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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
Shockingly tactless," Lady Warford said. "Unfortunately, Longmore can be tactless quite fluently in several languages
— Loretta Chase
I want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane.
— Karen Marie Moning
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
Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
— Emma Bonino
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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
Love and hate had their own secret languages, and Mark and Kieran were speaking in them now.
— Cassandra Clare
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
He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
— Vernor Vinge
It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
I speak two languages, Body and English.
— Mae West
Americans speak few languages, know little about foreign cultures, and remain unconvinced that they need to rectify this.
— Fareed Zakaria
He who has two languages has two souls.
— Quintus Ennius
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
— Marvin Minsky
No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.
— Edward Sapir
It's amazing how insults in most languages sound the same.
— Paul The Apostle
The internet is an amazing medium for languages,
— David Crystal
He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
— Salman Rushdie
You was in all sorts of places, huh?" "Yeah, I was. Saw the world." "What'd you think of it?" "Different languages, same shit.
— Dennis Lehane
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.
— Larry Wall
I've said it a million times: Romance languages lead to premarital sex.
— Stephen Colbert
I have traveled through continents, languages, and time trying to understand all that I am and all that has made me such.
— Leslye Walton
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He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.
— Max Eastman
We humans speak many languages; flowers on the contrary speak only one language: The language of beauty!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Languages shape the way we think, or don't.
— Erik Naggum
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
Shepherds know many mysterious languages; they speak the language of sheep and dogs, language of stars and skies, flowers and herbs.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
A linguist who specialised in the languages of incense and burnt offerings, of moths and radial cremations.
— Benjanun Sriduangkaew
How many languages do we really speak?
— Alfredo Jaar
Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
— Nawal El Saadawi
All translations are made up" opined Vikram, "Languages are different for a reason. You can't move ideas between them without losing something
— G. Willow Wilson
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
— Wade Davis
European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance.
— Cheikh Anta Diop
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
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
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
Oh dear white children, casual as birds,Playing among the ruined languages,
So small beside their large confusing words. — W. H. Auden
A man who can speak two languages is worth two men.
— Napoleon Hill
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
Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.
— Derek Sivers
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
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
You speak English beautifully, which means you can't be English.
— Robert Aickman
With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.
— Edmund De Waal
The dance is the mother of all languages.
— Robin G. Collingwood
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Languages are like games. You learn the rules for one, and they all work the same way. Like women.
— Haruki Murakami
She can speak three languages, but she can tell the truth in none of them.
— Philippa Gregory
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
Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.
— E. V. Lucas
Holy" in both biblical languages means separated and set apart for God, consecrated and made over to Him.
— J.I. Packer
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
(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
Of all the words in all languages I know, the greatest concentration is in the English word I.
— Elias Canetti
1,000 out of the world's 6,000 languages, crammed into an area only slightly larger than that of Texas,
— Jared Diamond
He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood.
— Sherman Alexie
Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.
— Elena Ferrante
Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, they contain pure truths, before we cluttered our languages with so many useless words.
— Cassandra Clare
Poetry must find ways of breaking distance ... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.
— Giannina Braschi
But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana.
— Eddie Izzard
so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world
— Lucille Clifton
