Arabic Quotes

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
Brian Eno

Music, Feeling, Ready

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.
James Buchan

Great, Country, Free

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.
Stevie Wonder

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
Vince Cable

Future, Job, Saying

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.
Naguib Mahfouz

Seems, Works, Effect

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

Language, Themes, Liberties

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.
Alexei Sayle

Work, Politics, Nice

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.
Joe Strummer

Good, Book, Thinking

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.
June Jordan

Travel, Country, Two

It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues.
Geraldine Brooks

Good, Great, Live

I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.
Shakira

Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.
Martin Amis

Past, Books, Spanish

'Khalifa' is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name.
Wiz Khalifa

Leader, Light, Means

Everybody needs to understand that I learned Arabic from the United States Army as a second language. I never spoke it at home.
John Abizaid

Home, Understand, Learned

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling.
John Abizaid

Good, Feeling, Understand

Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of American high school students study the critical foreign languages of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian, combined.
Cathy McMorris

Science, School, Study

I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.
Timbaland

Music, Care, Might

I've got Arabic music in my blood.
Stewart Copeland

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.
Hakeem Olajuwon

Beautiful, Strong, Sometimes

A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.
Nadine Labaki

Country, Small, Impossible

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.
Isaac Albeniz

Beauty, Art, Seems

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.
John Walker Lindh

English, Months, Speaking

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Arabic Definition

Joseph Hall

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us