Languages Quotes
557 quotes by 473 authors
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Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art…
— Edward T. Hall
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Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that…
— Alan Lightman
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My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.
— Naveen Andrews
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The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.
— Upamanyu Chatterjee
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I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed…
— Joshua Foer
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Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science…
— Joshua Foer
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Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible to think bad…
— Larry Wall
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Are you quite sure that all those bells and whistles, all those wonderful facilities of your so called powerful programming languages, belong to the solution…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.
— Rob Pike
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We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose.
— Viktor Yushchenko
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A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.
— David Crystal
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We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you…
— Fred Frith
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You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There's fencing, stage combat, horse riding, motorbike riding, Spanish,…
— Isla Fisher
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I was very adept at acquiring languages.
— Anna Held
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With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time.
— Miguel de Icaza
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The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors…
— Leslie Jamison
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My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead…
— Lawrence Klein
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My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to…
— Stana Katic
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My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am…
— Sara Zarr
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I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures…
— N. Scott Momaday
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