Other Languages Quotes
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Other Languages Quotes & Sayings
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That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.
— John W. Campbell
Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.
— Toni Collette
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
There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory. — Dejan Stojanovic
Those who have suffered much are like those who know many languages; they have learned to understand and be understood by all.
— Sophie Swetchine
People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!
— Sergei Bubka
Most of the languages that now exist are almost certain to become extinct within this century.
— John McWhorter
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
— Emma Bonino
Gen, with his genius for languages, was often at a loss for what to say when left with only his own words.
— Ann Patchett
Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.
— Jeff B. Davis
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
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
— Vernor Vinge
I speak two languages, Body and English.
— Mae West
He who has two languages has two souls.
— Quintus Ennius
1,000 out of the world's 6,000 languages, crammed into an area only slightly larger than that of Texas,
— Jared Diamond
Holy" in both biblical languages means separated and set apart for God, consecrated and made over to Him.
— J.I. Packer
If you know two languages, the level of your intelligence is multiplied a hundredfold in other people's eyes. — Bill Cosby
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
— Elias Canetti
Poetry must find ways of breaking distance ... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.
— Giannina Braschi
A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.
— David Crystal
One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
— Naguib Mahfouz
People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.
— Siri Hustvedt
England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!
— Miranda Otto
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
— Victor Hugo
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.
— W. H. Auden
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
— E. V. Lucas
Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.
— NoViolet Bulawayo
She can speak three languages, but she can tell the truth in none of them.
— Philippa Gregory
Languages are like games. You learn the rules for one, and they all work the same way. Like women.
— Haruki Murakami
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
— Miguel De Cervantes
The dance is the mother of all languages.
— Robin G. Collingwood
With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.
— Edmund De Waal
You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English.
— Robert Aickman
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
There is no way to devise an objective and non-arbitrary measure for comparing the overall complexity of any two given languages.
— Guy Deutscher
Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.
— Derek Sivers
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
A man who can speak two languages is worth two men.
— Napoleon Hill
Oh dear white children, casual as birds,Playing among the ruined languages,
So small beside their large confusing words. — W. H. Auden
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
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The first rule of translation: make sure you know at least one of the bloody languages!
— Faiz Ahmad Faiz
so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world
— Lucille Clifton
But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana.
— Eddie Izzard
(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, A man who speaks but one language understands none.
— Orson Scott Card
Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, they contain pure truths, before we cluttered our languages with so many useless words.
— Cassandra Clare
