Multilingual Quotes

#1. I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.

Wyclef Jean

#2. Now I am writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an attempt at distance and sanity, a means of recalling normality.

Jasmina Tesanovic

#3. There is as little likelihood of squeezing an adult into the intellectual framework of their childhood as there is into their first pair of pajamas.

Kato Lomb

#4. To look it at another way, surely there are many unfortunate people who have needed to undergo multiple stomach surgeries. Yet no one would hand a scalpel over to them and ask them to perform the same surgery they received on another person, simply because they themselves had undergone it so often.

Kato Lomb

#5. He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had.

Fredrik Backman

#6. The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#7. You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have.

Haruki Murakami

#8. We had been separated by time and distance and events so long, it was as if we had to get to know each other again, but if it was possible to fall in love with the same person twice, I did.

V.C. Andrews

#9. There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.

Alfred North Whitehead

#10. Language is present in a piece of writing like the sea in a single drop.

Kato Lomb

#11. Simple Pleasures
Life is all about the simple pleasures
so I passed on the multilingual GPS option
on the my Bentley Continental GTZ Zagato
and felt the better man for it.

Beryl Dov

#12. A petite, absolutely delightful waitress who, like everyone else, doesn't speak one word of English. But her smile is multilingual.

John Cameron Smith

#13. My motivation for learning Japanese was to translate a chemical patent, a job that I had heroically (i.e., rashly) taken on.

Kato Lomb

#14. I love you
I know

George Lucas

#15. I've always understood that my heart is multilingual. It speaks in whispers, expressions, colours, body, songs, and fervent desire.

Cheri Bauer

#16. We think of photography as pictures. And it is. But I think of photography as ideas. And do the pictures sustain your ideas or are they just good pictures? I want to have an experience in the world that is a deepening experience, that makes me feel alive and awake and conscious.

Joel Meyerowitz

#17. If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

James Hetfield

#18. Oh for God's sake, Jack, lighten up. You know the old saying. Every man loves the smell of his own farts." In

Jake Needham

#19. If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.

Tom Petty

#20. Nowhere on Earth was stupidity prized anymore.

Mark Landau

#21. And since I am a man, I would appreciate it if you would cry for us both, gatita.

Cherise Sinclair

#22. That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.

Sandra Cisneros

#23. Opportunity will not only knock on the door when you are ready, it will stand just next to the door to open it.

Debasish Mridha

#24. At first, we should read with a blitheness practically bordering on superficiality; later on, with a conscientiousness close to distrust.

Kato Lomb

#25. Learning, learned people knew, was a multilingual enterprise ["Absolute English," Aeon, February 4, 2015].

Michael Gordin

#26. A complicated structure? Undoubtedly. But after all, the cathedral of Milan is complicated too, and you still look at it with awe.

Kato Lomb

#27. I invite you to leverage Serbia because we have talented young professionals who are multilingual, highly educated, and willing to work for competitive wages.

Ivica Dacic

#28. [Donald] Trump is fascism, that's all, so we have to find a way to work it out between Hillary [Clinton] and Bernie [Sanders].

Tom Hayden

#29. Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.

Ernest Hemingway,