Foreign Language Quotes
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Foreign Language Quotes & Sayings
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
MY FRIEND: SO DO YOU TAKE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS?ME: SURE DO HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST 13 YEARS.
MY FRIEND: COOL WHAT LANGUAGE?
ME: MATH. — KanyaACoffman
The records were in Danish, sadly, but a foreign language was no obstacle at five a.m. with a healthy buzz going.
— Lars Emmerich
My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.
— Deb Caletti
I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.
— John Milton
A werewolf. He said the word like he was learning a foreign language and wanted to get the accent right.
— Tielle St. Clare
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
— Anthony Marra
Childhood is played out in a foreign language and our memory of it is a Constance Garnett translation.
— Rabih Alameddine
The ability to communicate scorn should be the true test of fluency in any language.
— Jennifer DuBois
His father said nothing. Instead, he looked straight at Tengo as if he were reading a bulletin written in a foreign language.1Q84, Murakami — Haruki Murakami
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
words in a foreign language never wound us like words in the language to which we're born. But
— Garth Greenwell
Writing in a foreign language - has brought me to the cries of the women silently rebelling in my youth, to my own true origins.
— Assia Djebar
I'd studied Latin for five years now, which meant that I could, on rare occasions, actually translate something.
— Kate Hattemer
I've had Republicans come to me and say, 'Tell me how I should talk to young people!' as if it's some foreign language or something.
— Aaron Schock
The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.
— Deniz Gamze Erguven
Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place.
— Vallabhbhai Patel
Kethry had once described summoning as being like balancing on a rooftree while screaming an epic poem in a foreign language at the top of your lungs.
— Mercedes Lackey
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
These days we are experiencing an unprecedented Anglo-Saxon bias against foreign terms.
— Thorsten J. Pattberg
we seem to be on a constant quest to keep America a country of citizens who can only talk to one another
— Kari Martindale
Then the movie started. It was in a foreign language and had subtitles, which was fun because I had never read a movie before.
— Stephen Chbosky
While 'Babel' is a foreign-language film in some countries, in others, it is a local film.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Bad people? What kind of bad people? Members of the Church of Satan? Insurance salesmen? People who don't speak English?
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
We have strong evidence today that studying a foreign language has a ripple effect, helping to improve student performance in other subjects.
— Richard Riley
When I try to write in English, I feel like a bird without wings still trying to fly.
— Debasish Mridha
I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
— Bayard Taylor
I think it's very hard to direct foreign language actors, but Carl Rinsch found a great way. A special super visional way.
— Hiroyuki Sanada
Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.
— Philip-Lorca DiCorcia
My limitations are - I'm not Meryl Streep. I'm not playing anything in a foreign language, or anything too far from who I am.
— Greg Grunberg
The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
One must not be shy where language is concerned.
— Ann Patchett
Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer.
— Marilyn Horne
For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
— Fabrice Luchini
Trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language she'd studied all too briefly.
— Cassandra Clare
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning,
— Yehuda Amichai
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
— Craig Thompson
French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
— Aravind Adiga
The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.
— Timothy Ferriss
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
— David Mitchell
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Dolce far niente: the pleasure of doing anything
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.
— Theodor Adorno
Don't you know how, in talking a foreign language, even fluently, one says half the time not what one wants to but what one can?
— Edith Wharton
Clary looked at Jace closely, trying to read his face. It was like a book written in a foreign language that she'd studies all too briefly.
— Cassandra Clare
What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.
— Isamu Akasaki
A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it
— Christopher Morley
The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought and feeling.
— Havelock Ellis
