Quotes About Languages

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.

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.

From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

I have been an actor now for 40 years having worked in over 10 countries and three languages.

It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did.

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

Most people don't know what goes on in the intelligence services. Certainly I had very little idea what went on in GCHQ. For me it was a job, a chance to use my languages.

For an actress, the choices are more if one is open to the idea of doing films in different languages.

I have done some 104 films across languages, most of which had action.

I consider myself blessed that I am multi-lingual and now-a-days we all speak at least two-three languages.

Alongside my mispronunciation of hello , good-bye and sorry in seventeen languages, and my ability to recite the Greek alphabet forward and backward (I who have never learned a word of Greek in my life), the phonetic alphabet was one of those secret, random wells of useless knowledge left over from my bookish childhood. I learned it only to amuse myself; its purpose in those days was merely private, so as the years passed I made no particular effort to practice it.

Alfonse invested everything he did with a sense of all-consuming purpose. He knew four languages, had photographic memory, did complex mathematics in his head. He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, since linguistic differences between populations lessen the chance of genetic exchange between them.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

If computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future," he said, "then computation may someday be organized as a public utility, just as the telephone system is a public utility. We can envisage computer service companies whose subscribers are connected to them by telephone lines. Each subscriber needs to pay only for the capacity that he actually uses, but he has access to all programming languages characteristic of a very large system.

Albanian dogs go "ham ham." In Catalan, dogs go "bup bup." The Chinese dogs say "wang wang," the Greek dogs go "gav gav," the Slovenians "hov hov," and the Ukrainians "haf haf." In Iceland, it's "voff," in Indonesia, it's "gong gong," and in Italian, it's "bau bau.

The other Andamanese languages have no known relatives. They have five numbers: one, two, one more, some more, and all. On

Shall I tell you a joke about languages? Abulfaz asked. A joke. Yes, okay. What do you call a Russian who speaks four languages? I don't know. A Zionist. What about a Russian who speaks three languages? I don't know. A spy. And two? ... No? A nationalist. And only one? ... An inter-nationalist.

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

I speak twelve languages. English is the bestest

I have to admit that humans waste a lot of their time - almost all of it - with hypothetical stuff. I could be rich. I could be famous. I could have been hit by that bus. I could have been born with fewer moles and bigger breasts. I could have spent more of my youth learning foreign languages. They must exercise the conditional tense more than any other known life form.