“And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders: humans, big things, small things, collectives, and liquids. Bantu languages such as Swahili have up to ten genders, and the Australian language Ngan’gityemerri is said to have fifteen different genders, which include, among others, masculine human, feminine human, canines, non-canine animals, vegetables, drinks, and two different genders for spears (depending on size and material).” HumansSaidTwoDifferentBigsLanguageAnimalFiveMaterialsDrinkTenSizeGenderCollectivesFeminineDividesVegetablesFifteenBig ThingsMasculineSmall ThingsAustralianLiquidSpearsCanineNounsMali Author:Guy Deutscher
“Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.” RealBodyLanguageRealizingFictionFiveSixSenses Author:Bodhidharma
“Stay away from restaurants that have menus in five languages. Thats always a tourist trap. You want to eat where the locals eat.” WantLanguageFiveLocalsRestaurantsTrapsTouristsMenus Author:Curtis Stone
“When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for... getting attention is not a bad thing. And letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary what the facts are is not a bad thing.” PeopleThinkingYearsRunningLanguageRoomsAttentionKnownFiveFive YearsBad ThingsColorfulFive Year OldsRunning A Business Author:Brit Hume
“All mathematics is is a language that is well tuned, finely honed, to describe patterns; be it patterns in a star, which has five points that are regularly arranged, be it patterns in numbers like 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 that follow very regular progression.” WellsLanguageStarsNumbersFiveMathematicsPatternsProgression Author:Brian Greene
“Beauty is undefinable in language. It's something that you see when you see it, or you feel when you feel it, or you hear when you hear it. It usually encompasses all five of the senses. It can't exist without it being a somehow sensorial experience. But, I don't think it's quantifiable. Nothing is really quantifiable. Nothing is certain in love and friendship. We all try to understand these things.” ThinkingFeelsTryingCertainLanguageFiveSensesLove And Friendship Author:Colin Farrell
“I can fluently speak five languages: English, emoji, sexting, sarcasm and sass.” I CanSpeakLanguageFiveSarcasmSass Author:Tyler Oakley
“I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful in a very simple way with simple language - a few well chosen words that would take an intellectual five minutes to express. I like that.” WayWellsLanguageSimpleFiveMinutesIntellectualChosenTruthfulFive MinutesSimple WaysDaft Author:Steve Coogan
“Well, at the end of our movie Fireproof, we released a book that my brother Stephen and I wrote called The Love Dare. It was for couples. That book had a much larger impact than we expected. As a matter of fact, if I could use the term "overwhelmed," we were. The book went on to become a New York Times bestseller and sold over five-million copies and is now in 28 different countries and languages. So, we were blessed and just surprised at how well that did.” IfsWellsBookDifferentEndsCountryMatterFactsUseLanguageTermMillionsFiveNew YorkBrotherCoupleBlessedImpactDareExpectedMy BrotherIf I CouldCopiesOverwhelmedNew York TimesMatter Of FactDifferent CountriesLove Dare Author:Alex Kendrick
“Four. That's what I want you to remember. If you don't get your idea across in the first four minutes, you won't do it. Four sentences to a paragraph. Four letters to a word. The most important words in the English language all have four letters. Home. Love. Food. Land. Peace. . .I know peace has five letters, but any damn fool knows it should have four.” IfsKnowsWantShouldFirstsImportantIdeasHomeRememberLanguageFiveFourLandMinutesFoolLettersShould HaveSentencesDamnI Want YouEnglish LanguageParagraphFood LoveImportant Words Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don't see this as a good thing. The Chinese culture has survived for more than five thousand years in part because the Chinese have embraced the same language and culture. I hope I am wrong about this, and that the flame is still on beneath the great American melting pot. Americans need each other, and a house divided, no matter the color of its occupants, is still divided. And divided we all fall.” PeopleNeedsYearsStillsMatterFallCultureHouseLanguageFiveColorThousandDiversityGood ThingsCaughtCelebrateChineseFlamesNeglectPotDividedThousand YearsSurvivedCaught UpMeltingGreat AmericanMelting PotCommonalityChinese CultureHouse DividedCelebrating Diversity Author:Richard Paul Evans
“I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.” PeopleKnowsLanguageFiveComfortable Author:Bill Gates