Top 275 Languages Quotes

A lot of linguists in the market, especially interpreters of foreign languages, do not have a great command over the English language, especially if they are translating into English.

London is not just an international financial centre: it is also one of the most ethnically diverse places on earth. Three hundred languages are represented within its boundaries, and – as is true of some other English cities – more than half of London’s inhabitants describe themselves as non-white.

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I’ve been speaking English since I could speak.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don’t just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

I will do films in any of the languages, provided the script is good. The region and the language don’t matter.

Sometimes I am a different character in different languages. I have different enjoyment from them. Sometimes different answers come out of me. Like, I didn’t even know that about me. I get to know myself through different languages, actually.

I did Tamil film, ‘Mehandi Circus.’ I want to do Bangla cinema and other regional and foreign languages.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

When I emerged as a hero, there were times I had continuous hits in Malayalam. I also tasted success as a supporting actor in other languages. But there was a collective effort from a group in the Malayalam film industry to flush me out, which affected my career.

The Royal Opera House? I once had the immense privilege of appearing there and was awed by the air of refinement of those seemingly ethereal beings who floated about in the highest echelons of musical accomplishment, effortlessly producing virtuoso performances in several different languages.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

I’m a professor of comparative literature, among other things, so I’m able to read in a couple of other languages, and I understand that not everyone is, not everyone can, although it is quite stunning how many people do read Spanish in the United States, but moving between languages is also extremely helpful.

When you are a pan-Indian actress, you are doing films in different languages and invariably, you end up not signing films in one language or the other for a brief period.

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

I have acted in Tamil and Telugu, languages that were alien to me. It was then that I got the call to Malayalam.

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks.

I would like to make a film in the four South Indian languages.

It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

English does have a larger vocabulary than other languages because of its history as the primary language of science and its global reach.

I don’t have any connection to Portuguese, but I listened to a lot of music in other languages because I was really into house music; there are all sorts of languages that are featured in house.

I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of ‘Lebensraum’ in dozens of languages around the globe.

After using four different languages on an album, it’s tough to decide which one I’m gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I’m singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

I have been acting for more than 25 years and have worked in all the four Southern languages. But it is in the Kannada films that I got huge recognition and variety of roles.

We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

The European Union cannot be compared to the United States. America is a nation, but Europe is not. Europe is a continent of many different nations with their own identities, traditions and languages. Robbing them of their national democracies does not create a European democracy – it destroys democracy in Europe.

I fell in love with words in all languages, and I read everything I could find, particularly myths and legends and histories and archeology and any novels.

Epic started out with scripting languages in the first generation of the Unreal engine in 1998. I wrote that. There’s a place in my heart that comes along with the simplicity of programming in a scripting language.

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you’re not going to get a chance to learn, so you’ll never really know what was written, only the approximation.

‘Gulabo Sitabo’ is the biggest release for me. The film is going to 203 countries simultaneously and it is successfully being subtitled in 20 languages including Portuguese, German, Spanish, Russian, French and many more.

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

The WWE is a company that’s in the world. There are many languages. There’s India, there’s Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, many languages.

Not that I did not have any other skills, but I loved teaching students, sharing with them my knowledge in sciences, maths or languages.

I have a weird obsession with people who can speak multiple languages. I’d love to be able to do that.

For ‘Rakht Charitra,’ I had to gain and lose weight. I simultaneously shot the film in three languages – Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.

I am not familiar with Telugu, Tamil or Malayalam and tend to feel they are foreign languages to me.

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.

To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.

I am intrigued with the shapes people choose as their symbols to create a language. There is within all forms a basic structure, an indication of the entire object with a minimum of lines that becomes a symbol. This is common to all languages, all people, all times.

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

In ‘Solo,’ I play a girl, who is full of life. Since it is a bilingual, the character has two names in two languages.

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.

South Africa is really diverse, with many cultures and 11 official languages, so there are lots of different Christmas traditions.

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don’t have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don’t have children who are overweight.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

American Sign Language is a language. It’s fun to learn, and it’s different from other languages because you use your hands, you use your face, your facial expressions, and there is also an incredible culture that comes with it and an amazing community too, and through that, we can support each other.

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you’re able to think.

My parents have a brilliant ear for languages and mimicry and accents, which I think I’ve inherited – that I can listen to things and pick them up.

Indian films are like our food or our sense of dress or our languages: there’s a great variety, and it changes every 100 miles, but there is something in common, a national Indian essence, that binds them all together.

Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has ‘sold out’ has succeeded, but an artist that has ‘sold out’ has failed.