Foreign Language Film

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

    “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)

    “Don’t use that foreign word “ideals.” We have that excellent native word “lies.””
    —Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)

    “It is silly to call fat people “gravitationally challenged”Ma self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.”
    —Terry Eagleton (b. 1943)

    “Lay not that flattering unction to your soul,
    That not your trespass but my madness speaks;
    It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,
    Whilst rank corruption, mining all within,
    Infects unseen.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)