Language Quote by Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language.”

— Terry Jones

“I knew I seemed a fairly unlikely candidate for an adventure into the unknown. And secretly I doubted that I had what it took,…

— Jamie Zeppa

“I picked up a new language a few months ago. It was just laying on the ground, dirty, so I scooped it up and…

— Jarod Kintz

“And I could hardly have resigned myself to the simple, vulgar, direct debauchery of a clerk and have endured all the filthiness of it.…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.”

— John Green

“She had no patience with foreign accents.”

— Anne Tyler

“You cannot talk when you first arrive. It helps you to listen.”

— Mitch Albom

“but you had a point about language. When you get right down to it, it’s a work-around. Like trying to describe dreams with smoke…

— Peter Watts

“At every moment where language can't go, that's your mind.”

— Bodhidharma

“Men are strange. It's almost unexpected to find they speak English.”

— Christopher Fry

“We can't really know what a pleasure it is to run in our own language until we're forced to stumble in someone else's.”

— Gregory David Roberts

“I was not born with English in my pocket.”

— Santosh Kalwar