Languages Quotes

557 quotes by 473 authors

I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish… — Sebastian Arcelus
Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all. — Louis Kronenberger
People who speak the same language can hate one another as easily as can people who speak unrelated languages. — Peter Farb
Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and… — Maturin Murray Ballou
Talk to yourself in two languages - what do I fear and what do I love - in order to balance the body and the… — Peter Shepherd
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. — Jean de la Bruyere
Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are… — Dalai Lama
If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through… — Salman Rushdie
If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree... — Rex Harrison
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to… — Harry Mathews
The benefits of becoming fluent in a foreign tongue are as underestimated as the difficulty is overestimated. Thousands of theoretical linguists will disagree, but I… — Tim Ferriss
Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people. — Stephen Harper
The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a storybook, Hollywood version… — Frederick Lenz
When I [first] went to university, I was doing foreign languages, because I had done them since I was 13 years old. I had done… — Nick Offerman
Choose one thing and become a master of it. Choose a second thing and become a master of that. When you become a master of… — Justine Musk
English is big business and languages are dying as never before. Is there a connection? Is this another manifestation of McDonaldisation â€“ the undesirable face… — Patricia Ryan
Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in… — Chuck Thompson
If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing… — Guido van Rossum
In my daily work, I work on very large, complex, distributed systems built out of many Python modules and packages. The focus is very similar… — Guido van Rossum

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