Languages Quotes

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The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. — Jorge Luis Borges
I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence. — Neil Gaiman
Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who… — HÃ©lder CÃ¢mara
Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages… — Lloyd Alexander
The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other.… — Philip Pullman
Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man seven different ways with her bare hands, she has no idea… — Ally Carter
Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. — KatÃ³ Lomb
Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from… — Miguel de Cervantes
He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language. — KatÃ³ Lomb
I want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane. — Karen Marie Moning
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you want to learn.… — Robert A. Heinlein
We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression. — Charles Taylor
But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs,… — Robin Hobb
Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague. — Salman Rushdie
It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore… — Hugh Laurie
He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say â€“ what good are they? — Philippa Gregory
I have no words. Sixteen languages, but no words. -Vishous — J R Ward
Thatâ€™s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they… — Rachel Cohn

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