#languages

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

#grammar #language #languages #letter #literacy

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

— M. H. Abrams

#after #age #country #emerges #how

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

— Neville Marriner

#easily #know #languages #lend #themselves

It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. ↗

— Wade Davis

#extinction #half #haunting #languages #realize

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning. ↗

— John W. Dawson

#areas #identical #languages #meaning #multitudes

What I want is a beautiful and sophisticated piece of ass that happens to be 'bi. ↗

— Scott Jonathan Nixon

#humor #languages #beauty

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. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #dub #enough

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ↗

— Michelle Hunziker

#educated #father #german #had #host

I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar. ↗

— Andy Lau

#i #languages #many #other #similar

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

— Chris Marker

#chose #chris #i #intent #languages