Languages Generally

Famous quotes containing the words languages and/or generally:

    Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
    —J.G. (James Graham)

    Kasper Gutman: You’re a closemouthed man?
    Sam Spade: Un, un. I like to talk.
    Gutman: Better and better. I distrust a closemouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking is something you can’t do judiciously unless you keep in practice.
    John Huston (1906–1987)