Language Quotes

Page 61: No matter where I go in the world, although I can’t speak any foreign language.

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.

Story is the language of the heart.

Like all magic cultures expressed by appropriate hieroglyphs, the true theater has its shadows too, and, of all languages and all arts, the theater is the only one left whose shadows have shattered their limitations.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.

Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.

If you spend 72 hours in a place you’ve never been, talking to people whose language you don’t speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don’t understand, and you come back as the world’s biggest know-it-all, you’re a reporter. Either that or you’re President Obama.

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.