Modern Languages Quotes

#1. An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in the fighting styles of the Kyoto masters and the modern tactics and weaponry of Europe.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#2. He was fluent in nineteen modern languages, five ancient languages and the one true universal language - pain.

Tiffany Reisz

#3. What are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy; Natural History; Civil History; Ethics.

Thomas Jefferson

#4. Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.

Maturin Murray Ballou

#5. For example, a telegram is a "lightning-letter"; a wireless telegram is a "not-have-wire-lightning-communication"; a fountain-pen is a "self-flow-ink-water-brush"; a typewriter is a "strike-letter-machine". Most of these neologisms are similar in the modern languages of China and Japan.

Wolfram Eberhard

#6. In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.

W. H. Auden

#7. 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

#8. Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#9. Banksy is a poet, but so was hitler.

Atticus

#10. I suppose he'd had the name ready for a long time, even then.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. I'm afraid that trouble is not what you do. Trouble is what you are.

Sylvain Reynard

#12. work and a minority that is too ill to work. The latter

Kenneth J. Rothman

#13. I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

H.L. Mencken

#14. Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.

Yanis Varoufakis

#15. That in the end, people who are grieving have to want to move on
that first step, that motivating spark, has to come from within them. And when it does, it opens the door to the unexpected.

Nicholas Sparks

#16. I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them?

Toby Jones

#17. Where you come from is such a huge part of who you are today.

Deborah Ann Woll

#18. Quoting God's Word in the present tense infuses our hearts with holy restraint and diffuses our reactions so we don't spew.

Lysa TerKeurst

#19. Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to
avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness
to expand.

Mark Abley

#20. Her English was sweet, an effort for her, anachronistic and unpractised.

Ruth Ahmed

#21. I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.

Ben Hecht

#22. There is an expression-walking with beauty. And I believe that this endless search for beauty in surroundings, in people and one's personal life, is the headstone of travel.

Juliette De Bairacli Levy