Federico Fellini Quotes

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

Globalization has brought a proliferation of such environments, so that even monolinguals must increasingly learn to live and act multilingually.

Getting access to diverse civilizations should be easy, and languages are the gateway to that.

My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

It always trips me out that America, the most powerful and magnificent nation in the history of the world, whose might was built by immigrants from all over the world, only speaks one language.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.

I have no idea what it would be like to be just one thing and speak one language. I feel enormously privileged to travel and be able to mingle and speak to people that, had I only known English, I wouldn't have been able to meet.

People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.

When people speak their own language you get a much better sense of who they are.

I am critical of the parochial understanding of the Francophone movement and feel that it is used as a justification for not learning the language of the “other”. Those who respect the “other” are those who know them, and those who reject the language of the “other” are at a disadvantage. Learning the language of the “other” does not contradict our rejection of the dominance of their language, which is quite valid in my opinion.

Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks.

I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.

I would love to be bilingual. I think having a second or third language at my bidding would open up the world in amazing ways.

It's better to live a world where you can hear different languages and sensibilities.

It has to be said that one of the most impressive aspects of the parliament are the brilliant unsung translators, who ensure that whatever language you speak, you are understood.

I learned to say 'hello' in German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Indonesian, and Italian - languages of the countries I've visited.

Translations are very important these days, since an average person can only know 2-3 three languages. We have so many languages in India and poems are being written in as many of them.

None of us had really any interest in doing a sort of 'Babel 2.'

Honestly if I had the time, I would love to learn every language in the world. I love connecting to people. If I can't do it through language, I will try to do it through my music.