Failure Quote by Woody Allen

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

— Kevin Kline

That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

— John W. Campbell

One of the first issues I dealt with was the struggle to find a language, to find my own words.

— Rirkrit Tiravanija

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary…

— Helen Barrett Montgomery

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for…

— Red Smith

Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers…

— Steven Pinker

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

— Anna Held

There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.

— Lisa Kleypas

“The main thing I want to show in this chapter is that there is no magic involved in building your own language. I’ve often…

— Marijn Haverbeke

I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they…

— P.D. Ouspensky

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary…

— Helen Barrett Montgomery

My English wasn't that good at first, and I made mistakes, especially with the slang.

— Morten Andersen