another language QUOTES

1 " Being able to read a book in another language is a source of ego-stroking pride. "

― , A Story of Now (A Story of Now, #1)

2 " Listening to someone read aloud is very different from reading in silence. When you read, you can stop or skip sentences: you are the one who sets the pace. When someone else is reading, it is difficult to make your attention coincide with the tempo of his reading: the voice goes either too fast or too slow.

And then, listening to someone who is translating from another language involves a fluctuation, a hesitation over the words, a margin of indecision, something vague, tentative. The text, when you are the reader, is something that is there, against which you are forced to clash; when someone translates it aloud to you, it is something that is and is not there, that you cannot manage to touch. "

― Italo Calvino

3 " Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it. "

― Theodor W. Adorno

4 " To have another language is to possess a second soul. "

5 " There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too. "

― Chris Gardner , The Pursuit of Happyness

6 " I love you...

I love you without needing you, I love you without wanting you. I love you for being you. Because, you see, needing you is a necessity; and wanting you is a desire. But being, is as it is. And so, you as you are, this as it is, is as it is just fine.

I guess the next level will be, I love you... with no explanation. Simply because I'm lost at words for you, and even if I found words, none of them would explain. Like a man who speaks another language trying to communicate, so will I be a love that feels an unexplainable feeling, trying to explain. I can't... And that's okay. "

― Israel S. Dudley

7 " I've come to think that there's an age beyond which it is impossible to lift a child from the pervading marinade of an original country, pat them down with a paper napkin and then deep-fry them in another country, another language like hot oil scalding the first language away. "

― Helen Oyeyemi , The Opposite House

8 " Batting is like another language for Sachin, he always answers his critics by this language. "

― Amit Kalantri , 5 Feet 5 Inch Run Machine – Sachin Tendulkar

9 " Who does not know another language does not know his own. "

10 " Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. "

11 " Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint. "

12 " I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.' "