joshua Foer

I learned to say 'hello' in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Indonesian, and Italian - languages of the countries I've visited.

— Suzuka Nakamoto

I doubt that national languages will disappear. In fact, to some extent they're becoming more diverse, like in Europe.

— Noam Chomsky

It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because…

— Ron Silver

Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.

— Devendra Banhart

I have always wondered why I don't get as many good roles in Malayalam as I do in other languages.

— Shamna Kasim

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

— Matthew Morrison

Somehow you get past languages. I don't speak Mandarin. I don't speak fluent Italian. I don't speak German. But it's amazing how…

— B. J. Armstrong

What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make…

— Grace Paley

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.

— Anonymous

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to…

— Amish Tripathi

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

— Edmund de Waal

“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.”

— Mark Abley

In most Native languages, most Indigenous languages, Blackfeet included, there are no gendered pronouns. There is no he/she, there's only they.

— Lily Gladstone

Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict.

— Avigdor Lieberman

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast.

— Mark Pagel

I consider myself blessed that I am multi-lingual and now-a-days we all speak at least two-three languages.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

— Cary Fukunaga

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

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

— Larry Wall

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

I am not really missing theatre as I get to act in films, that too in different languages, such as Tamil, Telugu,…

— Atul Kulkarni