Hundred Languages Quotes

#1. If two thousand five hundred languages are to be lost in the course of the twenty-first century, don't be in any doubt about what that means for us: in each of those two thousand five hundreds cases a culture will be lost.

Andrew Dalby

#2. You do realize she's over two thousand five hundred years old, speaks at least a hundred languages, and has such a depth of knowledge the Cadre comes to her for advice and information?"
Galen had no doubt all of that was true. "I don't intend to get into an intelligence contest with her.

Nalini Singh

#3. Indonesia's diversity is formidable: some thirteen and a half thousand islands, two hundred and fifty million people, around three hundred and sixty ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages.

Pankaj Mishra

#4. Containing several hundred languages, among them several world languages, the Indo-European language family is the language family with the most speakers world-wide.

Soren Eberhardt

#5. The Internet took off in English and although there are now fifteen hundred languages on the Internet, seventy percent of it is still in English.

Melvyn Bragg

#6. We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!

Eddie Izzard

#7. English loves to stay out all night dancing with other languages, all decked out in sparkling prepositions and irregular verbs. It is unruly and will not obey - just when you think you have it in hand, it lets down its hair along with a hundred nonsensical exceptions.

Catherynne M Valente

#8. With people in the world such as 'Jamie Oliver' and [TV chef] Clarissa Dickson-Wright there isn't much hope for animals.

Steven Morrissey

#9. It was a kind of sin, certainly, to forget - but it was not easy to remember, especially when names changed, languages changed. A century-old name held that century; when replaced, a hundred years were wiped out at one stroke. Amnesia set it; reality itself, being metamorphic, was affected.

Ninotchka Rosca

#10. The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

Dalai Lama

#11. Sir, I can use profanity in more than a thousand languages, some having curses that will addle an egg at a hundred paces.

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. That's how we keep this crazy place together - with the heart. Two hundred fuckin' languages, and a billion people. India is the heart. It's the heart that keeps us together. There's no place with people like my people, Lin. There's no heart like the Indian heart.

Gregory David Roberts

#13. It's a gift beyond price, to know you are loved, without conditions, without limits, without end.

Kaje Harper

#14. In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth.

Thich Thien-An

#15. I really wanted to be a Broadway kid.

Reese Witherspoon

#16. These people live in many lands, speak different languages, practice different religions, may even hate one another- yet none of these differences prevented them from cooperating to produce a pencil. How did it happen? Adam Smith gave us the answer two hundred years ago.

Milton Friedman

#17. No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or nonattendance.

Hugo Black

#18. We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?

William Osler

#19. In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#20. I always listen to a lot of different music when I am working on a project.

Bill Wyman