Christopher Columbus Quotes

I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.

I love animals, but I don't want to talk to them. I'd rather be able to talk to other people on other continents and understand them.

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

I really wanted to speak English because I started touring the world, and I wanted to communicate with people directly.

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

I wouldn't say there are alliances at the pageant, but I understand if you can't speak the language, you would want to hang out with someone who understands you.

Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialog, there will be some communication, and I am quite certain that then there will be some understanding.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.

I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.

I say the same thing that I've said for decades now, which is: don't go over to Japan trying to change it, thinking that you know better. Go there trying to understand.

I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language.

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.

And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.

I want my words to survive translation.

It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

A common language is a first step towards communication across cultural boundaries.

National culture can act as a bridge, instead of an obstacle, to mutual spiritual and intellectual understanding.

'Translations Through Speakers' was literally, I'm translating very spottily what my aspirations are.

I face no problem in communicating with the people of Orissa whom I meet everyday.

Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language.

The people of the two nations, French and English, must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.

We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.

Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and when we speak their grammar we get feathers in our mouth. It's worth it. What pleasure to phrase an idea, even in child's words, slowly, and sail it across the gulf in another language to a different-speaking human being!