Languages Quotes

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

We've already recognized that it is absolutely essential for British children to learn other languages and we will be working hard to put further strategies in place to ensure this.

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.

It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

I woke up find a rather noisy multi-lingual meeting going on. This was great as everyone could participate and even though everything had to be translated into about four different languages it never became boring. After a while the meeting broke up and everyone went for food.

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history.

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

The internet is a wild land with its own games, languages and gestures through which we are starting to share common feelings.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.

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

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.