Quotes About Polyglot

#1. The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in its own ways. Each edifies worlds and counter-worlds in its own mode. The polyglot is a freer man.

George Steiner

#2. You don't reason with men like Hitler.

Kristin Hannah

#3. It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.

James Arthur

#4. At one time, I had it notarised that I was from another planet. By a lawyer.

Roky Erickson

#5. The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.

Barry Ritholtz

#6. I would like to be a polyglot.

Rachel Maddow

#7. Today, whether we are doing algebra or playing with the computer, we are, in effect, benefitting from some inheritance of the quest for a perfect language.
For a Polyglot Federation

Umberto Eco

#8. You may face many troubles. But the Lord will deliver you from each one.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. For Jesus, compassion was more than a quality of God and an individual virtue: it was a social paradigm, the core value for life in community. To put it boldly: compassion for Jesus was political.

Marcus J. Borg

#10. We're fucked, Nila Weaver. Well and truly fucked.

Pepper Winters

#11. The CIO needs to be an enterprise 'polyglot,' to master both business language and IT terminology, and beyond.

Pearl Zhu

#12. The Hellenistic world was international to a degree, polyglot and inspired by many religious faiths ... the Greek ideals were pagan and the Hellenistic age witnessed their death struggle against Asiatic and Egyptian mysteries , on the one side, and against Judaism , on the other.

George Sarton

#13. We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house.

Theodore Roosevelt

#14. I did not come to Augusta to provide lip service. I came to work for the Maine people. I also came to Augusta to root out crooked politicians and government corruption.

Paul LePage

#15. America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way.

Ronald Reagan

#16. The polyglot is a linguistic nomad.

Rosi Braidotti

#17. The captain swore polyglot -very polyglot- polyglot with bloom and blood.

Bram Stoker

#18. Beautiful people blossomed forth from out of the polyglot, people who really had a lot to them, only it had been smothered by all the eternal social games that had been set up. Suddenly they found each other.

Tom Wolfe

#19. The only bad studio is the unused one.

Robert Genn

#20. I love museums more than any other institution the human race has invented. Museum people are always overworked and underpaid, and they all deserve sainthood, every one.

Robert T. Bakker

#21. It made sense to Abdul that in a polyglot city, people would sort themselves as he sorted his garbage, like with like.

Katherine Boo

#22. The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.

Jeffrey Kluger

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

Kato Lomb

#24. Were they like Star Trek's Star-Base 9, polyglot,

Stephen Oppenheimer

#25. A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

William Ellery Channing

#26. Assume makes an ass out of you and me.

David Leavitt