Languages Quotes

557 quotes by 475 authors

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry… — Russell Baker
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages,… — J. G. Ballard
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States… — Kate Beckinsale
I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages.… — Bono
You who speak languages, you are such liars. — Orson Scott Card
I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English. — Maya Angelou
Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center… — Corrie Ten Boom
The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of… — Salman Rushdie
what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil… — Thomas Jefferson
We only speak two languages here: English and profanity. — Kevin Constantine
Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last… — Dave Barry
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it… — Yao Ming
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages. — James M. Barrie
Colors speak all languages. — Joseph Addison
I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for experience that I… — Jacob Bronowski
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a… — G. H. Hardy
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. — William Shakespeare
The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel. — Charles Darwin
All around the world there are 230 countries, and among those people I can speak 5 languages. Nevertheless, I can't find the exact word to… — Joo Won

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