#languages

There is no such thing as a dead language, only a dead lay that's a little too quiet for my tastes. ↗

— Scott Jonathan Nixon

#languages #love

I’m bilingual, speaking English and body language. I prefer the latter, because I can speak it silently and without listening and while my back is turned.
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— Jarod Kintz

#english #ignore #ignoring #language #languages

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury. ↗

— John Bright

#knowledge #languages #luxury #mainly

Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#am #being #enough #fact #gifted

I think it is an inborn talent - just luck. Some people can learn languages; some can throw a ball. Most people have something. My talent is drawing and painting. ↗

— Mike Thompson

#drawing #i #i think #inborn #just

In order to be a diplomat, one must speak a number of languages, including doubletalk. ↗

— Carey Williams

#including #languages #must #number #order

Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy. ↗

— Niklaus Wirth

#another #belong #cannot #fallacy #languages

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

#any #conscious #conscious decision #decision #i

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. ↗

— Frank Capra

#languages #mathematics #music #other #three

I just know so many people who have six or seven foreign languages and have read everything and have musical training and they are still dorks. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

#foreign #foreign languages #i #just #know