A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.

- David Crystal

I would like to speak 10 languages.

- Leon Redbone

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

I have a good ear for languages.

- Harry Dean Stanton

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

- Harold Bloom

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

- Fred Frith

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

- E. V. Lucas

I feel that working now is the way for me to learn things, whether it's languages or another activity.

- Elena Roger

I had a quick ear and could pick up languages.

- Diane Cilento

In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.

- Alan Perlis

I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.

- Daryl Hall

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

- Chris Marker

Shakespeare is repeated around the world in different languages, just because it's good storytelling.

- Cary Fukunaga

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

- Bill Hayden

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

- Benjamin Whorf

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining.

- Bjarne Stroustrup

I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar.

- Andy Lau

I can speak English. I can speak Hindi. I can understand one or two other languages.

- Azim Premji

I was very adept at acquiring languages.

- Anna Held