Language Quote by Frances Mayes

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

— Frances Mayes

“My love for languages and my love for travel really go hand in hand and feed off of each other. There’s no better way…

— Wendy Werneth

“To walk through unknown streets in cities where you are merely learning the language is to force yourself into a new state of hypervigilance.…

— M.B. Dallocchio

In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would…

— Terry Pratchett

“The joy of knowing a foreign language is inexpressible. I find it really difficult to express such joy in my mother tongue.”

— Munia Khan

“Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the…

— Timothy Ferriss

In certain places, not always, there are moments where I tried to convey in English a sense of foreignness. I wanted the reader to…

— Miroslav Penkov

“Languages are like beings: they thrive, take a dive, and need care to survive.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“Thanks to [language], human beings - and we alone - can truly enter and explore the feelings of others. What an extraordinary skill.”

— Naoki Higashida

How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the…

— Herbert Spencer

“I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity”

— Brian Kiteley

“When you travel, you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly,…

— Paulo Coelho