Top 1200 Different Languages Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

It is nice to know different languages and cultures because it opens up your window to life.

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

People just think Africa is this one thing. So if you're from Nigeria, then you're the same as somebody from Kenya; not realizing that within Nigeria, right, we have 250 different ethnic groups, right? Two hundred and fifty different languages.

It may seem that I am doing films in different languages, which of course I am, but more importantly, I am performing different characters and every character has so much to teach. It makes me happy that I am associated with so many film industries.

There is a language barrier between vets and the civilian population. They speak different 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?

I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages with a little bit more difficulty.

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

From 'Embracing the Wide Sky', I went to the States, to Canada and to different parts of Europe as well. I gave interviews in several languages.

To me, poetry is spoken - not exclusively, but there's a mix of languages in it. That's what I liked about 'For the Confederate Dead;' it has many different tones to it.

I think it's really important that we have diversity - whether it's different languages, cultures - be involved in film and in the arts.

The main languages out of which web applications are built - whether it's Perl or Python or PHP or any of the other languages - those are all open source languages. So the infrastructure of the web is open source... the web as we know it is completely dependent on open source.

At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.

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

A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful - many more.

I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.

One of my ongoing projects is to expand third-eye technology whereby two people can watch two different things on a screen or type in two different languages on the same surface - all they have to do is wear a pair of hi-tech glass spectacles.

If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.

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

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

India is a conglomeration of different states with various languages, tradition, and culture for each.

Acting in different languages doesn't stop you from growing; on the contrary, for an artiste, it helps a lot.

I think the thing that allows me to go into so many markets is that I can speak all the languages. Korean, Chinese, English, whatever. Thank you, my parents, for teaching me all the languages.

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

Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.

Go is an attempt to combine the safety and performance of statically typed languages with the convenience and fun of dynamically typed interpretative languages.

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.

I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.

I enjoy singing in different languages, be it Telugu or Bengali. I would like to sing in Malayalam too.

I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.

Religions have always adopted rich symbolic languages to signify the different aspects of their respective forms of faith and mythology.

When I hear myself speak French, I look at myself differently. Certain aspects will feel closer to the way I feel or the way I am and others won't. I like that - to tour different sides of yourself. I often find when looking at people who are comfortable in many languages, they're more comfortable talking about emotional stuff in a certain language or political stuff in another and that's really interesting, how people relate to those languages.

Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also suffered religious persecution.

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

Language is very deceiving. In certain languages, there is certain vocabulary that doesn't exist in other languages. It totally changes how people feel about things.

Your voice sounds completely different in different languages. It alters your personality somehow. I don't think people get the same feeling from you. The rhythm changes. Because the rhythm of the language is different, it changes your inner rhythm and that changes how you process everything.

We can appreciate each other's languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

I may be working in different languages, but the sentiments of audiences remain the same.

I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.

More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.

English is big business and languages are dying as never before. Is there a connection? Is this another manifestation of McDonaldisation – the undesirable face of globalization? Do we want to lose the variety of languages and all the rich culture that comes with them?

Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort has gone toward devising the languages of interaction.

The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language.

There's many scripting languages in the world, Perl is a little bit special because it is based more on some ideas from the way natural languages work.

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

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

It's better to live a world where you can hear different languages and sensibilities.

It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.

There are two languages that I love: Farsi and Panjabi. Because the depth of Sufi thought in these two languages cannot be found in any other language.

life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies all in different languages.

I have been singing since childhood and, over the years, sang songs from different languages from India and across the globe.