Foreign languages Quotes

“I need complicated railroad journeys and people speaking to me in foreign languages to keep me happy. I want to see the world and write stories about everything I see.”

“Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.”

“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”

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

“The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.”

“It's an irony... that we understand humans like the foreign languages... full of miss understanding and miss conceptions.”

“She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages . . .”

“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.”

“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 the original way.”