Language Quotes (1519 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Stefan Zweig
„Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.“
― Stefan Zweig ―
Picture of quotation author Peter Zumthor
„In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.“
― Peter Zumthor ―
Picture of quotation author Ethan Zuckerman
„A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.“
― Ethan Zuckerman ―
Picture of quotation author Andrew Zuckerman
„The work that I feel is most authentically mine is the one that is my first reaction, the first thing that feels like the truth. In aggregate, those choices, those series of decisions, create your point of view, your visual language.“
Picture of quotation author George Zimmerman
„I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.“
Picture of quotation author Ziyi Zhang
„China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.“
― Ziyi Zhang ―
Picture of quotation author Zedd
„Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.“
― Zedd ―
Picture of quotation author Carlos Ruiz Zafon
„The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.“
Picture of quotation author Saul Zaentz
„Passion moves freely across borders, speaks every language, and flourishes in every culture. The movement of passion is the most gratifying satisfaction in any moviemaker's life.“
― Saul Zaentz ―
Picture of quotation author Ravi Zacharias
„Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.“
― Ravi Zacharias ―
Picture of quotation author Muhammad Yunus
„I believe terrorism cannot be won over by military action. Terrorism must be condemned in the strongest language. We must stand solidly against it, and find all the means to end it. We must address the root causes of terrorism to end it for all time to come.“
― Muhammad Yunus ―
Picture of quotation author Mosab Hassan Yousef
„Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.“
Picture of quotation author Thom Yorke
„I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.“
― Thom Yorke ―
Picture of quotation author Thom Yorke
„I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.“
― Thom Yorke ―
Picture of quotation author Zhang Yimou
„I must stick with Chinese language films.“
― Zhang Yimou ―
Picture of quotation author William Butler Yeats
„Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.“
Picture of quotation author Yanni
„I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.“
― Yanni ―
Picture of quotation author Lalu Prasad Yadav
„We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.“
Picture of quotation author will.i.am
„Hip-hop culture is probably one of the most powerful things to come out of America in a long time - everything from the music to the art to the dance to the language.“
― will.i.am ―
Picture of quotation author John Wycliffe
„The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.“
― John Wycliffe ―

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