If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
You can't get wet from the word 'water.'
He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.
In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.
Do you want your blood to stay where it is sochar-lar?" Tavi lifted both eyebrows at the unfamiliar word, and glanced at Varg. "Monkey," Varg supplied, in Aleran. "And male-child." "He called me monkey boy?" Tavi asked.
An idea does not pass from one language to another without change.
Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.
When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
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.
The most basic barrier was language itself, very few Americans in Iraq whether soldiers or diplomats or news paper reporters could speak more than a few words of Arabic. A remarkable number of them didn't even have translators. That meant for many Iraqis the typical 19 year old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying Americas good will, he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance.
My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.
When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.
But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
Speech happens to not be his language.
We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.
No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.
Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!
Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
A language which we do not know is a fortress sealed.
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.
