Quotes of: Languages Keyword

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Lily Tomlin

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.

Marc Anthony

I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.

Maya Angelou

People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read the language.

Mithun Chakraborty

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

Meister Eckhart

Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.

Martin Freeman

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Max Frisch

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

Ross MacDonald

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.

Robert Stack

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

Roselyn Sanchez

Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever.

Shannon L. Alder

Only through action, through living, can we escape from the prison of thought and language.

Marty Rubin

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

Naveen Andrews

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Noam Chomsky

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.

Nadine Labaki

Love is the only language that everyone understands without any word or interpretation.

Debasish Mridha

[N]o language has ever had a word for a virgin man.

Our Oriental Heritage

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Robert Morgan

Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.

Ferran Adria