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That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.
— John W. Campbell
People think that other international languages are smarter and more business wise. But they have to understand that we have to preserve our culture.
— Enock Maregesi
I want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane.
— Karen Marie Moning
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory. — Dejan Stojanovic
Learn to say "please" and "thank you" in multiple languages.
— Steve Maraboli
Music is all about transporting people; speaking a language which languages fail to express.
— A.R. Rahman
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
— Sophie Swetchine
If we could talk to the animals, learn their languages, maybe take an animal degree ...
— Rex Harrison
I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Most of the languages that now exist are almost certain to become extinct within this century.
— John McWhorter
In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.
— Itzhak Perlman
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.
— Marjane Satrapi
Gen, with his genius for languages, was often at a loss for what to say when left with only his own words.
— Ann Patchett
I come from a place where you don't need to talk all the time. There are sign languages you learn.
— Warwick Thornton
A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.
— Matthew Lesko
My grandfather was an ordinary British citizen in the time of British Raj. He used to have Bengali friends from whom I learnt Bengali.
— Fahmid Hassan Prohor
I would love to learn other languages, maybe French? My uncle speaks German so maybe also German? Chinese seems to be too difficult.
— Rafael Nadal
I think it's fair to say that I don't pick up languages. If anything, I roll around in them gracelessly and pray that something sticks.
— Elizabeth Little
You have this preconceived notion of him [Sly Stallone] as a big, tough guy, but he speaks four languages and he likes to watercolor.
— Rachael Leigh Cook
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
— Vernor Vinge
Americans speak few languages, know little about foreign cultures, and remain unconvinced that they need to rectify this.
— Fareed Zakaria
From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.
— Daniel Tammet
Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with ... just to screw with my subconscious.
— Steven Wright
I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.
— Elena Roger
I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.
— Yigal Azrouel
It is interesting that Nehru fought and kept saying that if you break India into languages, there is no end to it.
— Shekhar Kapur
Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.
— Roger Bacon
A brain is like a muscle, a serial connection that you should train everyday; if you don't use it, you loose it
— Ana Claudia Antunes
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
— James M. Barrie
It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.
— John Biggins
In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.
— Carey Williams
It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.
— Alan W. Watts
There was an otherworldly quality about him, the aura of one privy to secret communiques in forgotten languages.
— James K. Morrow
It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course.
— David Christian
I've spent enough time studying languages to know that almost any phrase can have two meanings
— Ally Carter
To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German.
— Emperor Charles V
Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.
— Andrew Dalby
What I want is a beautiful and sophisticated piece of ass that happens to be 'bi.
— Scott Jonathan Nixon
I had been a religion major, with a focus on scriptural languages, and upon receiving my degree, felt qualified to donothing. — Peter Manseau
Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality.
— Gilles Peress
Languages are not strangers to on another.
— Walter Benjamin
The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.
— Upamanyu Chatterjee
There is thin line between fun and disrespect to a language. Poking once or twice is fun but excess is disrespect.
— Pankaj Gupta
It seems the British are born to hoist their flag over every nation where the sun rises and never learn their language.
— Chloe Thurlow
I've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.
— Kevin Drum
Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.
— G. Willow Wilson
I've said it a million times: Romance languages lead to premarital sex.
— Stephen Colbert
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
— Larry Wall
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.
— Edward Sapir
He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.
— Sherman Alexie
I didn't know at first that there were two languages in Canada.Ijustthoughtthatthere was oneway tospeak to my father and another to talk to my mother.
— Louis St. Laurent
Language communicates in terms of what is already know; it chokes up when asked to deal with entirely unprecedented.
— Vivek Shanbhag
Luckily, languages are like musical instruments: the more you know, the easier it is to pick up new ones.
— Patrick Rothfuss
She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages ...
— Salman Rushdie
Holy" in both biblical languages means separated and set apart for God, consecrated and made over to Him.
— J.I. Packer
Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Poetry must find ways of breaking distance ... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.
— Giannina Braschi
If God granted me a wish today, I would ask for a talent to read, write and speak all languages of the world!
— Shikha Kaul
Betty Snyder, who, under her married name, Betty Holberton, went on to become a pioneer programmer who helped develop the COBOL and Fortran languages,
— Walter Isaacson
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.
— W. H. Auden
There is no way to devise an objective and non-arbitrary measure for comparing the overall complexity of any two given languages.
— Guy Deutscher
I would like to write a suicide note in three and a halflanguages
and travel south on a Thursday towards
some form of life outside of earth — Eric Gamalinda
With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.
— Edmund De Waal
Talk to yourself in two languages - what do I fear and what do I love - in order to balance the body and the soul.
— Peter Shepherd
He was not like Greek fathers. He didn't tell us to get married. My father thought it was very important that we travel, learn languages, be educated.
— Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki
A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life.
— Herbert Beerbohm Tree
The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.
— Terence McKenna
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
— E. V. Lucas
To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.
— George Eliot
Only 8000 different words appear in the Hebrew Bible, compared to the 20,000 or more that the average adult needs to know in most languages.
— Robert Lane Greene
Three languages - the video, the music and the live performance - are awesome to bring together.
— Planningtorock
He wished for access to all the world's languages at once, for then he would have a better word for how he felt and what she was.
— Julie Anne Long
If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.
— Robert W. Floyd
In some Native languages the term for plants translates to "those who take care of us.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer
I have traveled through continents, languages, and time trying to understand all that I am and all that has made me such.
— Leslye Walton
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
— Nawal El Saadawi
