Quotes About Language Barrier

#1. What happened? Did a house fall on your sister?" I asked. Maybe there was a benefit to our language barrier. She pursed her lips.
"You can't stay here much longer," she said.
My mouth dropped open.
"You ... you speak English?"
She snorted. "Of course.

Richelle Mead

#2. I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier.

Curtis Jackson

#3. The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.

Samuel V. Chamberlain

#4. Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier is not a problem. With the right talent, any director can be successful.

Kim Jee-woon

#5. Language Barrier We use Latin terms To make us feel smart and sharp (Nobody else cares)

J.D. Dupuy

#6. There was no language barrier when it came to kids, and when it came to play.

Connie Sellecca

#7. Initially, before I came to Hollywood, I thought that the language barrier would be the biggest challenge, but I realized that actors all around the world, regardless of language, are all the same.

Kim Jee-woon

#8. I really hope there is a language barrier thing going on here.

Annie Ward

#9. Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

Tommy Chong

#10. Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.

Ellen J. Barrier

#11. One barrier ... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

David Perkins

#12. Language has created a barrier that prevents us from seeing existence as it truly is.

Chris Matakas

#13. To bring relevance to people, you have to be able to speak their language effectively

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Language is not the barrier, the heart is".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#15. And for two weeks I was banged up with a Hobbit who only spoke Elvish," said Jess.

Sue Limb

#16. Strauss again brought up my need to speak and wrtie simply and directly so that people will understand me. He reminds me that language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway. Ironic to find myself on the other side of the intellectual fence.

Daniel Keyes

#17. We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

Tom Robbins

#18. The individual that believes God permits a man to hit a woman or speak to her using abusive language, is void of understanding who God is. He condemns violence in any form.

Ellen J. Barrier

#19. There are no barriers to poetry or prophecy; by their nature they are barrier-breakers, bursts of perceptions, lines into infinity. If the poet lies about his vision he lies about himself and in himself; this produces a true barrier.

Lenore Kandel

#20. The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

Christopher Dawson

#21. That be common for I, also, but be more strong, you. Much work and someday, you talk pretty. People start love you soon. Maybe tomorrow, okay.

David Sedaris

#22. Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.
It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language.

Ellen J. Barrier

#23. A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.

Thomas Davis

#24. Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#25. As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.

Alberto Manguel

#26. Love does not chose its victims discriminately.

Franklyn James

#27. Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.

Vera Caspary

#28. For the barrier of language is sometimes a blessed barrier, which only lets pass what is good. Or-to put the thing less cynically-we may be better in new clean words, which have never been tainted by our pettiness or vice.

E. M. Forster

#29. Overly literal translations, far from being faithful, actually distort meaning by obscuring sense.

Ken Liu

#30. Language is sometimes a barrier instead of a pathway.

Daniel Keyes

#31. Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

Edward De Bono

#32. My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who continue to love and support me despite my obsessions.

Jonathan Ball

#33. Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you

Munia Khan

#34. But she couldn't formulate the sentence in Chinese. Her knowledge of the language only extended to the daily necessities and small affections.

Jade Chang

#35. A heart that yearns for romantic love cannot be quenched by any other passion, position or property.

Franklyn James

#36. Though her grasp of English was modest and his Italian non-existent, their rapport was at once intuitive and intimate, founded more on physical attraction and a shared love of the outdoors than meaningful conversation.

Robert Radcliffe

#37. By bridging the literacy barrier through the use of 3D interactive models we overcome the inherent limitations of text. At the same time, language differences become much less important as text is replaced by interactive, 3D images.

Fay Chung