Quotes for All
Everyone is used to speaking a slightly different \”language\” with their parents than with their peers, because spoken language changes every generation – like they say, the past is a foreign country – but I think this is intensified for children whose parents also grew up in a geographically foreign country. Elif Batuman
For a while I felt like I spoke a different language than my immediate family. It wasn’t until my teens that I met and got to know better members of my extended family (my cousin Alma in particular) that self- identified as artists. Something in us clicked together; in the way we thought, in the … Read more
We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don’t just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have. Fred Frith
life perpetuated in parti-colored loves and beautiful lies all in different languages. Frank O’Hara
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. Flora Lewis
A different language is a different vision of life. Federico Fellini
Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different. Devendra Banhart
I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that’s not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood. David Levithan
Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists. David Finkelstein
Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages. David Bezmozgis