Quotes About Multilingualism

#1. I think flexibility, humility, and multilingualism should take the place of sticklerism, arrogance, and nationalism when we think about language. I

Robert Lane Greene

#2. I myself am a supporter of multilingualism, but multilingualism without a true understanding of universal language will only make us blind and ultimately ineffectual in realizing that very ideal.

Minae Mizumura

#3. Certainty' with respect to successful language learning and use--whether oral, written, or technologically mediated combinations--applies less and less to discrete products and more to adaptive processes.

Jay Jordan

#4. This portrait would be to him the most magical of mirrors. As it had revealed to him his own body, so it would reveal to him his own soul.

Oscar Wilde

#5. Orm always afterwards used to say that, after good luck, strength, and skill at arms, nothing was so useful to a man who found himself among foreigners as the ability to learn a language.

Frans G. Bengtsson

#6. The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal.

Joseph Stalin

#7. I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get.

Pauly Shore

#8. Friendship's like a relationship between friends.

Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff

#9. If one could read fluently, confidently, in every known language, one would have no need of translators or translations; one could read Homer on Mondays, Akhmatova on Tuesdays, Swahili poets on Wednesdays, and so on.

Abraham Verghese

#10. So, in the morning light, where they flapped in the drying wind, the bear and the star defied the Saxons.

Bernard Cornwell

#11. What you see and hear is a situation in which languages are less like apples - neat and discrete - and more like oatmeal. It's always been oatmeal in India, and all the varieties of oatmeal continue to merge, despite political pressures to name them as if they were marbles.

Michael Erard