Shanghai Foreign Language

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

    “There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    “It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.”
    —Jules Furthman (1888–1960)

    “Meanwhile I, deserted, was lamenting a little to myself your long delays in foreign loves, until sleep with its pleasing wings compelled me, fallen.”
    —Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)

    “Now stamp the Lord’s Prayer on a grain of rice,
    A Bible-leaved of all the written woods
    Strip to this tree: a rocking alphabet,
    Genesis in the root, the scarecrow word,
    And one light’s language in the book of trees.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)