Languages Quotes

557 quotes by 461 authors

I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part,… — Mahmoud Darwish
Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint… — Grant Morrison
I think my ideal man would speak many languages. He would speak Ibo and Yoruba and English and French and all of the others. He… — Chris Cleave
...I canâ€™t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five… — Robin Sloan
They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had… — Margaret Mitchell
Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are… — Sue Monk Kidd
Love life first, then march through the gates of each season; go inside nature and develop the discipline to stop destructive behavior; learn tenderness toward… — Gretel Ehrlich
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Use your memory!… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I am so used to hints and mixed messages, saying things that might mean what they sort of sound like they mean. Games and contests,… — David Levithan
Eyes...They speak all languages. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yet it is trueâ€”skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the… — Susanna Clarke
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description. — Alan Watts
They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and… — Kate Braverman
They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she… — Lois McMaster Bujold
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory. — Dejan Stojanovic
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. — Laini Taylor
life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies all in different languages. — Frank O'Hara
We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead,… — Jared Diamond
The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in… — Gregory Maguire
With the cure, relationships are all the same, and rules and expectations are defined. Without the cure, relationships must be reinvented every day, languages constantly… — Lauren Oliver

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