Language is the armory of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language I said nothing.

We call that person who has lost his father an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

I am a lover of truth a worshipper of freedom a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

Language is like songs like food like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

I loved everything about Spain - the people the language and the food!

Every country can be defined through their food their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

There are realities we all share regardless of our nationality language or individual tastes. As we need food so do we need emotional nourishment: love kindness appreciation and support from others.

There is the fear common to all English-only speakers that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise you know why not just come out and say it?

The world's most famous and popular language is music.

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school and afterward went to work in Tokyo where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.

At last in 1611 was made under the auspices of King James the famous King James version and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

In my family in the days prior to television we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

'Let God be true but every man a liar' is the language of true faith.

Music and language are a vital element. We as actors and directors offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

When you grow up in a family of languages you develop a kind of casual fluency so that languages though differently colored all seem transparent to experience.

I had decided I wanted to write about food and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek ' which is a show that was for better or for worse all about the language. It was a word-perfect show which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time it wasn't my favorite working experience.

I've had a fair amount of experience with snakes and I find them to be pretty honest in terms of how you read their body language and emotions. They'll tell you when they're grumpy. They'll tell you when they're okay.

Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet respectful tones but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.

My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.