Peter Cook Quotes

I really wanted to speak English because I started touring the world, and I wanted to communicate with people directly.

For the benefit of those who are not bilingual, I will now continue in English.

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

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.

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

Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialog, there will be some communication, and I am quite certain that then there will be some understanding.

You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

You couldn't have human society without language.

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

The only problem was that I couldn't communicate with Dario. He speaks Italian and I don't. We had a translator the whole time. I just felt that something was lost with the go between. He was a delightful man, but I wish we could have spoken the same language.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.

Speech is civilization itself.

And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.

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

I want my words to survive translation.

Translation is at best an echo.

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

I suppose if I went to Turkey - I mean, I can't imagine going that far away, but if I did go to Turkey, yes, I would probably try to know 'please' and 'sorry' and 'thank you', and 'a beer please', and all the useful words.

Seize every opportunity of learning to converse in the vulgar tongues spoken in your realm. It is unworthy of a prince to be unable without an interpreter to hold intercourse with his people…. The ties that bind monarch and people should be woven of mutual affection, and how is this possible where free and intelligible communication cannot exist?

Miami is America’s most diverse city… We have 140 languages we speak..

People who speak different languages, they are watching the movie from our language. So, I think all of us should be proud as nation and as cinema lovers.

I think my biggest fear is trying to communicate in Spanish with someone I don't know and them laughing at me or thinking it's awful, but for the most part, people I've encountered just see that I'm trying, and they're helpful. It's helpful to me to communicate with people.

My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.