Monolingual Quotes

#1. In the context of fiercely monolingual dominant cultures like that of the United States, code-switching lays claim to a form of cultural power: the power to own but not be owned by the dominant language...Code-switching is a rich source of wit, humour, puns, word play, and games of rhythm and rhyme.

Mary Louise Pratt

#2. All conservatives are bilingual we have to be. We speak both liberal and conservative. But liberals are monolingual - they don't have to be anything else. They speak liberal, and are completely ignorant of the conservative tongue.

John Podhoretz

#3. There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common. It's called a monolingual field situation.

Daniel Everett

#4. I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages at my command, different styles, different ways of talking, which do involve different parameter settings.

Noam Chomsky

#5. To remain monolingual reduces the mind to the confines of a tramline.

Sybille Bedford

#6. Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.

Nataly Kelly

#7. Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality.

John Ortberg

#8. I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.

Keren Ann

#9. Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.

Artie Lange

#10. Even if I spend every waking moment attempting to keep my life in balance, I'm going to fuck up. Having

Tyler Oakley

#11. I mean, I guess I don't really have you, but I feel like I do. I feel like when you smile at me ... my whole body feels it. I've never felt so much so soon for anyone. I don't want to lose this feeling. You woke my soul up and the rest of me followed.

Lindy Zart

#12. I have a gigantic ego and need to be at the top of the pile and be doing amazingly well; also, at the same time, I'm just pleased to be anywhere.

Robbie Williams

#13. It's exciting to see things coming up again, plants that you've had twenty or thirty years. It's like seeing an old friend.

Tasha Tudor

#14. And I can tell you God makes us how he needs us to be.

Wiley Cash

#15. Upon entering, 'Your room,' be surrounded by the things you love: pictures, light, paintings, photos, books, whatever.

Garry Fitchett

#16. What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night,
So stumblest on my counsel?
*Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

William Shakespeare