Language Quote by Idra Novey

We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness.

— Robert Kelly

What I'm after is that wakeful state through language that stays alive.

— Anne Waldman

Having an international voice is not really about whether we speak Persian or any other language.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.

— El Anatsui

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

— Juan Cole

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

— Neil Gaiman

You have to be open to dreaming. It's a complicated language, but I'm obsessed with it.

— Alessandro Michele

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried

— Douglas Hyde

I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken…

— Nicole Krauss

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.

— John Abizaid

To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and…

— Gertrude Bell

I wish I was not such a very bad hand at languages. That is one thing I cannot do, that and ride.

— Richard H. Davis