Quotes About Languages

Once you know the Romance languages, singing in those languages is so sexy and sensual. I do have a global audience, so why not?

As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.

The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings.

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy.

Like a lot of New Yorkers, I assumed that I knew all about the U.N. I was shocked to find out it's not like anything I had in mind. There are only six languages accepted there. It's considered international territory.

From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages including, as he puts it, the language of flattery and essentially, to be able to turn people to her will - really a great political genius, in that respect.

Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die.

But change proves that you are still alive. Change often measures our tolerance for folk different from ourselves. Can we accept their languages, their customs, their garments, and their foods into our own lives? If we can, then we form bonds, bonds that make wars less likely. If we cannot, if we believe that we must do things as we have always done them, then we must either fight to remain as we are, or die.

She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages …

For economic safety for the future, you must have multiple skills and languages. Success is basically being the best that you can be.

There are no dangers, there are only obstacles. I've found that word in all languages, but I've never understood it, and, if I were king, I'd have it deleted as absurd and useless.

Mais, pour lire les auteurs étrangers, je ne sais ni le grec, ni l'anglais, ni l'allemand.   - Parbleu  ! la belle affaire, vous apprendrez ces langues-là.   - Comment  ?   - Je n'en sais rien. Mais retenez ceci : on apprend toujours ce que l'on veut apprendre ;

Kay and Beverly were a disappointment to me. They worked hard at Modern Languages, but their conversation and preoccupations seemed hardly different from those of girls who might work in banks or offices.

Being a young programmer today must be awful—you can choose 20 different programming languages, dozens of framework and operating systems and you're paralyzed by choice. There was no paralysis of choice then. You just start doing it because the decision as to which language and things is just made—there's no thinking about what you should do, you just go and do it.

Los predicadores puritanos en general tenían un buen cimiento en los idiomas bíblicos y la enseñanza clásica.

I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to try to learn at least one other language. So my parents really encourage it in the house. Chinese would be really great to learn - like Mandarin or Cantonese. Portuguese would be incredible.

I like to travel, and I would love to be fluent in at least four languages.

The people of the coastal lowlands have their own languages, related to Hittite.

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

Talent comes from education you had, languages you know and finally from skills you gain in your life.

books that Uncle bought in Odessa or acquired in Heidelberg, books that he discovered in Lausanne or found in Berlin or Warsaw, books he ordered from America and books the like of which exist nowhere but in the Vatican Library, in Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, classical and modern Greek, Sanskrit, Latin, medieval Arabic, Russian, English, German, Spanish, Polish, French, Italian, and languages and dialects I had never even heard of, like Ugaritic and Slovene, Maltese and Old Church Slavonic.

Maybe they feared that a knowledge of languages would expose me too to the blandishments of Europe, that wonderful, murderous continent.