Languages Quotes

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My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four… — Marjane Satrapi
The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I chose 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective,' or I'll say it chose me, and it was an absolute blessing, for the experience of being in Africa… — Jill Scott
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think… — John Millington Synge
From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several… — Daniel Tammet
It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages. — Kristin Scott Thomas
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' — J.R.R. Tolkien
In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery,… — Ivanka Trump
The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of… — Giambattista Vico
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. — Booker T. Washington
My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that… — Arabella Weir
I speak two languages, Body and English. — Mae West
I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just… — Nicole Krauss
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different… — Albert Einstein
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct… — Amy Tan
What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several… — Amin Maalouf
It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those… — Markus Zusak
So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It… — Haruki Murakami
It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many… — Sydney J. Harris

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