“I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.” WellsEnoughSpeakLanguageWishDifficultCoupleSpokesDifficult Things Author:Jodie Foster
“I grew up speaking Spanish and English. My mother can speak Spanish, English, French and Italian, and she's pretty good at faking Portuguese. I wish that I spoke more languages than I do.” MotherSpeakLanguageWishGrewGrew UpSpokesItalianPortugueseSpanish And EnglishSpeaking Spanish Author:Sebastian Arcelus
“I learned American Sign Language in college and seemed to pick it up rather quickly. I really love to sign and wish that I had more friends to sign with.” LanguageWishCollegePicksSign Language Author:Candace Kita
“Which I wish to remark-- And my language is plain,-- That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar.” WayLanguageWishDarkTricksVainDeceitPeculiarRemarksHeathen Author:Bret Harte
“I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.” IfsWantFeelsLanguageWishWaterSeaPerfectionLionsFoundersMonkeysSpidersSealsSlipping Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“In very clear and available language, this book details how to recognize the inner critic and how to deal effectively with it. Byron Brown's presentation is useful for any individual who wishes to be free from the inner suffering and coercion of this ancient foe of our humanity, but it is specifically directed to those interested and engaged in the inner journey toward realization and enlightenment.” BookSufferingHumanityIndividualLanguageWishDealsClearJourneyEnlightenmentCriticsAncientDetailsAvailableRealizationEngagedBrownFoePresentationCoercionInner JourneyByron Author:A. H. Almaas
“Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It may take the form of human language or it may never be uttered at all; still it is a prayer, if God only hears it in the secret recess of the heart.” IfsHumansHeartMayMeanStillsFormLanguageWishFeltPrayerSecretLongingRecessHuman Language Author:Keshub Chandra Sen
“I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a little of it is like manure to the soil of the mind, and makes it bear finer flowers.” MindMayLittlesIdeasLanguageWishFlowerBearsGreekSoilManure Book:Memoir and Letters Source: Memoir and Letters
“Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.” KnowsCountryLanguageWishEasyStudyTeacherTeachingBreatheBoatAtmosphereAcquireNativeDominantThoroughBest TeacherMinersMoats Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.” FirstsLooksLongHas BeensRealityPastSpeakLanguageWishPhotographyFirst TimeImpressionPast Experiences Author:Ernst Haas
“Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.” WritingWellsEnoughLanguageWishPracticeSpeechToughLettersConstantComplexesCrayon Author:David Remnick
“The hypothesis I wish to advance is thatthe language of morality is ingrave disorder.... What we possess, if this is true, are the fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts of which now lack those contexts from which their significance derived. We possess indeed simulacra of morality, we continue to use many of the key expressions. But we have--very largely if not entirely--lost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, of morality.” IfsUseLostLanguageWishExpressionKeysMoralityPracticalsSignificanceDisorderSchemesHypothesisFragmentsTheoreticalComprehension Author:Alasdair MacIntyre
“Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp and quarrel and criticize, but as one who wishes to be informed and furnished in the earliest and most wonderful of all literary productions. The literature of the Bible should be studied as one studies Shakespeare, for illustration and language, for its true pictures of man and woman nature, for its early historical record.” MenShouldHas BeensChristianSpiritualReadingLiteratureLanguageWishStudyRecordsWonderfulBibleMen And WomenHistoricalProductionsEtcSundayCriticizeInstructionConsolationQuarrelsGenesisIllustrationCarp Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.” IfsLanguageWishAbilityConnectionsBritishConceptionSevereEnglish LanguageEnglishmenDominion Author:Mahatma Gandhi