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Quotes on languages
Apr. 19th, 2011 02:50 pm❝If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.❞
‒Nelson Mandela
❝One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.❞
‒Frank Smith
❝The limits of my language are the limits of my world.❞
‒Ludwig Wittgenstein
❝Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can; there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.❞
‒Sarah Caldwell
❝Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.❞
‒Chinese Proverb
❝You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.❞
‒Geoffrey Willans
❝To have another language is to possess a second soul.❞
‒Charlemagne
❝Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.❞
‒Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
❝Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.❞
‒Rita Mae Brown
❝Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.❞
‒Oliver Wendell Holmes
source
‒Nelson Mandela
❝One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.❞
‒Frank Smith
❝The limits of my language are the limits of my world.❞
‒Ludwig Wittgenstein
❝Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can; there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.❞
‒Sarah Caldwell
❝Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.❞
‒Chinese Proverb
❝You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.❞
‒Geoffrey Willans
❝To have another language is to possess a second soul.❞
‒Charlemagne
❝Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.❞
‒Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
❝Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.❞
‒Rita Mae Brown
❝Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.❞
‒Oliver Wendell Holmes
source
Translation quote
Apr. 16th, 2010 02:51 pm"The translator is not a ferryman for the meaning of the words but the author of their web of new relations. And he is not the painter of the light part of the meaning, but the watcher of the shadow, and what it suggests."
Darwish, Mahmoud.Poésie: La terre nous est étroite qtd. in Translation In practice : a symposium. Ed. Gill Paul. Normal (IL): Dalkey Archive Press. 2009.
Darwish, Mahmoud.Poésie: La terre nous est étroite qtd. in Translation In practice : a symposium. Ed. Gill Paul. Normal (IL): Dalkey Archive Press. 2009.
My favourite quotes
Jan. 6th, 2010 12:53 am“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Monolingualism can be cured."
Anthony Mollica
"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Having two languages does not make you a translator or interpreter any more than having two hands makes you a pianist"
E. Trabing
"Without translation, there would be no history of the world."
L. G. Kelly
"Traduire, c’est exécuter une danse pieds et poings liés"
Dezsö Kosztolányi
"It is generally believed that something is always lost in translation; I cling to the notion that something can also be gained."
Salman Rushie
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Monolingualism can be cured."
Anthony Mollica
"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it"
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Having two languages does not make you a translator or interpreter any more than having two hands makes you a pianist"
E. Trabing
"Without translation, there would be no history of the world."
L. G. Kelly
"Traduire, c’est exécuter une danse pieds et poings liés"
Dezsö Kosztolányi
"It is generally believed that something is always lost in translation; I cling to the notion that something can also be gained."
Salman Rushie
