#arabic

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home. ↗

— John Abizaid

#army #body needs #everybody #home #i

أليست النفس تموتُ مَرَّهْ فخذْ عليها أن تموتَ حُــرَّهْ ↗

— أحمد شوقي

#death #freedom #life #death

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#arabic #certain #i #i can #i do

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world. ↗

— Brian Eno

#arabic #come #enter #feeling #i

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabic #became #country #distrusted #european

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.' ↗

— Vince Cable

#attempting #chance #claim #company #developments

I've got Arabic music in my blood. ↗

— Stewart Copeland

#blood #got #i #music

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#hebrew #i #might #something

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#been #effect #had #into #languages

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#beautiful #clear #i #language #moves