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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

Maybe they feared that a knowledge of languages would expose me too to the blandishments of Europe, that wonderful, murderous continent. — Amos Oz

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

If you want to conquer civilizations, restructure their languages.
Long time ago, even god used this strategy to rule over mankind. — Toba Beta

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

But while you can always write 'spaghetti code' in a procedural language, object-oriented languages used poorly can add meatballs to your spaghetti. — Andrew Hunt

I wanted to cry at how beautiful that tiny moment was. Couples were like sirens, making their own languages and signs, their own worlds" -Kahlen — Kiera Cass

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

It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one. — Arthur Helps

Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with ... just to screw with my subconscious. — Steven Wright

When it comes to languages, I'm passably fluent in HTML. — Bernie Su

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

The arts, sciences, humanities, physical education, languages and maths all have equal and central contributions to make to a student's education. — Ken Robinson

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

Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually falling, through disuse. — Tom Felton

It is time for dead languages to be quiet. — Natalie Clifford Barney

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad. — Ella Maillart

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. — Alan Perlis

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 do
nothing. — Peter Manseau

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything. — Maya Angelou

Even before I started photography, I began to see that there was a disjunction between available languages and reality. — Gilles Peress

Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity. — Phil Borges

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

I know how to say 'no' in twelve languages. That's enough for a woman. — Sophia Loren

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

At first, we should read with a blitheness practically bordering on superficiality; later on, with a conscientiousness close to distrust. — Kato Lomb

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

The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings. — Ai Weiwei

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 half
languages
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

To know your languages of all languages
is to know your silence.
Petra Hermans — Petra Hermans

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

My motivation for learning Japanese was to translate a chemical patent, a job that I had heroically (i.e., rashly) taken on. — Kato Lomb

A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life. — Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Different languages, the same thoughts; servant to thoughts and their masters. — Dejan Stojanovic

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

God speaks all languages - including yours. What language is God speaking to you? — Max Lucado

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

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge. — Yehuda Amichai

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

It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. — Wade Davis

He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language. — Kato Lomb