Nas Quotes

Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.

Shakespeare's taught me that there are more words in the English language than I have got in my head.

It is asked of me that I give my first speech in this house in a language [English] other than my mother tongue [French.] …. Even if I knew English as intimately as I knew French, I would still give my first speech in the language of my French Canadian compatriots

Miami is America’s most diverse city… We have 140 languages we speak..

I think speaking English is beautiful.

I once tried to read the dictionary. It didn't work.

English is a really wonderful language and I urge you all to investigate it

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

When I have time, I would like to do films in my language but I would also like to star in Bengali and Marathi films too.

In South Africa, we speak English and sometimes Afrikaans, sometimes Zulu, sometimes Xhosa.

I would like to make a film in the four South Indian languages.

I enjoy singing in different languages, be it Telugu or Bengali. I would like to sing in Malayalam too.

I suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.

A common language doesn't soothe dry tongues and thirsty throats.

Usage is the best language teacher.

It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language.

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

I think they've got 250 languages in Nigeria, and so English is a sort of lingua franca between the 250 languages.

...The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!

The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.

With the words, a lot of things start with questions. Some word kind of piques my interest, and I love the way it sounds, but I really don't know what it means. And I honestly don't care for a while.

English is a stretch language; one size fits all.

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.