Quotes About Languages

But the effective way of continuing to exist in a changing environment is to better manage correlations with the external world, that is to say, information: to collect, store, transmit, and elaborate information. For this reason DNA exists, together wih immune systems, sense organs, nervous systems, comolex brains, languages, books, the library of Alexandria, computers and Wikipedia: they maximize the efficiency of information management. The management of correlations favoring survival.

A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.

I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic.

I'm terrible at languages. I'm trying to learn Spanish. I tried to learn French as a kid.

I love English, Spanish, and German football.

I want to position myself as a great singer/songwriter in Korea, then jump off that into different markets. South-east Asia, China, Japan - I've done nothing even though I speak four languages - English, Korean, Spanish, and a little bit of Mandarin.

In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk.

Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.

I speak four languages, and I've seen some of the most spectacular locations in the world and met hundreds of fascinating people.

I am not very good with languages. So, in spite of working in films in 17 different languages, I only follow my passion to act without getting worked up about the language.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

He spoke nine languages. You know some people can just pick up an instrument and play. My father was like that with languages.

Music, like violence, crossed all languages. These were the oldest and most complete ways of communicating that people possessed.

over half the languages in the world, for example, have fewer than five thousand speakers, and over a thousand languages have under a dozen.

I just want to grow as a musician. that's why I do different languages.

My native place is Belgaum and I understand Kannada and have a flavor for acting in South Indian languages.

On a attribué à Al Farabi, autre génie universel, la connaissance de 70 langues.

Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers). How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around). What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.

True, but there was a plaque depicted in the painting, hung around the figure's neck, and on it was writing in Sumerian cuneiform. As you know, in addition to my other studies, I am an amateur necrolinguist - It means the likes to lick the dead, explained Henri. It means he studies dead languages, corrected Lucien.

He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.

Love and hate had their own secret languages, and Mark and Kieran were speaking in them now.

Sea Island blacks spoke in the Gullah dialect of their forebears (a blend of African languages that was a distinctive patois).