John W. Vessey Jr. Quotes

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

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

Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about the need, though, for Britain to integrate with the rest of the world?

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

I consider myself a pretty good conversationalist, but you wind up being downgraded to idiot status when you don't speak the language!

Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.

What Thucydides said of the Greeks at the time of the Peleponnesian War applies to us at present [1860]. The Greeks did not understand each other any longer, though they spoke the same language; words received a different meaning in different parts.

I've had fans coming up to me and speaking Chinese or Japanese. It's not a case of mistaken nationality. I just don't think they realise that we don't all speak the same language.

You know it was really hard to do a set, or even to do interviews in English, because in Europe, we always had a translator with us.

In Dortmund we had many players from abroad and when you want to put your thoughts in their heads, for example with Pierre-Emerick, you had to switch to English, which is the language most players understand.

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.

I am used to being places where I don't speak the language. What I am not used to is being in a part of a country where few people speak my language. Call it ignorance, arrogance, or what have you, but most places I have visited, I was lucky enough to be able to get by with English.

When I went to London, they told me I spoke with a funny accent - English with a Chinese accent.

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.

I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!

Are you having performance issues?” I asked in surprise. “Bite your tongue,” Vlad said, with a snort. “I was seeing if Dermot understood sign language, but from the look on his face, it seems not.

If there is an interpreter sitting between two friends, he may be able to translate the words but not the feelings with which I say something.

I've often been asked, 'aren't you going to sing in English?' So I'm very glad to have a song in English.

Language doesn't seem to be a barrier for me to do films in the south.

I think that a lot of teams aren't as close-knit as we are because a lot of the Spanish speakers don't know English and some of the English guys don't care to try and learn Spanish and relate to Latin players.

I haven't even grown up on Hindi films because my Hindi is bad; I am a Parsi and we speak English or Gujarati at home.

Relying on intelligence as the chief touchstone for decisions about whether and when to attack creates a wide opening for misunderstandings, divergent interpretations, and vulnerabilities to parties with an interest in either attack or delay.

For one thing, my English isn't fantastic, and communicating in the dressing room is not always easy.

Words are an imperfect medium for explaining.

I'm not a native English speaker but do post tweets in English.