Vetrimaaran Quotes

They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it!

Language is at the root of Quebec nationalism.

I think in my mother tongue. That's Hindi.

You know, there's nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry at a speech they're not quite certain what he's saying.

I am not anti-English, and I never was.

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.

The Irish hate our order, our civilization, our enterprising industry, our pure religion. This wild, reckless, indolent, uncertain, and superstitious race have no sympathy with the English character …. Their history describes an unbroken circle of bigotry and blood.

When California passes a law saying that English is the official language, it can only mean one thing: That English is no longer the official language.

I am more comfortable with Tamil than Hindi.

While I was doing Hindi, people there laughed at me because I couldn't speak Hindi and English properly.

It's problematic being an Arab who writes in Hebrew.

She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood there fair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something of him, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed her eyes.

I think that I feel an indignation when I don't understand something.

We've all felt anger. It can come when things don't turn out the way we want. It might be a reaction to something which is said of us or to us. We may experience it when people don't behave the way we want them to behave. Perhaps it comes when we have to wait for something longer than we expected. We might feel angry when others can't see things from our perspective. There seem to be countless possible reasons for anger….If we desire to have a proper spirit with us at all times, we must choose to refrain from becoming angry.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.

I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

Grandma frowned and yelled something in Russian. She could have been saying, 'Open up, your best friend is here.' On the other hand, it could have been, 'America is a great country because of canned ravioli.

Anything that I don't understand or can't do is stupid.

My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken.

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.

You cannot sedate all the things you hate.

I understand a fury in your words But not your words.