#language

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say. ↗

— Phil Collins

#down #english #going #good #i

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#appears #comes #languages #man #many

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris. ↗

— Giambattista Valli

#i #language #paris

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#between #chess #dec #enough #i

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. ↗

— Walt Disney

#inventions #language #mass #most #our

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#chance #determined #fighting #give #i

China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#becoming #been #better #chances #china

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#culture #destinies #destiny #history #language

Every language has its own music. ↗

— Sid Caesar

#language #music #own

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#dying #earth #every #hear #i