Quotes About Being Bilingual

#1. Can you imagine being bilingual? Or even knowing anybody that was? I'm not even unilingual. Actually, I shouldn't say that. I don't give myself enough credit. I know enough English to, you know, get by. I can order in restaurants and stuff.

Brian Regan

#2. My goal was to reach this literary crowd, but I didn't want to alienate my core fan base. I grew up speaking that language, this isn't put on. I can go back and forth; it's almost like being bilingual. But I'm not college educated; I don't know rules of grammar.

Rude Jude

#3. That's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are.

Henry Louis Gates

#4. Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

Natalie Clifford Barney

#5. It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

Alison Gopnik

#6. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole thing spills, you aren't as devastated.

Emily Giffin

#7. Worry only wears the body, soul and the spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. She was now drowning in that pool of desires without having any idea about the depth of it.

Viraj J. Mahajan

#9. I was moved beyond words. The train ride over the mountains from lake Titticaca to Cusco reminded me of Africa where I grew up; and 4 days walking on the Inca Trail, then more in the jungle, just magnificent - time, space, and splendour. Our planet is superb!

Jay Woodman

#10. The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

John Updike

#11. The writer and his reader are both complicit in the act of storytelling. The writer must first leave a part of his soul on the page,like a contagion, which the reader then catches.

Cynthia Ogren

#12. To live outside the law you must be honest.

Bob Dylan

#13. As an individual, and I have to say as a person of color, the thing about being an 'other' in America is I really feel like you're bilingual. I'm from a small town in Wisconsin, but even when I'm in New York and I'm working for MSNBC or CNN, you're used to being the only black person in the room.

John Ridley

#14. She loved them so much that she felt a kind of hollowness on the inner surface of her arms whenever she looked at them-an ache of longing to pull them close and hold them tight against her.

Anne Tyler

#15. Perhaps ... our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life.

Jean Toomer

#16. It's just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain.

Stephenie Meyer