Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Paul

The German language is the organ among the languages.

Mark Twain

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

Mark Twain

How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!

Mark Twain

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

Mark Twain

My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

Mark Twain

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

Martin Heidegger

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

John le Carre

I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly.

Karl Kraus

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

Antoine Lavoisier

Languages are true analytical methods.

David Aaron

It is a question of putting into the text the language of our accord.

Wanda Peterson

Last summer I took a sign language class. There was a project where I was in a group. I was treated just like the other students (in the group).

Bertrand Russell

We shall say that we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference of any knowledge of truths.

Veda Upanishads

It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.

Joe Torre

I think that's personality more than anything. (Hideki) Matsui is so different and he's got the language barrier, too.

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think so, because of the language that had to be learned and understood. The last thing you get is the technique because the language you can put together. But to be able to put the fundamentals together at the speed necessary to be successful takes some time. You can't have a lot of thought going through your mind.

Cecelia Ahern

One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.

Bill Bryson

More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.

Mario Pescante

I will speak with him about doping. We are optimistic.

Linda Casey

I think it speaks to the convenience of convenience stores.

Mario Pescante

I will speak with (Rogge) about doping, ... We are optimistic.

Antoine Hood

I think I can speak for everyone on this team when I say he had our trust from Day 1.

Randy Couture

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

Libba Bray

I feel like I'm speaking with my therapist.

Tiger Woods

I can't speak for him, but I did not play well at all.