Languages Quotes

557 quotes by 473 authors

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
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
My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent. — Naveen Andrews
The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist. — Upamanyu Chatterjee
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
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
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
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
Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic. — Rob Pike
We cannot be divided either by the languages we speak, by the faiths we profess or by the political views we choose. — Viktor Yushchenko
A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread. — David Crystal
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
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
I was very adept at acquiring languages. — Anna Held
With .NET once an API is published it's available to all programming languages at the same time. — Miguel de Icaza
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
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
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
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
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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