Language Studies Quotes

For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.

Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.

I was an English major in college!

Knowing Latin and having two years of Attic Greek gave me the strong foundation upon which I've built a career. I think the classical training, more than anything, has provided me with longevity.

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

[Degree in English] gave me a little more self-confidence, to know that I'd managed to complete something like that.

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

The study of gender and language might seem at first to be a narrowly focused field, but it is actually as interdisciplinary as they come.

One of the first studies in the field of gender and language, by Don H. Zimmerman and Candace West in 1975, found that in casual conversations between women and men, women were interrupted far more often.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

Japanese is a very difficult language.

I'm the kind of person that wants to analyze and I think having a background in, strangely enough, in like literature and languages, I'm always analyzing things.

People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!

It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.

I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

I was at Edinburgh doing history of art, Spanish and Arabic. I was originally supposed to do Italian instead of Arabic but when I went to see one of the lecturers they told me I should really do something more curveball. So I did.

I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.

I honor English majors. It's a dumb thing to major in. It leads nowhere. It's good to be dumb, it allows us to love something for no reason. That's the best kind of love.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

Sanskrit language and the subjects in Sanskrit are both vital alike.

I've wanted to be an author as long as I can remember. English was always my favorite subject at school, so why I went on to do a degree in French is anyone's guess.