Languages Quotes

557 quotes by 475 authors

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them. — Dorothy Parker
Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with... just to screw with my subconscious. — Steven Wright
You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about… — Richard P. Feynman
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and… — Alan Watts
Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four. — Terry Pratchett
With wine and being lost, with less and less of both: I rode through the snow, do you read me I rode God far--I rode… — Paul Celan
you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never… — Cornelia Funke
There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a physical, tangible, sensate… — Susanna Kaysen
If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for… — Wade Davis
I have become interested in languages which I cannot make up, which I cannot create or even create in: I have become interested in languages… — Kathy Acker
What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice… — Annie Proulx
Now we'd known each other for two years, the side of my calf was touching his shins, and his stomach was against my ribs. He… — Nicole Krauss
There are stories, like maps that agree... too consistent among too many languages and histories to be only wishful thinking.... It is always a hidden… — Thomas Pynchon
An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in… — Seth Grahame-Smith
I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world. — Miranda July
Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed! — Eddie Izzard
I have stayed these years in my hovel because of you. I have taught myself languages because of you. I have made my body strong… — William Goldman
Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. — William Shakespeare

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