Languages Quotes
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In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.
Itzhak Perlman
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The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world
Repeats the passage of the universe
To God; the name of Christ--the one great word
Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.
Philip James Bailey
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"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."
Mikhail Bulgakov
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Ever since third grade, I had a notebook and was putting together words just for fun. I liked different etymologies, different slang that came out in different eras. Different languages. Different dialects.
MF DOOM
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There are two languages that I love: Farsi and Panjabi. Because the depth of Sufi thought in these two languages cannot be found in any other language.
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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His best-selling book, The Goal, has sold over 6 million copies and has been translated into 35 languages. It continues to be required reading in major business schools.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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People come from around the world and can understand each other without even speaking the same languages!
Sergei Bubka
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Fidelity is surely our highest aim, but a translation is not made with tracing paper. It is an act of critical interpretation. Let me insist on the obvious: Languages trail immense, individual histories behind them, and no two languages, with all their accretions of tradition and culture, ever dovetail perfectly. They can be linked by translation, as a photograph can link movement and stasis, but it is disingenuous to assume that either translation or photography, or acting for that matter, are representational in any narrow sense of the term. Fidelity is our noble purpose, but it does not have much, if anything, to do with what is called literal meaning. A translation can be faithful to tone and intention, to meaning. It can rarely be faithful to words or syntax, for these are peculiar to specific languages and are not transferable.
Edith Grossman
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At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.
Cullen Murphy
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Whoa, lady, I only speak two languages, English and bad English.
Bruce Willis
