Twyla Tharp Quotes

I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.

I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.

I speak a little Spanish but I am so impressed by people who can speak a lot of different languages.

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.

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.

In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.

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

[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.

I like languages. I like working on different accents. I speak English, French and Spanish. I'd love to learn more but I think, as you get older, your brain is a bit slower.

When a person has an accent, it means he can speak one more language than you

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.

Even if people are suspicious of the motives I think that learning and speaking two languages can only be a good thing for people.

I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

That's why it's important to be multilingual, because it teaches you so much about your own language.

How many languages can a child learn? As many as you will take the time to teach them.

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

I think it'd be pretty cool to fly. Actually, I'd like to be Language Gal. My super power is that I can speak every language.

It requires a strong mind to bear up against several languages. Some persons have learnt so many, that they have ceased to think in any one.

It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language.

I think the education system is great just the way it is. There's kids in my neighborhood in Los Angeles, seven years old, that can already speak fluent Spanish.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.