“ In Japanese and Italian, the response to [How are you?] is I'm fine, and you? In German it's answered with a sigh and a slight pause, followed by Not so good. David Sedaris
“ The gospel of the glory of Christ spreads better and flourishes more because of 6,500 languages, not in spite of them. John Piper
“ We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we can learn it like any other, including our own. We have to learn our own language twice, firs… Mortimer J. Adler
“ Love and hate had their own secret languages, and Mark and Kieran were speaking in them now. Cassandra Clare
“ Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters. Vera Nazarian
“ If the goal you've set for yourself has a 100 percent chance of success, then frankly you aren't aiming high enough. Benny Lewis
“ With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere. Edmund de Waal
“ My love for languages and my love for travel really go hand in hand and feed off of each other. There’s no better way to learn a language than by immersing yourself in a culture where it’s spoken, and… Wendy Werneth
“ When he is dissected after his death," a disrespectful interpreter said of a foreign dignitary, "a million predicates will be found in his stomach: those he swallowed in the past decades without sayin… Kató Lomb
“ The fort.Where the pair stored their painted scenes and books of made-up languages, their two-man band, and the tiny matchbox bed plus accessories that they made in case, someday, their experiments in… Michelle Cuevas
“ Thanks. Seriously, you must have better things to do with your life than waste it on the hopeless?''I've already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?''Elvish. Michelle Hodkin
“ A brain is like a muscle, a serial connection that you should train everyday; if you don't use it, you loose it Ana Claudia Antunes
“ We Americans are reluctant to learn a foreign language of our own species, let alone another species. But imagine the possibilities. Imagine the access we would have to different perspectives, the thi… Robin Wall Kimmerer
“ Philosophers call this state of isolation and disconnection “species loneliness”—a deep, unnamed sadness stemming from estrangement from the rest of Creation, from the loss of relationship. As our hum… Robin Wall Kimmerer
“ But I cant' translate it the right way, that's why I always use so many foreign languages around you, because there're some things that simply can't translate, that are beautiful when you read them th… DarknessAndLight
“ But I can't translate it the right way, that's why I always use so many languages around you, because there're some things that simply can't translate, that are beautiful when you read them the origin… DarknessAndLight
“ BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. Ambrose Bierce
“ Novelists and the literary world play an important part in shaping languages. The Swahili they write influence the readers and their languages. The literary obstacle in Tanzania is not that people do… Enock Maregesi
