Languages Quotes

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The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects.… — Ishmael Beah
Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express. — A. R. Rahman
Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so… — Pierre Trudeau
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages… — Charles Caleb Colton
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided… — Charles Caleb Colton
It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong;… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to… — Stephen Leacock
I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only… — Jodie Foster
It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning. — Michael Gove
From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that… — Lady Gregory
I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy. — Ursula K. Le Guin
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking… — Joseph Conrad
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. — Eugene V. Debs
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages. — Jacques Derrida
I had to know at least two languages. — Novak Djokovic
Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is… — Umberto Eco
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not? — Gloria Estefan
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like… — Joshua Foer
I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication… — Keith Haring

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