Foreign Language Exams

Famous quotes containing the words foreign, language and/or exams:

    It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the rollercoaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
    Carson McCullers (1917–1967)

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    Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    I know that if I’d had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn’t have got anywhere. You don’t take exams for acting, you take your courage.
    Dame Edith Evans (1888–1976)