Quotes and Sayings about Languages

George Orwell in 1984

Thoughts

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Stephen King

Some languages expand not only your ability to speak to different people but what you're able to think.

G. Willow Wilson

The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.

Garth Stein in The Art of Racing in the Rain

Language is the dress of thought.

Samuel Johnson

Thoughts

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

Yao Ming

Every language has its own music.

Sid Caesar

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

William Gibson

Mind & Apprehension

Language - a form of organized stutter.

Marshall McLuhan

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What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea! Resilient, highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate.

Cobb in Inception

Thoughts

An idea is like a virus, resilient, highly contagious. The smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you.

Cobb in Inception

Thoughts Viruses

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thoughts

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

John Keating in Dead Poets Society

Words Thoughts

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Francis Bacon

Silence Wisdom

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Francis Bacon

Light Darkness Good & Evil

Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying "I would stay and love you, but I have to go".

Traveling

The world is like a book. Those who don't travel read only one page.

Aurelius Augustinus

Books Traveling World

A kiss is something you need both hands for.

Mark Twain

Kissing Hands

Preserve your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but not live.

Mark Twain

Dreaming

Life is too short to learn German.

Richard Porson (britischer klassischer Philologe) - 25.12.1759 - 25.09.1808

Germany

The Germans have six months of winter and six months of no summer.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Summer Germany Winter

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell in Animal Farm

Freedom Hearing & Listening

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

George Orwell in Animal Farm

Animals

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell in 1984

Future Past Present

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell in 1984

Understanding

I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

Stephen King in It

Youth

J.K. Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever.

Stephen King - about Harry Potter

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Some stories have no morals. Sometimes darkness and madness are simply that.

G. Willow Wilson

There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

Garth Stein in The Art of Racing in the Rain

To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live.

Garth Stein in The Art of Racing in the Rain

The best drivers don't dwell on the future or the past. The best drivers focus only on the present.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Present

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

Garth Stein in The Art of Racing in the Rain

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Samuel Johnson

My American strength coach said he liked me better before I could speak English.

Yao Ming

If we buy ivory it makes all of us killers as well.

Yao Ming

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Sid Caesar

Humor & Comedy

The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Sid Caesar

Progress

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

William Gibson - Distrust That Particular Flavor

Memories Time

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

William Gibson

Children & Childhood Age

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

Frank Zappa

Mind & Apprehension

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

D. H. Lawrence in Lady Chatterley's Lover

Mind & Apprehension Seeing

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Marshall McLuhan

For knowledge, too, itself is power.
(Col. 'Knowledge is power.')

Francis Bacon in Meditationes Sacræ

Knowledge Intelligence

'You can go home now,' Tom told us.
'We'll meet next week. Then we can rob somebody and kill some people.'

Mark Twain in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying.

Mark Twain in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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