Oscar Wilde Quotes

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation.

American and French culture are really, really different, but in a way it's funny.

Some people come up to me and say "You know, in Italy, it's pronounced Ber-beel-lia" And I say "Well, here in America, you're annoying..."

I'm just happy our nations are on the same page of keeping shitty reality TV on the air. Small world!

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?

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.

When the Egyptians decide something, probably it is not appropriate for the U.S. When the Americans decide something, this, of course, is not appropriate for Egypt.

Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

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.

I just started taking Mandarin classes. I love the idea of globalization: of being able to work in different countries.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

I'm not a xenophobe - I think immigration is a good thing for most countries - but they transmute the foibles of their native tongues into English in a way that's difficult to figure out.

I want my words to survive translation.

Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.

I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have.

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

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

I don't really have that much contact with Americans. I mean, I see the oddest things on the Internet, I suppose. And I've got a couple of American friends, but they are Anglophiles anyway because they've decided to come live here.

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

China is a company of contradictions. Nothing is what it appears to be. We have to be extremely respectful when we go overseas.

When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here.