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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

she likes the sound of languages other than English. — Ken Liu

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks. — Jose Rizal

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

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in. — Jimenez Lai

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

I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages. — Azim Premji

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

Film is one if three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. — Frank Capra

I'm a passionate Welshman. I have a culinary relationship with language: I taste what I say because I have two languages, and each informs the other. — Rhys Ifans

I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit. — Lizzo

God is God, but he has various names in different languages, and each strand of monotheistic religion has multiple ways of describing the godhead. — Jay Parini

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

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them. — Dorothy Parker

If you know two languages, the level of your intelligence
is multiplied a hundredfold in other people's eyes. — Bill Cosby

A special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one. — Evan Esar

Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I. — Elias Canetti

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

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

Poetry must find ways of breaking distance ... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds. — Giannina Braschi

I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar. — Andy Lau

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

There is as little likelihood of squeezing an adult into the intellectual framework of their childhood as there is into their first pair of pajamas. — Kato Lomb

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 half
languages
and travel south on a Thursday towards
some form of life outside of earth — Eric Gamalinda

As you can see, I speak many languages, including the language of sex. — Kristen Schaal

There is no way to devise an objective and non-arbitrary measure for comparing the overall complexity of any two given languages. — Guy Deutscher

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS. — Bill Hayden

We all arrive by different streets, by unequal languages, at Silence. — Pablo Neruda

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

Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote. — Elena Ferrante

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning. — Michael Gove