Languages Quotes

557 quotes by 475 authors

People in places many of us never heard of, whose names we can't pronounce or even spell, are speaking up for themselves. They speak in… — Hubert H. Humphrey
You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting… — Israel Zangwill
I'm pretty good with languages. I know a bit of French and actually want to live in France some day so that I can get… — Juliana Hatfield
I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages. — David Altmejd
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. — Alan Perlis
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation… — Joseph Conrad
Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by… — Harold Bloom
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I. — Elias Canetti
The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other. — Richard Leakey
National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry. — Edward Sapir
Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer. — Yuri Milner
I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling. — Chris Marker
I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad. — Ella Maillart
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch… — Ferdinand de Saussure
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally… — Ferdinand de Saussure
According to the United Nations' latest count, of the approximately 3,000 languages spoken in the world today, only some 78 have a literature. Of those… — Barry Sanders
I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The… — Stephen Colbert
In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was… — Robert Burchfield
There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge. — Yehuda Amichai

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