Sushma Swaraj Quotes

If you don't speak Spanish, then don't accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars.

Iranians find Americans easy to deal with because they are straightforward. That … could give Iranians an advantage in any negotiations. But for Americans to understand Iranians, they must recognize that with Iranians the mind thinks something, the head feels something else, the tongue says something else, and manners do something else. It doesn’t mean people are lying. They are just dealing with you with a different character.

I can speak Cantonese, but I can't speak about fashion - I learnt all my fashion in Europe, so often, during interviews in Chinese I just don't know the right word - it can be very hard to explain things.

For 'City of Ghosts,' I really didn't speak any Arabic. It obviously made it more difficult, but I also found it to be an advantage while shooting. It allowed me to focus on the emotion of the scene as opposed to just chasing dialogue.

I hate when I see someone who speaks English speaking to someone who speaks a different language, and they're screaming as if going louder is going to help the other person understand.

Even though you don't understand what I'm saying, you are going to really feel it. The same thing happened to me when I used to listen to English music. I didn't even understand one word. You know? But it just makes me feel great.

If we can listen to English music without understanding nothing, and dance on it, and feel the groove, feel the feelings, I'm sure everybody can do exactly the same for each language.

Most of our life is miscommunication, and when you add a language barrier to it, it just becomes total mayhem and confusion... It just adds to it with all of the cultural differences. It could be an American family meeting another American family and you could still have a total clash. With family, it's like visiting another planet.

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they "speak with the accent of natives" they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

The Korean man nodded, the way you do when you’re a foreigner and understand that someone has finished a sentence.

I trained to become a sign-language interpreter because it helps you read physical expression and the emotions of body language.

Cultural differences can be delicate situations we have to work within the respectful boundaries of.

People don't have to understand a language to understand the emotion and sentiment behind a song.

The Italians - they cannot talk without shaking the hands. And I am like that, I'm from Brazil as well.

The advantage of doing away with words is that you can reach out to any part of the world.

Somebody should tell the president of Mexico that when he appears on American television, he should speak English.

In Spain, they're never direct, and that frustrates me.

As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.

In China, because Chinese is a tonal language, it can be kind of hard to follow people's emotional tracks. There was one moment where a woman I was interviewing just sort of burst into tears, and I can usually sort of tell when things are coming on, and in that moment, it was very unexpected.