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
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 can swear in sixty-seven different languages. But I can apologize in only three, which means I could get beat up in… — Matt Greene 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
“my grandfather was an ordinary British citizen in the time of British Raj. He used to have Bengali friends from whom I… — Fahmid Hassan Prohor 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
What I look for these days is that I don't have long speeches, the characters gets to sit down a lot, I… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to… — James Salter 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
Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials… — Jaquelin T. Robertson Copy Share Image
The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite… — Tom Wlaschiha Copy Share Image
Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt. Sure, we all feel it. But we also… — Kris Carr Copy Share Image
There is a diversity of thought and philosophy, diversity of languages and dialects, diversity of political spectrum, and there's a diversity of… — John Liu 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
My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I… — Daniel Bruhl Copy Share Image
“La idea de no tener una lengua materna me preocupa. ¿Es como sentirte un nómada dentro de tu propia cabeza? no me… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Conservatism is rooted in preservation; progressivism advances alteration. These are different love languages. These languages turn on your view of change itself:… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at languages at school - I got… — Nathalie Emmanuel Copy Share Image
When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are… — Orhan Pamuk 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
If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Languages like English, Spanish, and Chinese are healthy languages. They exist in spoken, written, and signed forms, and they're used by hundreds… — David Crystal Copy Share Image
After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking… — Feist 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
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
But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
“Though we were forbidden to speak anything but French, the teacher would occasionally use us to practice any of her five fluent… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians,… — Fulcher of Chartres 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
The way that I approached numbers, think about them, the same as for language as well-acquiring vocabulary, understanding the grammar, the structures… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
