Anne Rice Quotes

I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.

I wanted to get the most broad foundation for a lifelong education that I could find, and that was studying Latin and the classics. Meaning Roman and Greek history and philosophy and ancient civilizations.

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

Well, I'm trained as a classicist, so I like to read the Greeks and Romans.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible.

I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to do that you had to study linguistics, and so that was my initial exposure to linguistics.

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.

Study a foreign language if you have opportunity to do so. You may never be called to a land where that language is spoken, but the study will have given you a better understanding of your own tongue or of another tongue you may be asked to acquire.

I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The books are accurate enough that they can serve as a gateway to Homer and Virgil.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

At the age of 25, I gave up my study of Japanese language and culture at university in Brisbane and moved to the town of Alice Springs.

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

After years of studying French in school, one of my professors said he'd really appreciate it if I didn't take any more French.

I'm trying to work on my Spanish.

I like learning. I've been studying Japanese for years now, but it's really hard.

So Mandarin, I picked it up, I spent a year in Beijing studying but then when you don't use it, languages, you just kinda forget it all.

I'm studying Finnish, and it's one of the five most difficult languages in the world. And the more I learn, the more I realize that's definitely true.

When I was In high school, I became interested in Greek mythology. I had to know all about the exact dates of all the history.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them