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I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Languages are true analytical methods. -- Antoine Lavoisier
Languages are the keys of science. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Languages are the pedigree of nations. -- Samuel Johnson
Languages shape the way we think, or don't. -- Erik Naggum
Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic. -- Rob Pike
[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life. -- Trevor Noah
Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days. -- Patricia Ryan
People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey. -- Roman Jakobson
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other. -- Jean de la Bruyere
I want you to go to the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College tomorrow morning, Ms.Lane. -- Karen Marie Moning
Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions. -- Godfrey Higgins
Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure. -- Francois Rabelais
Someone gave me the Love Languages book, and that has been the best book I've ever read about relationships and has helped me the most. -- Kristin Cavallari
Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually falling, through disuse. -- Tom Felton
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.' -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.' -- Joshua Foer
I speak two languages, Body and English. -- Mae West
Love will find its way through all languages on its own. -- Rumi
There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion. -- Malala Yousafzai
I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities. -- Elif Safak
It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. -- M. H. Abrams
Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties. -- Yigal Azrouel
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages. -- Jacques Derrida
It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning. -- Michael Gove
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. -- Kerry Greenwood
Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles. -- Joshua Foer
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. -- Harold Bloom
Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable. -- J. Martin Kohe
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. -- Joseph Conrad
English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese. -- Abdul Kalam
Cultures, along with the religions that shape and nurture them, are value systems, sets of traditions and habits clustered around one or several languages, producing meaning: for the self, for the here and now, for the community, for life. -- Tariq Ramadan
It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. -- Stephen Hawking
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things. -- Tom Wlaschiha
In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry. -- Ivanka Trump
Who was Amanda Knox? Was she a fresh-faced honor student from Seattle who met anyone's definition of an all-American girl - attractive, athletic, smart, hard-working, adventuresome, in love with languages and travel? Or was her pretty face a mask, a duplicitous cover for a depraved soul? -- Tina Brown
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. -- Russell Baker
In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me in spite of myself, and in spite of her own struggles with alcohol. She was an immigrant who had never finished school. But she was also a Renaissance woman who read voraciously. She spoke several languages. -- Richard Carmona
It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Sometimes we speak different languages, but our hearts are the same. -- Mykyta Isagulov
Colors speak all languages. -- Joseph Addison
All women speak two languages: -- Mohja Kahf
I'm pretty good with languages. -- Marisol Nichols
I'm flatulent in many languages. -- John R. Erickson
Eyes...They speak all languages. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I would like to speak 10 languages. -- Leon Redbone
I have a good ear for languages. -- Harry Dean Stanton
Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. -- Amos Oz
How many languages do we really speak? -- Alfredo Jaar
I was very adept at acquiring languages. -- Anna Held
With languages, you are at home anywhere -- Edmund de Waal
We're persecuted in the most civilized languages. -- Bernard Malamud
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. -- Vivien Leigh
Different languages cut the world into different slices. -- Jean Berko Gleason
Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom. -- Roger Bacon
The internet is an amazing medium for languages, -- David Crystal
The dance is the mother of all languages. -- Robin G. Collingwood
I had to know at least two languages. -- Novak Djokovic
You who speak languages, you are such liars. -- Orson Scott Card
He who has two languages has two souls. -- Quintus Ennius
It is time for dead languages to be quiet. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. -- Eugene V. Debs
The German language is the organ among the languages. -- Jean Paul
My favourite films are in languages I don't understand. -- Chika Anadu
But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana. -- Eddie Izzard
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
We only speak two languages here: English and profanity. -- Kevin Constantine
We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages. -- Peter Cook
Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages. -- Neil Simon
There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned. -- John W. Campbell
The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury. -- John Bright
I had a quick ear and could pick up languages. -- Diane Cilento
I have no words. Sixteen languages, but no words. -Vishous -- J.R. Ward
If you know two languages, the level of your intelligence -- Bill Cosby
A thing well said will be wit in all languages. -- John Dryden
Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. -- William Shakespeare
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. -- Alan Perlis
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS. -- Bill Hayden
Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages. -- Roger Bacon
Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English. -- Casey Stengel
Look, lady I only speak two languages: English and Bad English! -- Bruce Willis
He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man who can speak two languages is worth two men. -- Napoleon Hill
I've said it a million times: Romance languages lead to premarital sex. -- Stephen Colbert
Two languages in one brain? No one can live at that speed! -- Eddie Izzard
If you've got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages. -- Michael Lewis
I can fluently speak five languages: English, emoji, sexting, sarcasm and sass. -- Tyler Oakley
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The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself. -- Sandra Cisneros
He who knows other languages feels even closer to his own language. -- KatÃ³ Lomb
Ingrid Bergman speaks five languages and can't act in any of them. -- John Gielgud
Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important. -- Jon Secada
Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks. -- Jose Rizal
Believe it or not, Japanese is actually easier than some European languages! -- Phil Collins
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's very hard having a career in different continents and two different languages. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn't change on him. -- Maggie Stiefvater
As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being -- Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them. -- Dorothy Parker
The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in. -- Jimenez Lai
As you can see, I speak many languages, including the language of sex. -- Kristen Schaal
They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. -- William Shakespeare
Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only too sizes; too big and too small. -- Richard E. Pattis
Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. -- Frank Capra
A special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one. -- Evan Esar
Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling. -- Cary Fukunaga
A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life. -- Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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