Malcolm X Quotes

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

I can identify with Riho because I was the talent that didn't speak the language in Japan. I'm very excited for the fans to kind of build a relationship with her because it's going to take work from both sides to understand one another.

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

I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.

Being published in Arabic is a strong and consistent wish I have. I live in the Middle East and want to be in some sort of an unpragmatic dialogue with my neighbors.

Speech is civilization itself.

Right now we're in the middle of a cultural war between the Muslims and the Western world. The politicians get in the way, but if you put two people together in a room, they can talk it out and work it out, just like Anna and the King.

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

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

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

Even when well translated. can we really understand what other cultures are talking about?

Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligible to each other.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

It taught the English to speak Spanish and it taught the Spanish to speak English. If we had more songs such as that, it would solve the immigration problem in a hurry. But there can't be another 'Feliz Navidad.'

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

The good thing about not speaking the language is you just listen. You listen to everyone, every producer, every writer.

I wouldn't say there are alliances at the pageant, but I understand if you can't speak the language, you would want to hang out with someone who understands you.

We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen.

It's rare to find an Indian who speaks Chinese. It's rare to find a Chinese who can speak any of the Indian languages. Neither of them at the trading level - I want to repeat this, at the trading level - can speak English, either.

The last thing an Englishman wants to hear is a man from Brussels trying to imitate his language - you want to hear a different point of view. You may not be able to understand the details, but you can understand the feeling.

The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.