Education Quote by Jeffery Deaver

“He grew interested in words as a means of communicating thoughts and feelings, and majored in linguistics in college.”

— Shion Miura

“Now didn't I warn you, just a little while ago: arithmetic leads to philology, and philology leads to crime . . .”

— Eugène Ionesco

“The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.”

— Greg Carlson

“I wanted to study them all; obviously, not as a specialist, but still rigorously, working directly from texts, because I have a horror of…

— Mircea Eliade

“She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.”

— John Green

“I was by no means a scholar, simply an interested reader with nothing to do but live and learn.”

— Louis L'Amour

“Academic writing was actually about hiding what you didn’t know. There was a language, a technique, and I had mastered it. In everything there…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“His expression is an open book to me, because I took the time to learn the language many years ago.”

— Cristin Terrill

“Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists,…

— Russ Rymer

“In this way, the labor of learning was very considerably lightened, and everyone came to know a few words of each language. Occasionally we…

— Johann David Wyss

“After the war, I went to the University of Chicago, where I was pleased to study anthropology, a science that was mostly poetry, that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I watch James's face. His expression is an open book to me, because I took the time to learn the language many years ago.”

— Cristin Terrill